Ken Kramer
Creator/Producer/Host of "Ken Kramer's About San Diego"Ken Kramer is the creator, producer, and host of Ken Kramer’s About San Diego. For more than three decades, the series has presented stories of the people and places that define our home county. Ken Kramer’s About San Diego has been honored with numerous Emmy and Golden Mike Awards, as well as recognition from teachers' groups, Save Our Heritage Organisation, City of San Diego, San Diego Historical Society, Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club, Radio Festival New York, and The Voice of America. In proclaiming “Ken Kramer Day” in 2008, the County Board of Supervisors described the show as “…more valuable to San Diego History than any two or three of our local museums combined.” Ken is a fourth-generation native Californian who grew up in Pasadena, CA. He graduated from San Diego State University in 1974.
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Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV. Change swept Point Loma during the early part of the 20th Century. The Theosophical Society Leaders decided to move into what is now the Point Loma Nazarene University campus. Find out who Katherine Tingley was and learn about her impact on San Diego and the world from 1901-1925. -
Change swept Point Loma during the early part of the 20th Century. The Theosophical Society Leaders decided to move into what is now the Point Loma Nazarene University campus. Find out who Katherine Tingley was and learn about what impact she had on San Diego and the world from 1901-1925. Join host Elsa Sevilla as she visits the historical sites that are still standing today.
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European leaders held a high-stakes meeting Wednesday with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO's chief ahead of Friday's U.S.-Russia summit. -
Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV. We meet “The Betsy Ross of San Diego” who created a lasting tribute to San Diego County. We follow a oceanographic ritual that is unchanged in more than a century; learn the history of National City’s unique Row House, and go to the San Diego Public Library Downtown to see the smallest published book in the world and more! -
We meet “The Betsy Ross of San Diego” who created a lasting tribute to San Diego County. We follow an oceanographic ritual that is unchanged in more than a century; learn the history of National City’s unique Row House, and go to the San Diego Public Library Downtown to see the smallest published book in the world and more!
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Stream now with KPBS Passport / Watch Thursdays, Aug. 14 - 28, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV. World War II rages across the English Channel and Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle reluctantly remains on duty in his quiet English coastal town. The battle comes to Foyle in its own way as he probes war-related cases of murder, espionage, and treason with his driver Samantha "Sam" Stewart and Detective Sergeant Paul Milner.
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