KQED: Bay Area Culture & News v9.18.5
KQED
About this app
Developer Description
High-quality, trustworthy stories
Personalize your experience with the topics that interest you most. Stream live TV and radio, follow original podcasts and video series, and get notified when your favorite shows air — all in one simple-to-use app.
It’s all free, thanks to the generous support of our members.
Trustworthy Local News
At one of California’s largest newsrooms, our mission is to cut through the noise and be your source for quality, trustworthy local news coverage. Your daily local feed of Bay Area news, video, and audio bites keeps you up-to-date on the subjects that matter to you. Bookmark the stories that catch your eye, then dig deeper into the content at your convenience.
Listen to Live Radio
KQED is NPR’s member station for the Bay Area. Enjoy programs like Forum, The California Report, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered. Visit the Radio Schedule to catch-up on shows you missed from the past 24 hours. You can also set reminders to be alerted when your favorite programs are about to air. Sustaining members can listen to the Pledge-Free Stream during our fundraising drives. Sign in or create a KQED account to enjoy this benefit.
Watch Live TV
Stream original KQED produced programs like Check, Please! Bay Area and Brokenwood Mysteries as well as PBS & ABT content like NOVA, PBS News Hour, and BBC America, as well as children’s shows like Sesame Street and Arthur – all on our free live stream of KQED Public Television 9. Use the in-app TV schedule to set up notifications for when favorite programs are about to air.
Discover Original KQED Video Programs
Dive into KQED original video programming like our award-winning “If Cities Could Dance,” explore big scientific mysteries by going incredibly small with “Deep Look,” a ultra-HD (4K) wildlife & nature series, and explore the latest new programs that we're continually developing.
KQED Live Events
Be in-the-know about KQED hosted events. From concerts and demo’s by Bay Area artists and chefs, to guest speakers and movie screenings, KQED Live brings your community together for uniquely Bay Area experiences. With its reminder option, the new KQED app can make sure you’re on top of the latest happenings.
KQED Original Podcasts
Immerse yourself in stories that reflect and affect your community with KQED podcasts like Bay Curious and Rightnowish, keep up on California news with The California Report Magazine, or escape with a thriller like Spooked, an exploration of the supernatural in the everyday world.
Download episodes to your device to enjoy when you’re on-the-go.
Signing in has its benefits
Signed in KQED donor members can access their member card to enjoy KQED benefits and discounts at venues and businesses throughout the Bay Area. All signed in users can save and download content to enjoy at a time that works for you. Signed-in users also benefit from a personalized experience where the topics you choose to follow are remembered and prioritized for you in your feed.
We aim to serve our entire community
We strive to make our digital products accessible to all. Please contact us if you encounter any difficulties using our new app.
What's New
Mood-Based Personalization
- Pick your mood during onboarding to customize your article feed. We'll tailor content to match what you're interested in right now.
Improvements
- Scrolling within the Live Stream should working again.
- Bug fixes & performance updates to keep everything running reliably.
Update today and discover content that speaks to you!
Version Information
- Version
- 9.18.5
- Downloads
- 50K+
- Updated on
- Jan 12, 2026
- Released
- Sep 14, 2012
- Requires
- Android 8.0
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KQED: Bay Area Culture & News users say on Google Play
Caleb M
They've added a lot more functionality to the app since my first review. I haven't had any streaming issues or bugs as a result, which is great. And if all you want from the app is to listen to live radio, you can still do that easily. If you go to settings, then display, and set "Listen" as the page the app opens to, then live radio will be a single click away after starting the app. Overall, excellent job adding new stuff without complicating the simple activity of listening to the radio.
Tony Tam
I like this app, it has all my favorite KQED programs in one place. There is one problem with the app on Android. When I'm listening to a live stream and I receive a SMS notification on my phone that has sound, the app pauses and I have to manually restart the playback directly from the app. The media control from the KQED app has a play button, but that doesn't work.
Mike Ely
Love being able to access the pledge-free stream. That said, there is absolutely no reason why the app should log out sometimes multiple times per day. And to make it worse the app doesn't play nice with the Google Credential Manager API, so you have to copy/paste out of your password manager. I've tried contacting KQED about it directly but crickets.
Jay
Live streaming in the latest version STILL doesn't work right. The "back" icon says it goes back 10 secs while only going 2 or 3. Navigating via the timeline is also still a mess. I paused Forum for several mins, then started again. When the 11am show started, the screen changed to that title and showed a 0:00 timeline despite still playing Forum. When I tried to navigate, it stopped playing Forum and jumped to the next show. All my other streaming apps work fine. Why can't you get this right??
Yumi L.
1/19/24 Update: still poorly engineered, nothing against KQED but the app is terrible on my Pixel 7 Pro. Constantly cutting off, disconnects from Bluetooth speaker, if I get a text message email It disrupts the stream. I've been streaming for the past hour and it's cut off almost every few minutes. I love KQED, I'm a sustaining member but I'm upset that I can't even stream it from my phone.
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