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[design] Resume Before/Resume After
2007-12-14 06:28:00 1186. I finally got the chance to deliver a certain dear effort I'd done for someone. Ed is a good friend that we've go way back with and lives in Salem, so we don't see him and his family all the time, but we do keep up as we can. One of his boys, a really winsome fellow named Nathan, is passionate about acting, and he's played a few roles. He's just getting started in his career. Some time ago, Ed handed me a copy of Nathan's resume. He admits he's no designer, and I saw a chance to improve something, so I did. Tonight I finally got the chance to deliver the results of what I did. here's approximately what it looked like before (apologies to dialup customers–they're a little big):To Ed's credit, he used MS Excel to lay out the resume. That's someone I'd not of thought of.And here's what it looked like after I got through with it:Quite the difference. I know nothing of the acting world, but it seems to me that a resume for an actor ought to communicate in terms of a ... More About: Design , Resume
[design, logo_design] Tips From An Obvious Master
2007-12-13 17:23:00 1185. From Inside / Outside: From the Basics to the Practice of Design , Second Edition, by Malcolm Grear: (a logo is) a simple tool, like a hammer; it has a straightforward function. Anything that gets in the way of that function weakens the effectiveness of the tool. Keep it simple. Same for symbols. Simplicity, clarity, elegance. And by elegance I mean the sort of form that a wide diversity of viewers will find visually active and easily remembered. Being memorable matters a lot. If the form is ornate, it can't stick in memory. Simple and ugly is easy; simple and boring is easy; simple and vague is also easy.That's one reason I aspire to logo design. CreativePro.com has an excerpt from the above New Riders book (which is where the quote comes from) which you can download (it's a PDF) via the article at this link hyar.Highly recommended.Technorati Tags: design logo_design logo design Malcolm Grear More About: Tips , Obvious , Master , Aster
[pdx] Not That I Can Afford Any Events There, But It Still Sucks
2007-12-13 16:57:00 1184. Vulcan is selling the naming rights to the Rose Garden Arena. Yay, us! Brent Hunsberger, in todays Big O, says all that needs to be said about it:That means the Blazers could play their home games in an arena named as blandly as Key Arena in Seattle or as omnipresent as Oracle Arena in Oakland, home to the Golden State Warriors. Or EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, named after a company that disposes of nuclear wasteIt frequently irritates me that Rose Garden events are typically priced out of my range, even the ones I'd actually want to go to; at least I liked the design of the building and the fact that I could go past it without cringing. This might sound funny from someone who fancies themselves a graphic designer, but it gets tiresome living in a world where there is no such thing as something that can't be used for advertising.And so it goes, I suppose.Technorati Tags: pdx Rose Garden Naming Rights More About: Events , Sucks
[logo_design] Channel Surfing: On The 6's
2007-12-13 14:52:00 1183. We dive back into the 2-13 world of the VHF dial; we have weather and traffic, on the 6's.KAUZ, Channel 6, Wichita Falls TX, has a free and fun 6 that has a kind of cool unexpected shadow under the ascender:Also, the CBS eye is in an interesting and unexpected place. Texoma, for what it's worth, is the name for the community around the Texas-Oklahoma border centering on Wichita Falls and named in the inimitable portmanteauish way those in the south-central part of the US seem to like naming some of their regional area regions.KBBL TV and radio broadcasts to the town of Springfield. We weren't able to find the logo, but here's what their radio transmission tower looks like:KCEN, channel 6 Waco TX, does a pretty creative trick with the 6 that makes it look like a Möbius strip being constructied. And, of course, the Lone Star, which by now needs no introduction:I kept wanting to call this one KMDFM-TV, Channel 6. Whatever you want to call it, it's localed in Beaumont TX:KIV... More About: Surfing
[design] Funky Neighborhood Maps, IP, and Helping Oneself To Others' Ideas
2007-12-13 14:31:00 1182. A little experiment last night reminded me (of course) about thoroughly checking out something before going through with it-at the very least, making sure that I've read every link. In my defense, I'll say that the blog that I found it on has a slightly different format, but that makes it a learning experience. In my TV Logo Library exploration (which I've given the continuing title Channel Surfing to) I noticed I got a link from the esteemable Brittney Gilbert (she of http://brittneygilbert.com), a very fascinating person. My Channel 5's entry was linked from a class on her blog called "itty bitty"; in a sidebar I noticed a link to a cool neighborhood map. Clicking on it, I was taken directly to a quite cool neighborhood map of San Francisco, which was only neighborhood boundary lines with DIN Engschrift type filling the 'hoods in completely adventurous ways (view that map here).Now, I thought Hey, that's cool; wonder what it would look like if I did such a thing, then ... More About: Ideas , Design , Maps , Neighborhood , Funky
[media] Channel Surfing: That Was the WEWS That Was
