SoCal Connected is KCET's award-winning signature news series. This half-hour local news magazine offers viewers substantive, in-depth reporting on vital issues that impact Southern Californians.
Since its debut in September 2008, SoCal Connected has been honored with prestigious journalism awards, including six L.A. Area Emmy Awards, eight Golden Mikes and a George Foster Peabody Award.
The show airs four times a week: Thursday at 8pm, Friday at 8:30pm, Saturday at 6pm, and Sunday at 6:30pm.
Bret Marcus - Executive Producer
Bret Marcus has won 13 Emmys, three Columbia duPont awards, and one Peabody award. He has produced California Connected, California at War and Global Watch for KCET, where he is also Senior Vice President for Programming and Production. Marcus has also worked at ABC, NBC, MSNBC and CNBC.
Val Zavala - Anchor
Val has won 14 L.A. Area Emmys and 8 Golden Mikes. At KCET since 1987, she was an anchor, reporter and executive producer for Life & Times. In 1992 Val was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She holds a Masters from American University in Washington, D. C., and a B.A. from Yale.
Mary Mazur
Executive Producer
Bret Marcus
Senior Producer
Justine Schmidt
Anchored and Directed by
Val Zavala
Story Editor
Peggy Holter
Broadcast Producer
Kathryn Keeney
Producers
Karen Foshay
Saul Gonzalez
Angela Shelley
Rick Wilkinson
Production Supervisor
Alexandre Hatlestad-Shey
Unit Manager
Bettina Bennewitz
Associate Producers
Alexandria Gales
Lata Pandya
New Media Editor
Brian Frank
New Media Producers
Gary Dauphin
Richie Duchon
Jason Bazalar
Melissa Slemin
Production Assistant
Rocio Zamora
Editors
Alberto Arce
Michael Bloecher
On-Line Editor
Sally Benson
Motion Graphics
Robert Vega
Rama Kolesnikow
Camera
Ken Butler
Dan Caston
Tom Drew
Doug Froebe
Kenny Gioseffi
Al Lopez
Tom Tanquaray
Sound
Tom Ancell
Hing Ng
Pete Plumley
Assistant to Bret Marcus
Amanda Martin
Studio Makeup
White Simon
Wardrobe
Jane Mannfolk
Vice President of Engineering
Gordon Bell
Engineering Supervisor
Roger Terracina
Media Manager
Margie Beeson
Legal Counsel
Susan Reardon
June M. Baldwin
Rights and Clearances
Yvonne Johnson
SoCal Connected would not have been possible without the generous support of our funders.
Questions, comments, story ideas? Send us an E-mail at socalconnected@kcet.org.
Upcoming Shows
Thu, Oct 21, 2010 - 2:30 PM - KCET-DC
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 - 8:30 PM - KCET
Sat, Oct 23, 2010 - 6:00 PM - KCET
Thu, Oct 28, 2010 - 2:30 PM - KCET-DC
Thu, Oct 28, 2010 - 2:30 PM - KCET-OC
Fri, Oct 29, 2010 - 8:30 PM - KCET
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