1983
Pasadena’s local access organization begins its work as a nonprofit public benefit corporation supporting public service programming and local access channels.
About the station
Pasadena Media is the nonprofit community media organization serving Pasadena, California, a San Gabriel Valley city northeast of Los Angeles known as the home of the Rose Bowl and Caltech, operating under the name Pasadena Community Access Corporation and providing PEG access television since its formation in 1983.
Pasadena Media operates four television channels - KPAS (government programming), Arroyo (public access), KLRN (educational programming through Pasadena City College), and PCC-TV - and produces original programming including Arroyo Live, Pasadena Media News, NewsRap, Access For All, and What's Up Pasadena!, covering City Council meetings and a broad range of community content. The organization is a municipal operating company of the City of Pasadena and maintains studios at 150 S. Los Robles Ave.
Pasadena residents - in a city with remarkable cultural institutions, a world-class research university, and a diverse community stretching from the historic Craftsman neighborhoods of the Arroyo Seco to northwest Pasadena - rely on Pasadena Media for the government transparency and community programming that gives the full range of Pasadena voices a local television presence.
Station History
Milestones, transitions, and community moments from Pasadena Media’s story.
2010s
The organization becomes known publicly as Pasadena Media and continues operating Pasadena’s public, education, government, and community access channels.
Today
Pasadena Media oversees KPAS, Arroyo, KLRN, and PCC TV while operating a community media training center and television studio.
Now
Pasadena Media remains part of how residents follow city government, school and college programming, community conversations, local events, and San Gabriel Valley stories.
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