KLCS

KLCS

Los Angeles, California United States
Channels	Digital: 28 (UHF), shared with KCET Virtual: 58
Branding	KLCS Public Media PBS
Programming
Affiliations	58.1: PBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Los Angeles Unified School District
History
First air date	November 5, 1973 (50 years ago) (1973-11-05)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 58 (UHF, 1973–2009) Digital: 41 (UHF, 2003–2018)
Call sign meaning	Los Angeles City Schools
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	38430
ERP	155 kW 150 kW (CP)
HAAT	926.4 m (3,039 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	34°13′26″N 118°3′47″W / 34.22389°N 118.06306°W / 34.22389; -118.06306
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.klcs.org

KLCS (channel 58) is a tertiary PBS member television station in Los Angeles, California, United States. Owned by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), it is one of eight television stations in the U.S. that are operated by a local school system. KLCS' studios are located at the former Downtown Magnets High School campus on West Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.

KLCS is one of four PBS member stations in the Los Angeles market; the others are KVCR-DT (channel 24) in San Bernardino, which serves the Inland Empire; KOCE-TV (channel 50) in Huntington Beach; and KOCE-TV's sister station KCET (channel 28) in Los Angeles, which KOCE-TV replaced in 2011 as the city's primary PBS station. Since the spectrum auction in 2018, when KLCS sold its physical channel, it has been a guest on KCET's channel 28 signal. KLCS remains the fifth most-watched public television station in the country.