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The station presently produces more than 700 hours of educational, informational, [[sport]]s and entertainment programming a year, including live telecourse instruction from the [[California State University]] system. It is one of five television stations licensed in the Los Angeles market that continue to utilize their original call signs, alongside [[KTLA]] (channel 5), [[KTTV]] (channel 11), KCET (channel 28) and [[KMEX-DT|KMEX-TV]] (channel 34).

Since 1984, KLCS has produced ''Homework Hotline''. Created by then General Manager Patricia Prescott-Marshall, Homework Hotline is a weekday after schoolafterschool call-in program where students receive homework help from LAUSD teachers and other faculty who appear on the show. In its first year, ''Homework Hotline'' was featured in a ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine article titled "Education: Help from the Hotline",<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951459,00.html "Education: Help from the Hotline"]</ref> and has won many Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards over the years, including two in 1986 for Best Instructional Program and Creative Technical Crafts.<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-05/entertainment/ca-3471_1_top-honors Linan, Steven, "KNBC and KHJ Take Top Honors in Local Emmys"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', 5 May 1986. Retrieved 2 September 2010.</ref>

Unlike most public television stations, KLCS neither holds an annual [[fundraiser|pledge drive]] nor broadcasts its programming in [[high-definition television|high definition]]. However, its website lists special premiums and discounts given to subscribers who support the station at various levels, including recognition on-air and in KLCS' monthly viewer magazine.<ref>[http://www.klcs.org/support.htm "Support KLCS"], from station website. Retrieved 31 August 2010.</ref> KLCS was slated to begin high definition broadcasting in the autumn of 2014, but still broadcasts in standard definition as of April 2015.

KLCS spends over half it's funds on salaries and employee benefits.

For a period of time, instead of broadcasting a 24-hour program schedule, KLCS [[sign-on and sign-off|signed off]] at the end of each broadcast day, ceasing programming on some or all of its four [[Digital subchannel|subchannels]] at either 1:00 or 2:00&nbsp;a.m. and resuming its schedule the next morning at either 5:00 or 6:00&nbsp;a.m. One subchannel may continue overnight programming, such as for [[Create (TV network)|Create]] programs or regular meetings of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, while the others have individually signed off. In lieu of a [[test card|test pattern]], a overnight-themed title card is aired reminding viewers to tune in the next morning when programming resumes. This made KLCS one of the largest television stations in the United States by market size to still have traditional sign-on and sign-off procedures.<ref>[http://www.klcs.org/tvschedule.htm "TV Schedules"], program schedule for all KLCS subchannels at station website. Retrieved 29 August 2010.</ref> KLCS has since resumed a 24-hour schedule. Its second digital subchannel also broadcasts 24 hours a day and is featured as part of [[DirecTV]]'s digital programming package.

RobinWhen GeeJanalyn Glymph retired, Sabrina Fair-Thomas became general manager in 2017July 2012 after being with the station for over 25 years. Partnering with the Idea To Reality development team led by Saul Davis and Joe Regis, KLCS debuted new station IDs in 2015 featuring Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Mark Walberg, Moby, Flea, and Joaquin Phoenix, as well as new station taglines including "Live Learn Love LA" and "KLCS - TV's Force For Good", and a few new programs. This new activity led to an Emmy nomination.

Thomas unexpectedly died on October 20, 2016.<ref>https://www.emmys.com/bios/sabrina-fair-thomas</ref>

==Programming==

National programming produced by KLCS includes the interview show ''Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick''.<ref>http://klcs.org/between-the-lines/ Between the Lines - KLCS]</ref><ref>[http://www.netaonline.org/search/SearchResults.aspx?t=Between%20the%20Lines%20With%20Barry%20Kibrick&l= Between the Lines With Barry Kibrick - Search Results]</ref>

==Digital television==