PBS, NET, and A Real Scare For Los Angeles Public TV Viewers
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I'm sure that most of you have heard by now about what's been going down with the public broadcasting station in our town, KCET (Channel 28), and how its splitting from its national public broadcasting network, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), and most of you are probably wondering whether or not it's true. Well, I'll have to tell you that, sadly, it's true. KCET will be leaving the PBS network fold as January 1st of next year, and you know what that means: that means that there might not be any more Sesame Street, or Nova, or Nature, or Great Performances, or Masterpiece Theatre, or Antiques Roadshow, or even Frontline coming out of a Los Angeles PBS affiliate (although we will still have the Orange County PBS affiliate, KOCE Channel 50, and KLCS Channel 58, which is the TV arm of the local Los Angeles Unified School District that regularly broadcasts PBS programming).
KCET has been a major player in the public broadcasting league since 1964, when PBS was known nationally as NET (National Educational Television), which is not so much remembered nowadays, except for baby boomers and generation xers of "a certain age," who remember it for its famous logo (a red "N," a yellow "E," and a blue "T," roof, and TV antenna), and, especially, it's uber creepy theme music, which was composed by the late Eric Siday and sounds an awful lot like something that you would find in a very scary haunted house Halloween attraction. I actually know a lot of older xers who was so scared by this music that it literally gave them nightmares when they were tots in the late 1960s and early 1970's, when this logo was shown at the end of "Sesame Street" and "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," which actually had the NET logo on the front of a house in the neighborhood at the beginning and end of the program until 1970, when NET became PBS. If you wanna real scare just in time for this Halloween season, I would suggest you check out the NET theme in all of its creepy glory on You Tube. Just type in the key words "NET Logo" in the search engine. You can also check out the different PBS logos that were used throughout the years as well, including the very first (which was an orange "P" head, a yellow "B" and a green "S" and which was accompanied by science fiction-sounding theme music.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to help the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
I'm sure that most of you have heard by now about what's been going down with the public broadcasting station in our town, KCET (Channel 28), and how its splitting from its national public broadcasting network, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), and most of you are probably wondering whether or not it's true. Well, I'll have to tell you that, sadly, it's true. KCET will be leaving the PBS network fold as January 1st of next year, and you know what that means: that means that there might not be any more Sesame Street, or Nova, or Nature, or Great Performances, or Masterpiece Theatre, or Antiques Roadshow, or even Frontline coming out of a Los Angeles PBS affiliate (although we will still have the Orange County PBS affiliate, KOCE Channel 50, and KLCS Channel 58, which is the TV arm of the local Los Angeles Unified School District that regularly broadcasts PBS programming).
KCET has been a major player in the public broadcasting league since 1964, when PBS was known nationally as NET (National Educational Television), which is not so much remembered nowadays, except for baby boomers and generation xers of "a certain age," who remember it for its famous logo (a red "N," a yellow "E," and a blue "T," roof, and TV antenna), and, especially, it's uber creepy theme music, which was composed by the late Eric Siday and sounds an awful lot like something that you would find in a very scary haunted house Halloween attraction. I actually know a lot of older xers who was so scared by this music that it literally gave them nightmares when they were tots in the late 1960s and early 1970's, when this logo was shown at the end of "Sesame Street" and "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," which actually had the NET logo on the front of a house in the neighborhood at the beginning and end of the program until 1970, when NET became PBS. If you wanna real scare just in time for this Halloween season, I would suggest you check out the NET theme in all of its creepy glory on You Tube. Just type in the key words "NET Logo" in the search engine. You can also check out the different PBS logos that were used throughout the years as well, including the very first (which was an orange "P" head, a yellow "B" and a green "S" and which was accompanied by science fiction-sounding theme music.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to help the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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