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The Television Academy revealed the nominations for the 77th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, recognizing 111 nominees across 31 categories that spotlight the best in locally produced television, from arts and culture to crime, environment and public affairs.

The awards will be presented Saturday, July 26, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be hosted by Kelvin Washington, anchor and host for Spectrum News 1.

The Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards celebrate excellence in programming produced for the Los Angeles region.

Among this year’s nominees are several standout programs from PBS SoCal, Kmex-tv, KTLA5, Kvea, ABC7, and others that highlight Southern California’s diverse storytelling and journalism.

The full list of nominees are below.

News and Programming

“L.A. Local Color”

“Arts & Architecture: The Case Study House Program” (“Artbound”)

• PBS SoCal

Tamara Gould, Executive Producer

Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer

Nic Cha Kim, Producer

Corbett Jones, Director, Director of Photography,...

The Television Academy today revealed the nominees for its 77th annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, which honor locally produced programs in the categories of Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History, the Arts, Human Interest, Sports, the Environment, and Live and Breaking News Coverage. See the full list below.

Kelvin Washington, host and anchor for Spectrum News 1 in Los Angeles, will host the ceremony on July 26 at the Skirball Cultural center.

Here are the nominees for the 2025 Los Angeles Area Emmys:

News And Programming

L.A. Local Color

Arts & Architecture: The Case Study House Program (Artbound)

• PBS SoCal

Tamara Gould, Executive Producer Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer Nic Cha Kim, Producer

Corbett Jones, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer Anna Rau, Director, Producer

Ryan Carmody, Director of Photography Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer

Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer

County Critters: LA County’s Animal Workforce Reports for Duty...

Longtime Ktla entertainment anchor Sam Rubin, who died earlier this year, received the 76th Los Angeles Area Emmy Governors Award on Saturday night, given posthumously to recognize his “legacy of more than three decades of entertainment news reporting for Ktla.”

Rubin also won an Emmy in the entertainment news category, for his “Ktla Morning News” coverage of the SAG-AFTRA strike last year.

Overall, pubcaster Kcet (which now calls itself “PBS SoCal Plus”) dominated with ten wins, including in categories such as culture/history (“Legacy 10 Days In Watts”), L.A. local color (“Angel City Press: L.A. Through the Pages — Artbound”), independent programming (“Everybody Dance”), crime/social issues (“Bonnie Boswell Presents: Saving Moms”) and more.

The main newscast awards at the 76th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards were split. Unlike last year, when Kvea won all three, this year the prizes were mixed. Spectrum News 1’s “Your Morning on...

Kcet and local Southern California PBS stations are set to be consolidated into one name: PBS SoCal.

Though the Los Angeles-based public broadcaster Kcet will still exist, it will be referred to as “PBS SoCal Plus,” so that both PBS flagship broadcast stations will be under one unified brand starting Feb. 6.

The broadcaster noted that Kcet programming will not change.

“PBS SoCal and Kcet merged in 2018, and since then, we have grown into a strong public media entity serving Southern California that reflects the diversity of our region and provides a full schedule of beloved and trusted PBS programs,” PBS SoCal president and CEO Andrew Russell said in a statement. “While the broadcast channel name may be changing, the programs that viewers love on Kcet — Artbound, Lost LA, Father Brown, Must See Movies and more — will remain available on the channel and across all of our platforms.”

He continued, “Our honored tradition,...

“Kcet” is infinitely no more. Well, sort of. The Los Angeles-based public broadcaster still exists, and “Kcet” remains its legal call letters. But effective Tuesday, Feb. 6, the station will start branding itself on air as “PBS SoCal Plus.” That brings it further in line with its sister station PBS SoCal (Koce-tv), with which it merged in 2018.

Beyond that, the programming mix won’t change, but there will be further program sharing behind both outlets under the unified brand. According to the public broadcaster, the brand unification is meant to stop any confusion that may still exist between PBS SoCal and Kcet now that they are operated under one roof. The two stations have already merged their two websites into one, under the PBS SoCal name — and now they will operate in tandem under that one name everywhere else too.

Dan Ferguson, PBS SoCal’s senior VP of marketing and communication,...

Public broadcaster Kcet — part of a PBS duopoly with Koce “PBS SoCal” — is back on top at the Los Angeles Area Emmys. Thanks to locally produced series like “Artbound” and “Broken Bread,” Kcet dominated the L.A. area Emmy nominations, announced Tuesday, with 24.

That’s a return to the top spot among nominees, and up from 15 last year. Cable news outlet Spectrum News 1, which dominated last year’s Emmy nominations, was down to 14 this year (vs. 23 in 2022) — still good enough for third place.

Meanwhile, Telemundo outlet Kvea (part of a duopoly with NBC-owned Knbc) saw a huge surge as well, with 20 nominations — up from just 8 last year. That meant Kvea was not only tops with Spanish outlets, but it was also tops with all commercial broadcasters. That includes its sibling NBC4, just posted just two nominations.

As usual, all stations that enter are immediately nominated in the daily morning newscast (4 a.

Kcet's documentary series Artbound is kicking off its 13th season with a celebration of one of the most influential comic books of the 1980s alternative movement — Love & Rockets. For its 40th anniversary, the comic will be the center of a new episode titled Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book which looks at the work of the Hernandez Brothers over the years as they've showcased diverse stories for audiences worldwide and constantly evolved their writing over the years to meet the times. The episode premieres on Southern California's flagship PBS station Kcet first on October 5 before reaching PBS SoCal on October 7 and Link TV on October 11.