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Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary television and radio public broadcasting network for most of the U.S. state of Oregon as well as southern Washington. OPB consists of five full-power television stations, dozens of VHF or UHF translators, and over 20 radio stations and frequencies. Broadcasts include local and regional programming as well as television programs from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and American Public Television (APT), and radio programs from National Public Radio (NPR), American Public Media (APM), Public Radio Exchange (PRX), and the BBC World Service, among other distributors. Its headquarters and television studios are located in Portland. OPB is also a major producer of television programming for national broadcast on PBS and Create through distributors like APT, with shows such as ''History Detectives'', ''Barbecue America'', ''Foreign Exchange'', ''Rick Steves' Europe'', and travel shows hosted by Art Wolfe. , OPB had over one millio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Stations
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned Television sets, receivers simultaneously. Overview Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers in that their content is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or Network affiliate, affiliate, respectively. Bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Programs Broadcast By PBS
The following is a list of programs currently or formerly distributed through the American PBS stations and other public television entities. Current programming *1 Syndicated to public television stations by the National Educational Telecommunications Association. *2 Syndicated to public television stations by Executive Program Services. *3 Syndicated to public television stations by WestLink. *4 Running only on selected PBS stations. *5 Reruns are available to public television stations. Original programming *''Washington Week'' (1967) * ''American Black Journal'' (1968) *''Masterpiece'' (1971) *''Great Performances'' (1972) *''Nova'' (1974) *''PBS NewsHour'' (1975) *''Austin City Limits'' (1976) *''The Woodwright's Shop'' (1979) *''This Old House'' (1979) *''MotorWeek'' (1981) *''Nature'' (1982) *''Frontline'' (1983) *''American Masters'' (1986) *''American Experience'' (1988) *''P.O.V.'' (1988) *'' Ciao Italia'' (1989) *''Antiques Roadshow'' (1997) *''Independent Lens'' (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon State Board Of Higher Education
The Oregon State Board of Higher Education was the statutory governing board for the Oregon University System from 1909 to 2015. The board was composed of eleven members appointed by the Governor of Oregon and confirmed by the Oregon State Senate. Nine members were appointed for four year terms; two members were students and appointed for two year terms. History The board was first known as the Oregon State Board of Higher Curricula and maintained that name from 1909 to 1929. In 1929 the Oregon Legislature passed chapter 251, Oregon Laws 1929, that unified the state's public universities under the auspices of the newly created Department of Higher Education and officially changed the board's name to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education.State ex rel. Oregon State Dental Ass'n et al. v. Smith et al. (1954), 201 Or. 288; 270 P.2d 142. Part of that law abolished each public school's board of regents and created a nine-member State Board of Higher Education. Becky Johnson, the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon State University
Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering college in the nation for 2022. Undergraduate enrollment for all colleges combined averages close to 32,000, making it the state's largest university. Out-of-state students make up over one-quarter of undergraduates and an additional 5,500 students are engaged in graduate coursework through the university. Since its founding, over 272,000 students have graduated from OSU. It is classified among "Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Chartered as a land-grant university initially, OSU became one of the four inaugural members of the Sea Grant in 1971. It joined the Space Grant and Sun Grant research consortia in 1991 and 2003, respectively, making it the first public university and one of just four in total to attain memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corvallis, Oregon
Corvallis ( ) is a city and the county seat of Benton County in central western Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 59,922. Corvallis is the location of Oregon State University and Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. Corvallis is the westernmost city in the contiguous 48 states with a population larger than 50,000. History Establishment In October 1845, Joseph C. Avery arrived in Oregon from the east.David D. Fagan''History of Benton County, Oregon: Including... a Full Political History, ...Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of Early and Prominent Citizens...''Portland, OR: A.G. Walling, Printer, 1885; pg. 422. Note that a clear typographical error in the original source has Avery's date of arrival as "October 1846", but beginning of his residence in "June 1846." Avery took out a land claim a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOAC Building, Date Unknown (6218699912)
KOAC may refer to: * KOAC (AM) KOAC (550 AM) is a radio station licensed to Corvallis, Oregon. The station is owned by Oregon Public Broadcasting, and airs OPB's news and talk programming, consisting of syndicated programming from NPR, American Public Media and Public Radio ..., a radio station (550 AM) licensed to Corvallis, Oregon, United States * KOAC-FM, a radio station (89.7 FM) licensed to Astoria, Oregon, United States * KOAC-TV, a television station (channel 7 analog/39 digital) licensed to Corvallis, Oregon, United States * Kuwait Oxygen and Acetylene Company, a subsidiary of Gulf Cryo {{call sign disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Oregon PBS
