Ken Jones, a San Diego State professor, had the vision to create an educational radio station on campus. After several years of trying to get the project off the ground, he launches KEBS with a donated transmitter and a budget of about $6,000. Seven years later, on June 25, 1967 KPBS TV hits the airwaves– "The French Chef" featuring Julia Child is one of its first shows.
Both Ken Kramer and Gloria Penner begin working at KEBS in the late sixties; Kramer starts in ’68 as a student operator playing classical music, and Penner in ’69 as director of community relations. By the end of the decade, the station moves from a student run enterprise to a professional media organization with both a radio and television signal.