2007-12-11 15:42:00 1181. WEWS is on of the old-line stations in Cleveland–it's been around forever, like the old guard hereabouts. And like local stations here, they have to market. In the 70's, for example, they wanted you to tune into Eyewitness news and Catch 5...(thanks to Kevin Allman for the tip). This is such an amazing period piece–even though a lot of us lived through those times, I'm sure you can agree with me that we can't believe that that stuff was ever fashionable. Kevin describes it as a combination of The Electric Company and Peter Max and I can't think of a better way to describe it. I do, however, have a compulsion to seek out episodes of Mary Tyler Moore now.They sure knew how to have fun at WEWS. In this clip, the weatherman (with the obvious complicity of the control room staff) make fun of the sports anchor's hair:And in this one, legendary Cleveland broadcaster Dorothy Fuldheim isn't sure what she is, but she's certain it isn't bisexual:Occasionally bloopers happene... More About: Media , Surfing , Channel
[logo_design] Channel Surfing: The Channel 5's
2007-12-10 19:21:00 1180. Inexorable in our progress, we march up the VHF dial.Watch out, Channel 5's, its your turn now, whether you want it or not! Let's go...Our first stop is KALB Channel 5, Alexandria LA, right smack in the center of the state.Big, wide-bodied 5, slickly silver, with an arc suggesting a supporting disc. What's notable here is that while KALB is considered the NBC affiliate for that market, it carries CBS on a digital subchannel, thus the double-network marks.I'm quite frankly starting to flinch every time I'm seeing the words NewsChannel, News Channel, or any combination (camel capped or no). But you can't fight fashion, it's said. True that is. Further into the wilds with gun and camera, then:KCTV Channel 5, Kansas City–aptly chosen call, jauntily obliqued (but still-ready-for-action) 5, and the clever move of coloring the background along the lines of the character. Pretty nifty touch.KENS, Channel 5, San Antonio, is KGW's sister station (both are Belo properties), and... More About: Surfing
[media, notebook] This Post Is Brought To You By The Letters K and W, and b
2007-12-07 19:42:00 1179. From The ZehnKatzen Notebook s–TV Station Call Signs, or the letters we call our TV stations. We know that all the broadcast stations in Oregon begin with K; in fact, it's a truism that broadcasters west of the Mississippi start with K whilst those east start with W; and some stations have three-letter calls (KEX, KGW, KXL) though others four (KOIN, KATU, KPOJ). Strangely, however, there's a KDKA in Pittsburgh-hundreds of miles west of the Mississippi. Ever wonder why? I did, found out, filed away the info, and then forgot it. Now, in collecting TV Station logos, I found I wanted to know again and now, thanks to Google, the answers are but a few minutes away, perforce, the following, capped with a few words on corporate style (the CBS Mandate). The following is a thumbnail of what I found out. A web-bibliography follows. The Story of the Ks and the Ws A long time ago there were only a handful of stations broacast... More About: Media , Post , Letters
[logo_design] The Turn of Channel 4's
2007-12-07 04:41:00 1178. And now, the next chapter in our cavalcade of TV Station Logos, in order; Channel 4.Another cable channel with some slick artistry about it: the San Diego Channel, 4SD ... Check out the Zardoz-like 4 and the Coca-Colaish stripe:KPSD KAID 4, Boise, is the flagship station of Idaho's public television fleet:KARK, Channel 4 , Little Rock, with the NBC peacock once again providing coverage you can count on:KCNC, Channel 4, Denver, eyes you with this CBS mandated logo:KFOR, Channel 4, Oklahoma City, channeling news with an origami 4:Judging by some of the news lately, with all this news channeling going on, we wish someone would channel Ed Murrow. Anyhow, moving on...KGBT Channel 4 is taking action for me in Harlingen TX, which is good for me, because I'm not going to be there any time soon, which is bad for them, because they need some design help here:KITV Channel 4 Honolulu scores points here for making it abstract and interesting without making it unintelligible:A little desig... More About: Turn
[logo_design] KVDO TV-3 Logo, More Finished Version
2007-12-07 03:34:00 1177. Another despatch from Electric Logo land. This is a polishing of the KVDO logo we just presented:We've cleaned up the typography quite a bit here, and extended the type treatment into the station's call-sign. The call-letters align with the letterforms TV, leading the eye across and through. The 3 calls attention to itself through sheer size, leading the eye to the type, where we naturally reset to the left end of that string, reading back rightward to encode the information.The majuscule T and V letterforms formed the basis for almost all the rest of the type; the D was created from the stem stroke of the T and a clipped O, which was simply composed of two ellipses. The stem was again borrowed as the basis of the K, and the hairline and leg strokes for the K were kept simple so it could all be augured in by sight.To cap off this trip down Oregon broadcast memory lane, the studio building for KVDO still stands, only, of course, it hasn't been used as a TV studio since the da... More About: Version , Nish
[logo_design] Salem's Own KVDO-TV 3 (1970-1976)
2007-12-06 14:11:00 1176. From our headquarters in Electric Logoland, another ZehnKatzen Labs production:Salem's own Channel 3, KVDO TV. KVDO (the VDO meant video, and some locals called it K-Video for a short while) signed on in February 1970 to big capitial city press. It was an independent station that tried to mount its own news operation, and it was a moderate hit in Salem, but no matter how popular such a station is, it always had to operate in the shadow of the Portland stations–a competition which, by 1976, proved too stiff. Independent Channel 3 signed off an became a star in the OPB constellation.In 1976, after KVDO was acquired by OPB and began simulcasting PBS programs, Channel 3 went dark from February to September of that year, when an upset local Salem viewer decided to protest the sale to OPB by cutting down the transmission tower. Eventually the station was moved to Bend, which had no OPB coverage, signing on in 1983 as KOAB-TV.This version of the logo is about 90% faithful to the o...