Southern Oregon PBS (SO PBS, formerly Southern Oregon Public Television or SOPTV) is the PBS member network for most of the southwest region of the U.S. state of Oregon. It operates KSYS (channel 8) in Medford and full-time satellite KFTS (channel 22) in Klamath Falls. Studios are located on South Fir Street in downtown Medford. KSYS' transmitter is located on King Mountain, while KFTS' transmitter is atop Stukel Mountain. History In 1965, Oregon Educational Broadcasting, forerunner of Oregon Public Broadcasting, persuaded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reassign channel 8 from Brookings to Medford. OEB intended to make channel 8 the third station in its television network, which at that time included flagship KOAC-TV in Corvallis and KOAP-TV (now KOPB-TV) in Portland. Southern Oregon was the only region of the state without public television. However, channel 8 at Medford was not reserved for noncommercial applicants, and two commercial applicants also demonstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferson Public Radio
Jefferson Public Radio (JPR) is a regional public radio broadcasting network serving over a million potential listeners in Southern Oregon and the Shasta Cascade region of northern California. Owned by Southern Oregon University, the network is headquartered on the SOU campus in Ashland, near Medford. It is named after the proposed State of Jefferson, an area which roughly corresponds to its vast and mostly mountainous coverage area of . JPR's flagship station, KSOR in Ashland, signed on in April 1969 as a 10-watt station operated by students at what was then Southern Oregon College. It began moving away from its college radio roots during the 1970s, becoming a full NPR member by the end of the decade. In the early 1980s, it began building a massive system of translators covering large portions of Oregon and California, and now claims one of the largest translator network of any public radio station in the country. At first, KSOR was not familiar with the history of Jeff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLCC (FM)
KLCC 89.7 FM is a National Public Radio member station based in Eugene, Oregon. It operates on various other repeater frequencies at other cities in Western, Southern and Central Oregon. The station is licensed to Lane Community College. KLCC started broadcasting in 1967, bringing a locally-focused noncommercial station to Eugene for the first time. In 1971, KLCC became a charter member of National Public Radio, airing NPR's All Things Considered. KLCC is noteworthy for its award-winning news department and eclectic evening music shows, ranging from jazz to Folk music, folk to traditional Afro-Caribbean music, African/Caribbean. Weekday programming formerly included Fresh Tracks, which featured a diverse blend of musical genres. In 2011, Fresh Tracks ended its 22-year run on KLCC. In late 2013, KLCC expanded its weekday news and information programming, featuring public radio programs beginning at 4 am with NPR's Morning Edition. Other daily programs include Here and Now (Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Wolfe
Art Wolfe (born 1951) is an American photographer and conservationist, best known for color images of landscapes, wildlife, and native cultures. His photographs document scenes from every continent and hundreds of locations, and have been noted by environmental advocacy groups for their "stunning" visual impact. Wolfe's career has been described as "multi-faceted", involving wildlife advocacy, art, journalism, and education. According to William Conway, former president of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Wolfe is a "prolific and sensitive recorder of a rapidly vanishing natural world."Three Degrees: The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference/Art Wolfe, The University of Washington School of Law, Accessed May 2013, (http://www.threedegreesconference.org/speakers/art-wolfe ) In the last 30 years, the public has viewed Wolfe's work in more than sixty published books, including ''Vanishing Act'', ''The High Himalaya'', ''Water: Worlds between Heaven & Earth'', ''Tribes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Steves' Europe
''Rick Steves' Europe'' is an American travel documentary television program created and hosted by Rick Steves. In each episode, he travels to the continent of Europe, documenting his experiences along the way. The show is produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting and distributed by American Public Television. It premiered on September 3, 2000; since then a total of 11 seasons and 137 episodes have been produced and broadcast in syndication. Season 10's filming began in September 2017, and it began airing on October 6, 2018 with an hour-long special about Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the e ... cruises that aired in February 2019. Episodes Season 1 (2000) Season 2 (2002) Season 3 (2004) Season 4 (2006) Season 5 (2008−09) Season 6 (2010) Season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Exchange (American TV Program)
''Foreign Exchange'' (previously ''Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria'') is an American weekly, half-hour international affairs program that aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television stations. The program premiered on April 1, 2005, and for three seasons was hosted by author and journalist Fareed Zakaria. Beginning in January 2008, journalist Daljit Dhaliwal became the new host and the title of the program was changed accordingly. The program explores current international issues in conversations with journalists, politicians, and other newsmakers, and examines America's role in an increasingly globalized world. The final episode aired October 9, 2009. Production The program was produced by Azimuth Media and Oregon Public Broadcasting, and was distributed by American Public Television. Major funding was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Additional support from the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York. Through a partners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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