In the late 1990s, KTEH bought KCAH in Watsonville, which was founded in 1989 to serve as the PBS station for the Santa Cruz–Salinas–Monterey market.

These volunteers made up the technical crews for all of their pledge drives and auction programming, as well as other occasional live broadcasts.

KTEH was notable as the station that saw the broadcast premiere of the English-subtitled Neon Genesis Evangelion, as well as the dubbed version of the Tenchi Universe TV series.

Other anime aired on KTEH include Bubblegum Crisis, Key the Metal Idol,[6] subtitled versions of Dirty Pair Flash, All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, Urusei Yatsura,[7] and Sakura Wars, and dubbed versions of Serial Experiments Lain,[8] City Hunter, Ruin Explorers, Please Save My Earth,[9][10] Ranma ½,[11] and Generator Gawl.

KTEH also aired Robotech, an English production that was originally a combination of three similar, but otherwise unrelated anime series (Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada) that originally aired on commercial broadcast television in the United States.

[12][13] Karen Roberts was the person responsible for acquiring the programming for both British television series and Japanese anime.