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How Bill Alexander (a.k.a. "The Happy Painter") brought "The Magic of Oil Painting" to KOCE's audiences.
Here’s a blast from the past: the logs from our very first day on the air, including our first show (an episode of "The Electric Company").
Upon KOCE's 50th anniversary, here's a vintage video of a classic pledge break from the late 1990s.
According to our 1974 Viewer Guide, dramas have always been a priority in the programming of KOCE.
On May 1, 1974, KOCE broadcast Skylab 4: The Final Manned Mission — including an interview with the only astronaut to have led a strike, or as some call it, a mutiny, in space.
How was KOCE received when it was just a nascent station?Thanks to the L.A. Public Library’s digital archives, we didn’t have to search too far to find an…
In the year of the first KOCE broadcast — now 50 years ago — many buildings popped up around the Los Angeles area, including a landmark design by architect William Pereira.
In this clip from "The Changing Face of Television," a special that ran from the show Voter's Pipeline, host Matt Cooper asks what cable television will mean for the future of TV viewing.
![Santa Monica Cycle Path By Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://kcet.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/825f45a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1024x576+0+120/resize/1408x792!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkcet-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F07%2FSanta_Monica_Cycle_Path_on_Washington_Boulevard_at_Western_Avenue_looking_west_Los_Angeles_June_1900_CHS-6413.jpg)
As PBS SoCal (formerly known as KOCE) celebrates its 50th anniversary, here's a look back at another milestone of 1972 — the opening of the South Bay Bike Trail — and what its place was in the history of bicycling in SoCal.
Before the radio call sign KOCE was assigned to PBS SoCal, it was associated with a Coast Guard vessel.
Here's one of KOCE's past station sign-on logos, which was often used in between programs as station identification, as well as proceeding locally produced programs — back when our station only served Orange County from Huntington Beach.
Then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was among the first people to publicly welcome KOCE TV to the airwaves.