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1972–1996 1996-1997 1997-2009 2009-2010
1972–1996 1996-1997 1997-2009 2009-2010
2011-2016 2016–2021 2021–2024 2024–present
2011-2016 2016–2021 2021–2024 2024–present

1972–1996

KOCE 1972-1999
Designer:  Unknown
Typography:  Microgramma Bold
Launched:  November 20, 1972

KOCE-TV first signed on the air on November 20, 1972, as the first television station licensed to Orange County, initially airing four hours of programming per day. It broadcast its first telecourse in 1973. It was originally owned by the Coast Community College District. The station was originally based in studios at Golden West College in Huntington Beach. For most of its history, KOCE-TV was a "beta" or secondary PBS station, airing only 25 percent of the national PBS schedule.

1996-1997

KOCE1996
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1997-2009

KOCE logo 00s

2009–2010

KOCE PBS

2011–2016

PBS SoCal Orange

KOCE became the Los Angeles market's primary PBS station on New Year's Day 2011, when the area's longtime original primary member station of the network, KCET (channel 28), ended its association with PBS after 40 years due to an increase in costs to carry PBS programming—leading to its switch to an independent public television station.

2016–2021

KOCE

On April 25, 2018, KCETLink Media Group (KCET's owners) and the KOCE-TV Foundation announced that they would merge, effective by the end of the first half of 2018. KOCE remains Los Angeles's primary PBS station but relocated its operations to KCET's facility in Burbank (maintaining its Costa Mesa location as a secondary facility). The two stations continue to carry their existing programming, but KCET returned to PBS.

2021–present

2021–2024

KOCE 2021
Designer:  AREA 17
Typography:  PBS Sans
Launched:  January 19, 2021

2024–present

KOCE 2024
Designer:  AREA 17
Typography:  PBS Sans
Launched:  February 6, 2024

On February 6, 2024, the color of the "SoCal" text changed from orange to magenta, coinciding with the consolidation of KCET under the PBS SoCal brand the same day.

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