SoCal Connected | KCET
"SoCal Connected" is KCET’s weekly award-winning news documentary series, presenting a mix of investigative reporting and richly textured narratives in a thoughtful and compelling way. Now in its 9th season, "Socal Connected" is the winner of nearly every major local and national journalism award, including a Walter Cronkite Award, a George Foster Peabody Award, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia silver batons, and 27 regional Emmy awards. "SoCal Connected" airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m.
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Jazz City
Season 9
For decades Los Angeles has lived in the shadows of New York and Chicago when it comes to the jazz, but that's now changing. LA's jazz scene is on the upswing. Meet the people, places and sounds that are putting LA jazz back on the map.
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It's Not Easy Being Green
Season 9
Chopped down trees, unspent money, building homes thirty feet from the freeway: Is the city of Los Angeles falling down on the job when it comes to certain environmental policies? Socal Connected investigates.
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The New Normal
Season 9
California's wildfires are more severe and deadlier than ever before. Debates are raging as to what to do, who will pay for billions of dollars in damage and what can be done to lessen the destruction as California adjusts to its new normal.
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Under the Influence
Influencers - they are powerful, persuasive, and they are everywhere. You may not know it, but you could be living under the influence.
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Heat
Season 9
How hot will your neighborhood get? "SoCal Connected" looks at the ground-level effects of climate change on southern California.
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Kamasi Washington and the West Coast Get Down have shone and international spotlight on jazz in Los Angeles. But the scene has a rich history dating back to Central Avenue and The World Stage in Leimert Park which have long been LA jazz institutions.
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Los Angeles educators are on strike, leaving elementary, middle and high schools without formal instruction until further notice.
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UTLA took to the streets in Downtown LA to protest the state of LAUSD. They are advocating for smaller classroom sizes and better resources like nurses and counselors.
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At John Marshall High School, students sat around the auditorium during the first day of the teacher's strike. Outside the school’s walls, the rain didn’t stop teachers from striking for better classroom conditions and resources for their students.
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Under the Influence
Influencers - they are powerful, persuasive, and they are everywhere. Marketers use them to reach you, to form what you buy, how you live, and what you do. You may not know it, but you could be living under the influence.
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The New Normal
Season 9
California's wildfires are more severe and deadlier than ever before. Debates are raging as to what to do, who will pay for billions of dollars in damage and what can be done to lessen the destruction as California adjusts to its new normal: year-around fire.
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2019-07-02T13:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2019-07-03T22:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2019-07-07T12:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
It's Not Easy Being Green
Season 9
Chopped down trees, unspent money, building homes thirty feet from the freeway: Is the city of Los Angeles falling down on the job when it comes to certain environmental policies? Socal Connected investigates.
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2019-07-09T13:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2019-07-09T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2019-07-10T22:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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Jazz City
Season 9
For decades Los Angeles has existed in the shadows of New York and Chicago when it comes to jazz, but that's now changing. L.A.'s jazz scene is on the upswing. Meet the people, places and sounds that are putting L.A. jazz back on the map.
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2019-07-16T13:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2019-07-17T22:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2019-07-20T05:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
The News Blues
Season 9
The LA Times may have found its savior in Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, but how will the other local newsrooms in LA be rescued? SoCal Connected reports on one of the craziest years for local news in Southern California. Premieres October 9th at 8:00pm.
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2019-07-23T13:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2019-07-24T22:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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Articles
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Officials at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Civilian Oversight Committee abruptly ended their meeting without discussing anything on the agenda when supporters of President Trump's policies clashed with members of Black Lives Matter and other groups.
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Federal immigration authorities are expected to begin sweeps in Los Angeles and elsewhere Sunday to arrest undocumented immigrants named in court-ordered deportation warrants.
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Measure EE needed a two-thirds majority to be approved but wasn't able to receive a majority of yes votes, losing 54.32%-45.68%, according to semiofficial results released today by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.
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According to the figures from this year's count, there are about 36,300 homeless people in Los Angeles, including those living on the streets or housed in some type of shelter.
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District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s Public Integrity Unit concluded that a vague meeting agenda item description that included no information about the Clippers basketball team, the stadium or the negotiations “did violate the (Ralph M. Brown) Act.”
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Newsom's May budget revision includes $1 billion to combat homelessness by increasing emergency aid for local jurisdictions, making money directly available to cities and counties and funding permanent supportive housing and other innovative approaches.
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SoCal Connected Special: The Way Home
On any given night, 47,000 men, women and children live on the streets of Los Angeles.
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Former child bride and self-proclaimed badass Laila works tirelessly inviting opium addicts in Afghanistan to the detox clinics she runs with her brother, himself a recovered addict.
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