KOCE

KOCE-TV Channel 50 is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service with programming focused on the communities of Orange County, California. It airs Orange County's only nightly newscast, Real Orange, with a concentration on human interest and public service stories.

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In 2002, KOCE's then-owner, the Coast Community College District, offered KOCE for sale in order to raise revenue for other programs. A bidding war ensued between Christian televangelists and members of ther community who wanted to continue membership with PBS. In 2004, the sale was finalized to the KOCE-TV Foundation, an organization made up of civic and business leaders who wanted to keep KOCE an educational station, for a bid price of $32 million ($8 million up front and the rest in 25 equal installments beginning in 2009. However, on June 23, 2005, the California Court of Appeals ruled that the sale of KOCE was illegal, since the offer was modified after the end of bidding and because the value of the bid was not expressed in net present value terms. KOCE plans to appeal this decision.

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