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SOCAL CONNECTED, victor of a Peabody® and two duPont Awards, 23 Emmy® Awards, 24 Golden Mikes, 48 LA Press Club Awards, two Gracie Awards, and four provincial and one national Edward R. Murrow Awards, including Best News Documentary and Los Angeles Magazine's "Best New Local TV Program" of 2009, show only on KCET. For more data, to view scenes on the web or to leave remarks, please visitwww.socalconnected.org. SOCAL CONNECTED is made conceivable through the liberal support of The Ahmanson Foundation, Chapman University and the MaddocksBrown Foundation.


On April 8, 2015, SOCAL CONNECTED, KCET's Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning arrangement, will air an uncommon, single-themed scene praising the way of life of perusing in the City of Angels enlivened by the up and coming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (April 18 and 19). To start with, Val Zavala visits the workplaces of the nation's fourth biggest daily paper with its fourteenth and most up to date distributer, Austin Beutner. He took control of the L.A. Times in August 2014 after a period of reductions and declining readership. Among different inquiries, Zavala gets some information about how he will confront these progressing challenges; how the paper is adjusting to the advanced age and regardless of whether daily papers can at present manage the cost of investigative revealing.

The current week's SOCAL CONNECTED likewise highlights:

Little Libraries on a Post - They are flying up in neighborhoods crosswise over Los Angeles: minimal free libraries that welcome individuals to take a book and leave a book. Correspondent Dija Dowling discovers from where they come, who fabricates them and in the event that they are working. She likewise meetsDavid L. Ulin, book faultfinder for the Los Angeles Times, to get his contemplations on the lost craft of perusing and this grass roots proficiency exertion.

From Gangbanger to Poet Laureate - By the time he was 13, he was running with groups and dependent on heroin. At age 16, he was sitting in a correctional facility cell and something changed. Columnist Jennifer Sabih profiles author Luis Rodriguez, as of late named the Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles. His smash hit journal, Always Running, propelled his profession and has helped many disturbed youth. Yet, can Rodriguez accomplish for his own particular child what he has accomplished for scores of other youngsters? In view of stories from KCET.org's Departures.

The Last Bookstore - It's not only a book shop, it's a visitor goal. Proprietor Josh Spencer changed over a stately bank into the biggest autonomous book shop in California, upgraded with workmanship establishments, a stroll through book burrow and an upstairs maze where book sweethearts can get lost. Columnist Nic Cha Kim takes us inside this exceptional scholarly condition.

Communicate Premiere Date: Wednesday, April 8 at 8 p.m.

Rehashed: Friday, April 10 at 8 p.m. what's more, Sunday, April 12 at 5:30 p.m.

SOCAL CONNECTED is secured by 16-time Emmy®-Award champ, Val Zavala. Supporters incorporate science columnist Cara Santa Maria, correspondents Derrick Shore, Jennifer Sabih, Conor Knighton, Dija Dowling, narrative movie producer Nic Cha Kim and author Nick Hardcastle.

The transmission official maker for SOCAL CONNECTED is Val Zavala; advanced official maker is Zach Behrens; and Linda Burns is senior maker.