hello, and welcome to kqed newsroom. tonight and next friday we will share with you the final two newscasts of kqed newsroom. for 55 years, kqed has cover the bay area's defining moments. we have hosted in-depth discussions with newsmakers including elected officials and politicians, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs. our journalists have delivered important news from our times here in the bay area, across california and from the nation's capital but our television audiences changing and kqed has made the difficult decision to end this program. we are, however, going out with úa bang. starting with tonight's show and concluding with next friday night's finale, we are going on a retrospective journey of our television coverage from the 1960s to the present. tonight we will cover the first three decades of the show's history -- the 60s, 70s, and 80s. let's start with a newscast from our very first season of the show in 1968. this episode was born from a newspaper strike at the san frncisco chronicle. the reporters cou

a movement called, me too. >>> welcome to kqed newsroom.llywood has been asked to take a hard look after harvey weinstein's scandal. overnight, women of hollywood and elsewhere have gone a social media to share their stories of sexual harassmnt and abuse. this week, women in california politics joined, saying, enough. more than 140 women in state politics from staffers to elected officials, signed a open letter to what they call sexual harassment in the halls of government. >> there is the hashtag, me too, i think it should be, who not? women experience this not only in state capitals, workplaces, campuses, everywhere. we have some decent laws, but the consequences to the perpetrator are not enough. they have not served as a deterrent. until the perpetrator really experiences a consequence that is a loss of status, or some legal consequence, other than a payout that is confidential, we will not see this change. >>> we have arrived now at the 2020s. kicked off unanticipated and unprecedented local pandemic. covid. the world health organizati

here is kqed's president and ceo with more. >> i am president and ceo of kqed. than five decades , from the pioneering nightly news program, newspaper of the year in the late 60s, to the 90s and the weekly series this week in northern california posted by the bay area icon until 2012. then to "kqed newsroom" with the tweed for you and now synthesia who has carried , priya david clemens was carried the host baton. the last episode will be on june 23rd. >> there will be no increase in taxes. >> this series in all its forms has been a source for in-depth the substantiative interviews with regional, state, and national newsmakers and journalists. we've been with you for some of the most portant bay area moments from the free speech movement of the 60s, to the assassinations of harvey milk and mayor george moscone in the 70s. keeping you informed and save through the pandemic and wildfires, and prepared as you cast your vote during elections. we honor the historical significance of "kqed newsroom," and we will maintain our commitment to providing local and national n

. >> here is a nice lineup on kqed, made possible by your support. >>> tonighton, kqed newsroom, we willt of our retrospective journey. 55 years of bringing you the news on television. coming to you from kqed headquarters in san francisco, this friday, june 23rd, 2023. >>> welcome to the series finale of the show. i am your host, and we are continuing our journey through kqed nearly 60 years of television news coverage . tonight, kqed newsroom comes to an end. thank you for joining us for this final show. last week, we walked through the most notable events impacting the greater bay ar

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i wanted to talk about some very good reporting from mission local, uh recently and then from kqed. which reported that the san francisco public library eureka valley harvey milk branch had cut off wifi after hours in an attempt to put put forward by the neighbors and their supervisor, ms mandal men. that this would presumably, uh basically discouraged or get rid of homeless in the neighborhood. 16 complaints. apparently um, it's unfortunate that when you fund as supervisors service, there's an expectation that it's following well in the case of the library, what it says it's going to do, which is their lovely slogan of free and equal access. well it's not free and equal access when only one branch is cutting off a service at the library has touted as valuable for everybody and certainly including homeless, although not just this cut off happened despite the libraries on study that there was no correlation between wifi and any kind of crime in the neighborhood causal relationship and that there were 526 unique users during their test period that we're using after hours wifi you're c

i wanted to talk about some very good reporting from mission local, uh recently and then from kqed. which reported that the san francisco public library eureka valley harvey milk branch had cut off wifi after hours in an attempt to put put forward by the neighbors and their supervisor, ms mandal men. that this would presumably, uh basically discouraged or get rid of homeless in the neighborhood. 16 complaints. apparently um, it's unfortunate that when you fund as supervisors service, there's an expectation that it's following well in the case of the library, what it says it's going to do, which is their lovely slogan of free and equal access. well it's not free and equal access when only one branch is cutting off a service at the library has touted as valuable for everybody and certainly including homeless, although not just this cut off happened despite the libraries on study that there was no correlation between wifi and any kind of crime in the neighborhood causal relationship and that there were 526 unique users during their test period that we're using after hours wifi you're c

i wanted to talk about some very good reporting from mission local, uh recently and then from kqed. which reported that the san francisco public library eureka valley harvey milk branch had cut off wifi after hours in an attempt to put put forward by the neighbors and their supervisor, ms mandal men. that this would presumably, uh basically discouraged or get rid of homeless in the neighborhood. 16 complaints. apparently um, it's unfortunate that when you fund as supervisors service, there's an expectation that it's following well in the case of the library, what it says it's going to do, which is their lovely slogan of free and equal access. well it's not free and equal access when only one branch is cutting off a service at the library has touted as valuable for everybody and certainly including homeless, although not just this cut off happened despite the libraries on study that there was no correlation between wifi and any kind of crime in the neighborhood causal relationship and that there were 526 unique users during their test period that we're using after hours wifi you're c