Several things from watching OPB/PBS at night, alone, as a kid creeped me out as a kid and continues to be seared into my mind. Listed in no particular order:
1. WGBH ident after a program that they produced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC_ZetboMWQ
2. Doctor Who Fourth Doctor intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8
3. Still image of the Portland Nursery sponsor card (sometimes without any sponsor read)
4. Mystery! introduction/title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwrIZds3nVM
5. The OPB logo with the "O" in a square with a gray gradient background and orange text. What creeped me out was the static image that would stay on the screen without music or voice... unless if they were experiencing technical diffculties and the voice coming on to say that after a bit of silence.
Modern remake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSb1h4LFVok

How the murder of #MulugetaSeraw changed #Portland forever | #OregonExperience -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R8wz-i0QLPU&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D
"A racist murder in Portland in the 1980s planted seeds of hate, but also a resistance movement"
"A new documentary from Oregon Public Broadcasting explores the story of the murder of Mulugeta Seraw, the regional and national forces that led to his death, and how Portland and the country changed in its wake."
Airs Monday, March 30, on OPB.
#Oregon #Portland #PDX #History #Racism #Documentary #OPB #GiftLink
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/31/labor-against-ice-portland-oregon-immigration-protest/
#ICE #Protest #Union #Labor #Resist #Activism #Portland #Oregon #Workers #politics #uspol #uspolitics #USA #America #1stAmendment #FirstAmendment #Freedom #Democracy #CBP #tRump #PNW #Law #Justice #ANTIFA #Peaceful #Organized #OPB #NPR #Constitution #HumanRights #Saturday #Indivisible #Immigration #Movement #defundice #Congress #USSenate #Senate #Strike #News
Thousands of protesters turned out for a mostly peaceful demonstration Saturday in Portland to speak out against increased immigration enforcement. By the end of the day, scores of nonviolent protesters were hit with chemical munitions fired by federal officers responding to a smaller crowd directly outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
Explore the scenic Pacific Northwest ... slowly ... with ‘OPB’s Slow TV’
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/26/opb-slow-tv-pacific-northwest-oregon-field-guide/
"Linger in some of the region’s most wondrous sites and moments as OPB cinematographers take you on a barge through the Gorge, on a train up Mount Hood, in a canoe around Upper Klamath Lake and more."
Some good news for Oregon Public Broadcasting funding! 😁
"OPB President’s Update: We’ve Closed the Gap"
https://www.opb.org/pressroom/presidents-update-funding-cut-update-building-trust/
(includes audio)
"Thanks to your extraordinary support, we have closed this year’s $5 million budget gap created when Congress ended federal funding."
Federal funding was 9% of the OPB budget!
Thank you to everyone who donated ❤️
Finally got an okay-enough antenna for my HDTV tuner box. Now I'm looking for things to tune into.
I've been out of the over-the-air TV game for a while. I mean, there's #OPB of course, but I can tune into so many mystery (to me) channels.
When I was a kid in the 80s/90's there was some weird/local stuff on broadcast TV, like, one step above cable-access production value (sometimes not even).
Does anyone know of any programs of local/weird stuff that I should check out?