The main subchannel, MCAET TV, broadcasts programs of local interest and productions from the Media Center for Art, Education and Technology.
The Monterey County Superintendent of Schools began building a network of translators in the early 1960s to rebroadcast public television from KQED in San Francisco, with the first, channel 72 from Mount Toro, going on air in September 1964.
[1] In 1967, the Monterey County Superintendent of Schools filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to build a new translator on channel 83.
By this time, the Monterey County superintendent of schools was beginning to pursue the concept of a full-service, higher-power television license, but it initially could not obtain the grant funding necessary to build the facility.
[4] A construction permit was issued for KHIJ in 1978, but the school board struggled to purchase needed equipment due to high inflation,[5] and the passage of Proposition 13 killed the project.