KOCE became the Los Angeles market's primary PBS station on January 1, 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.
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A fourth public television station serving the area, KCET (channel 28), ended its 40-year membership with PBS in 2010 and is currently the nation's largest independent public television station.
Kozler was born in Koče, a village south of Kočevje in Gottschee County, in what was then the Austrian Kingdom of Illyria, and is now Slovenia.
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Pancho's life was chronicled in an Emmy-winning 2009 documentary film for PBS station KOCE-TV, entitled The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club.
The Foundation has also given grants to Tarbut V' Torah, Chapman University, the Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA), the Ocean Institute, El Viento, THINK Together, Orangewood’s Guardian Scholar Program, KOCE, the Discovery Science Center and Hope University, all of which have a mission dedicated to improving the lives of others through education.