OEPBS Sign-Off 1981

[chip64c]

Call PPTN THE KEYSTONE NETWORK; maybe that might work as Pennsylvania is the Keystone State...just a thought

[Ibusers1]

What these top comments had both meant was that they were really saying "TAKE ME BACK TO THE EIGHTIES, PLEASE!!!"

[rexxdexx]

And KVDO in Salem would move

To Bend and would become the

OPB station there

[kcthatsawinner]

"From the Oregon Network..." Love that classic ID + the trees forming a snowflake and star. But while the announcer says FROM THE OREGON NETWORK... it says OEPBS! OETA (Oklahoma Educational Television Authority) calls themselves THE OKLAHOMA NETWORK and KET (Kentucky Educational Television) is known as the Kentucky Network. I wish PPTN (Pennsylvania's public tv network group) could be called THE PENNSYLVANIA NETWORK!

[mnestic]

I really like their logo- how it starts out as pine trees and then becomes snowflake-like. Cool.

[Partier29]

Oh, and the announcer mentions Front Avenue as the address. That street was renamed Naito Parkway several years ago.

[Partier29]

It is now Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB). And I happen to be from Oregon! Too bad I wasn't born then.

[johnneedslove]

beautiful......timeless and warms my heart

[fixman88]

I like these old-school TV logos. It's like going back in time!

[tubedan2006]

Let me get this straight, the STATE owns the PTV stations?

[ProductionX]

There's a lot of PBS stations like that in America that are sometimes state-operated rather than from individual groups in one city or so.

[FirewareOSBA]

WOSU-TV34 (Columbus, Ohio, and WPBO-TV42 (Portsmouth) are owned by Ohio State University, and operated by the state.

[tkaye2]

The State of Oregon divested itself of the OEPBS stations in 1981, probably not long after this clip was recorded. Oregon Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit organization, was formed and took control of the licenses.

[happy7117]

Sounds like he was reading from a cue-card!!

[pvx]

I dunno, the quality of the announcer's voice sounds just a bit too good to be from a telephone connection (it's not mid-rangey & lo-fi enough), the sound at the end that sounds like he's "hanging up", sounds more a like a glitch on the tape to me...

[radamail]

Interesting. Sometimes on old TV broadcasts you can hear an announcer's studio microphone making a not so clean "chunk", "click" or "whoosh" sound when it's pressed or released when finishing a sentence.

Any engineers out there want to take a stab at this one?

[JackSpader]

PBS stations have often used donated broadcast equipment, and especially back then could not match the quality of commercial TV for that reason. In this case the audio was likely from the microphone of the announcer's headset. And station continuity was usually read live on the air by an announcer in the control room, not pre-recorded at an audio studio like on commercial TV.

[dingdook22]

This Sounds Like The ABC Signature

[gshowguy]

To me, it sounds like the jingle of Playaround Video in Australia.

[MIKECNW]

Is it just me or is there something odd about the way the announcer sounded? Sounds like he was on a phone and hung up after he was done. Could that recording be older that the sign off itself?

[dink15068]

Sure sounds like he was on the phone to me.

[gjc]

Sounded like he was on the phone to me too.