Rainey agrees: KCET needs to up its game

Jim Rainey's media column in the weekend LAT agrees with my KCRW column from a week ago that KCET needs to come up with kick-ass programming — and fast — to give the station's newly declared independence a chance. He seems to express surprise that KCET's chief executive Al Jerome will guide the effort: the station's "board is launching this revolution without the guidance of any known revolutionaries." Also an interesting comment from KOCE Chief Executive Mel Rogers, whose station figures to pick up a lot of KCET's PBS programs, viewers and members: "I frankly have a hard time seeing what the upside is for KCET, doing what they did."

LA Sketchbook: Steve Greenberg's take on the KCET situation.