Country United States Launch date 1974 | Official website KBEV Vimeo Availability Beverly Hills | |
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Type Student television station Slogan We Put the "K" in "Quality" | ||
KBEV is a student television station in Beverly Hills, California. The KBEV studios are located inside of Beverly Hills High School. KBEV is shown on Time Warner Cable Channel 6 in Beverly Hills.
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History
KBEV, originally called "Information Retrieval", was started in 1968 in a bungalow on the front lawn. An early form of programming-on-demand, audio and video content was transmitted over cables wired to the high school library and to select classrooms at the high school. Audio programs played on reel to reel tape were sent the elementary schools over telephone lines, rented from the phone company, to study carrels in the libraries at each of the schools. KBEV began active cable operations in 1974 with Theta Cable, whose successors were Group W Cable, Century Cable, Adelphia Cable, and currently Time Warner Cable.
Programming
Some of the shows and programming produced by KBEV are:
The Norman News
KBEV has a weekly news program, called the "Norman News." It is the longest running high-school news program.
BHUSD Board of Education Meetings
The Beverly Hills Unified School District Board of Education Meetings are filmed live by KBEV. They are streamed live here.