Cascade PBS

Cascade PBS is Seattle's independent, nonprofit PBS member organization. It operates KCTS 9 and KYVE 47, serving Western and Central Washington and British Columbia with PBS programming, local series, podcasts and community events.

Cascade PBS is an independent, nonprofit public media organization based in Seattle that serves audiences in Western and Central Washington and British Columbia. It delivers programming across broadcast, streaming, podcasting and live events, supported by more than 120,000 members in the western United States and Canada.

The organization operates KCTS-TV (channel 9), Seattle's PBS member station, on the air since December 1954, and KYVE (channel 47) in Yakima, which has served Central Washington since 1962 and joined KCTS in 1994. KCTS was founded by the University of Washington and became a community licensee in 1987. In 2015 it merged with the Seattle nonprofit news site Crosscut to form Cascade Public Media, and in 2024 KCTS 9 and Crosscut unified under the Cascade PBS name. Its studios and offices are at 316 Broadway on Seattle's First Hill.

Alongside PBS national programming, Cascade PBS produces local series including Mossback's Northwest, Nick on the Rocks, Out & Back with Alison Mariella Désir, The Nosh with Rachel Belle, Art by Northwest, Origins and The Newsfeed, publishes articles and podcasts, and hosts screenings, conversations and signature events such as the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. Its mission is to inform and inspire the community to make the world a better place.

Cascade PBS hires across television and digital production, membership and fundraising, corporate sponsorship, marketing, events and operations. Its careers page lists benefits for full-time staff and those working more than 20 hours a week, including medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) with an employer match, a fully paid ORCA transit pass, 21 days of paid time off to start and 11 paid holidays.

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Cascade PBS

$28.00 / hour · Seattle, Washington, US

Websitehttps://www.cascadepbs.org/

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