Television Stations in Oregon - Oregon Public Broadcasting, Kezi, Kval-TV, Kdrv, Krcw-TV, Kmtr, List of Television Stations in Oregon (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Oregon Public Broadcasting, KEZI, KVAL-TV, KDRV, KRCW-TV, KMTR, List of television stations in Oregon, Southern Oregon Public Television, KTVZ, KFXO-LP, KMVU-DT, KPXG-TV, KOHD, KUNP, KBNZ-LD, KWVT-LP, KOTI, KBLN, KTVC, KFFX-TV, KFBI-LD, KLSR-TV, CGN-7, KXPD-LP, KSLM-LD, The Oregon Channel, KBSC-LP, KEVU-CD, KQRE-LP, K33AG, KORS-CD, K21GX, KOXO-CA, KRHP-LD, KMBA-LP, KORY-CA, K49FV, K33AO. Excerpt: Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary television and radio public broadcasting network for most of Oregon as well as southern Washington. With its headquarters and television studios in Portland, OPB consists of five full-power television stations, dozens of VHF or UHF translators, and over 20 radio stations and frequencies. Broadcasts include local programming as well as television programs from Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio, Public Radio International, and the BBC World Service. OPB is also a major producer of television programming for national broadcast on PBS or on Create, with shows such as History Detectives, Barbecue America, Foreign Exchange, and travel shows hosted by Rick Steves and Art Wolfe. (As of 2006), OPB has over one million viewers throughout its region and an average of over 380,000 radio listeners each week. The part of southwestern Oregon not served by OPB is served by Jefferson Public Radio and Southern Oregon Public Television. OPB traces its roots to October 7, 1922 when KFDJ-AM signed on from the Corvallis campus of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). It became KOAC-AM on December 11, 1925. In 1932, KOAC became a service of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education General Extension Division KOAC Radio won OPB's first Peabody Award when it was recognized for Outstanding Public Service by a Local Station for a 1942 program called Our Hidde...