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KQED was best known in the late '60s and throughout the 1970s, as one of the very few public stations in the country to have its own nightly news show, originally known as ''Newsroom''. For many years, the show was anchored by Belva Davis, a pioneering African American broadcaster. ''Newsroom'' grew out of a 1968 newspaper strike in San Francisco. Journalists from the affected newspapers began reporting their stories on KQED. In 1980, the nightly news broadcast was cancelled and replaced with a documentary production unit, which thrived for over a decade, producing a series of local documentaries and some major national productions. The staff also regularly produced feature news stories for the ''MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour''.
In 1970, KQED inherited KNEW-TV (channel 32) from [[Metromedia]], but found they could not operate it without losing money. Various PBS and locally produced programs from KQED would air erratically and at different times of the day on KQEC. In 1988, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) revoked KQED's license to operate KQEC, citing excessive off-air time, further charging dishonesty in previous filings with regard to the specific reasons. The alleged dishonesty was in reference to KQED's claim of financial woes for keeping KQEC off the air for most of 1972 through 1977, and again for several months in 1979 and 1980. After being revoked from KQED's hands, the reassigned license was granted to the [[Minority Television Project]] (MTP), one of the challengers of the KQED/KQEC filing.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.current.org/ptv/ptv888kqed.shtml |title = FCC revokes license for San Francisco public TV station KQEC |publisher
During the early 1990s, when the state of California reintroduced the [[death penalty]], the KQED organization waged a legal battle for the right to televise the forthcoming [[Execution (legal)|execution]] of [[Robert Alton Harris]] at [[San Quentin]] State Prison.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/witness-to-an-execution/ |title = Witness to an execution |publisher = Indiana University School of Journalism |author = Michael Schwarz |date = |accessdate = 2007-01-17}}</ref> The decision to pursue the videotaping of executions was controversial amongst those on both sides of the [[capital punishment debate]].<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973102,00.html |title = The Ultimate Horror Show |publisher = TIME Magazine |author = Jill Smolowe |date = 3 June 1991 |accessdate = 2007-01-17}}</ref>
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KQED was co-producer of the television adaptation of [[Armistead Maupin]]'s novel, ''[[Tales of the City]]'', which aired on PBS stations nationwide in January 1994. The original six-part series was produced by [[United Kingdom|Britain]]'s [[Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom|public-service]] [[Channel 4]] Corporation with KQED and PBS' ''[[American Playhouse]]''. The six-part miniseries featured gay themes, nudity and illicit drug use in this fictional portrayal of life in 1970s San Francisco. Although the program gave PBS its highest ratings ever for a dramatic program, PBS bowed to threats of federal funding cuts and announced it would not participate in the television production of an adaptation of the second book in the series, ''[[More Tales of the City (novel)|More Tales of the City]]''. The film division of KQED was founded by [[Irving Saraf]].<ref name=thr>{{cite news |first=Mike|last=Barnes|title=Oscar-Winning Producer Irving Saraf Dies at 80 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscar-winning-producer-irving-saraf-407131 |work= [[The Hollywood Reporter]] |publisher= |date=2012-12-30 |accessdate=2013-01-15}}</ref>
The station started a school-age channel using some PBS shows plus syndicated show such as Zulu Patrol and Little Amadeus in 2003. KQED also became a [[Universal Kids|PBS Kids Sprout]] partner, which gave the station good will to get carriage on [[Xfinity|Comcast]]'s systems.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://current.org/files/archive-site/kids/kids0901multicast.shtml |title=Many stations packaging their own kids' channels |publisher=Originally published in Current |date=January 12, 2009 |author=Katy June-Friesen |accessdate=December 9, 2010 }}</ref>
KQED and KTEH merged. While broadcasting its own kids channel, the station intended to pick up the planned [[PBS Kids Go!]] when launched in October 2006. However, Kids Go was cancelled in July 2006 before broadcasting. Since the two station shared a market and public TV's digital carriage agreement with top cable operators required differentiation of the stations' services, Kids Go! was a way to do so.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Everhart|first1=Karen|title=PBS Kids Go! channel: plan is no-go for now
On November 11, 2010, KQED and NBR Worldwide, LLC, the owners of PBS business news program, the ''[[Nightly Business Report]]'', reached into an agreement to open a bureau in the Silicon Valley in order to enhance coverage of ''NBR''.<ref>[http://www.kqed.org/press/newsevents/assets/nightly-biz-report-pbs.pdf Press Release: PBS' Nightly Business Report Opens Silicon Valley Bureau]</ref>
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