KEET: My Community's PBS Station

Brown Bag Lunch Online Presentation with David Gordon, Executive Director, KEET:

The executive director of Eureka's public television station KEET will provide a short history of KEET and the future of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).

KEET has a very proud history of being an important part of Humboldt life for over 55 years. It serves the local communities with trusted news and programs that inspire, respect, and educate its audience. KEET delivers this service through multiple outlets, including broadcast and digital media, while adapting to remain relevant in a rapidly changing world. KEET provides five distinct channels of programming: KEET-HD; PBS Kids; Create; FN/X (First Nations Experience); and World. These five channels include everything from Sesame Street to PBS News Hour. And there are local productions that viewers make possible, like the Telly Award-winning Addicts Among Us, Headline Humboldt, Studio Space, What's On Your Bucket List, Live from the Old Steeple, Searchlight Serenade, and so much more. That is the essence of what KEET does: It brings programs of cultural, musical, educational, and entertainment significance to people who would otherwise never see them.

Born in New Orleans, David Gordon has lived and worked all over the U.S. in a broadcasting career spanning six decades. He has served stations in Georgia, Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina, Louisiana, and now California. For the past eight years, he has been the executive director of KEET, which is his first television job; he previously worked in public radio for over 40 years.

The presentation will begin promptly at noon.

Presentations are held on the Zoom conferencing platform. Join this live presentation by clicking the button below. If you can't join us live, a video of this presentation will be available on the OLLI Youtube channel.

• See upcoming Brown Bag Lunch presentations.
• See past presentations in the Brown Bag Lunch archive on Youtube.

JOIN PRESENTATION