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KCET (abbreviated "Community Educational Television") is a television station based in Los Angeles, California. For most of its existence, it was the primary PBS affiliate for the city since its founding in 1964 (six years prior to the switch from NET), and the second most-watched PBS station in the United States.

In 2011, due to poor financial results, KCET disaffiliated with PBS and became an independent station, the second largest at the time behind WNYE-TV in New York. In October 2019, KCET returned to PBS as a secondary affiliate for Los Angeles, sharing operations with the primary station KOCE-TV/PBS SoCal under a single holding company.