[pdx, humor] Bobby Hacker Is Back. Just Accept It.
2007-12-05 20:37:00 1175. Cars III is coming. Seriously. Start building your bomb shelters now.The below clip is close enough to NSFW that you should just leave off it until you get home, unless you're lucky enough to have one of those bosses that have that sort of sense of humor (the kind that finds you astounded that he/she hasn't been sued yet):I'm thinking that green-screen "trailer was approved for all audiences" announcement up front was what they in "the biz" call a joke.Bobby 's got a new one on the way–and there's pretty much nothing you can do to stop him. Just deal with it. Tags: Bobby Hacker , Cars, Cars III, Get Out Your Fscking Checkbook More About: Humor , Back , Accept
[design, art] In Which We Find Ourselves Wishing That We Could Get A Job De
2007-12-05 19:33:00 1174. Because coming up with this was liberating:Also, Snow Patrol is the best band we've heard come along in a hell of a long time.Fun chutzpah-themed Wikipedia trivia snippet: In the early days, the band used to pretend to be members of the Scottish band Belle & Sebastian in order to gain free entry to the Student Union club at the Glasgow School of Art. Tags: album cover art, snow patrol, shut your eyes, 94/7 Sessions, KNRK More About: Design , Find , Wishing , Get a Job
[pdx, map_design] A Very Spare Map Of Metropolitan Portland
2007-12-05 16:53:00 1173. A production of ZehnKatzen Labs:Not complete–a few roads are left off, but the map is actually not complete. Oh, yes, and no nomenclature at all; impose your own truths, or none, as you see fit (actually, that's kind of scary, isn't it?).No roads on the Washington side, but nothing personal, Vancouver; VanWA is outside of the bailiwick of the project this map supports. I know you're up there.Adobe® Illustrator CS3, for those who are wondering.Oh, yes, this work is governed by the following license:This work is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.If you want to nick it, go ahead, just give me credit for it, neh? Tags: Portland , Oregon, Free Maps, digital maps More About: Metropolitan , Pare
[sign_design] A Rough Proposal for a Metropolitan Portland Route Sign
2007-12-04 16:15:00 1172.A rather rough rough. The rose represents on behalf of the Rose City, of course, and was clipped from a lower-res photograph I have here strictly for visualization purposes.The rose graphic might not be completely acceptable for a metropolitan route network–after all, Portland isn't the whole of the Metro area, and other Metro area towns that are not Portland can be somewhat resentful of a Rose-City-centric symbol for a badged route running through thier neighborhoods.But this gets the general gist of the idea across. The pentagonal shield is, of course, the commonly-used county route cutout, and the idea of personalizing the shield with a commonly-recognizable symbol rather than words (such as METRO ROUTE) was inspired by the way Charlotte NC adorns the Charlotte Route 4 sign with the crown from the city's logo. Tags: Portland, pdx, Portland Metro, PDX Metro, Metro Routes More About: Proposal , Sign , Metropolitan
[meme] ZehnKatzen's Weekly Winners #3: Looking East at Sundown
2007-12-03 03:20:00 1167. For this weeks, edition, more night landscapes. We love the city lights–that's one of the reasons we live in the ... well, city:This is taken from the top of Portland's Rocky Butte. I love digital cameras–couldn't take this sort of picture with the old Instamatics or (yikes!) Disc cameras. that long sloped line of lights in the distance is the Glenn Jackson (Interstate 205) Bridge going into Vancouver, WA. The dark swatch going across the middle of the photo to meet it is the Columbia River. The actual PDX facility is off to the right of the frame: what's going across the middle there is actually NE Airport Way running up to the 'port.Now, we take a more due-easterly view:We look east toward Troutdale, Wood Village, Fairview, and the northern extent of Gresham. That beautiful light streak is Interstate 84, the Columbia River Highway.What I love doing is getting lost in the individual street lights. The subjective impression they give of just the area around them that ... More About: Meme , East , Winners , Weekly , Sundown
[bloggage] NaBloPoMo: Job Done!
2007-12-01 18:37:00 1166. I, along with a lot of other people, have completed that inspired silliness, NaBloPoMo. I enjoyed it. It never really became a treadmill for me; as a matter of fact, I found even more interesting things to explore and to write about.And if maybe my visitor volume didn't come up to where I'd hoped it would and maybe American didn't fall in love with me like I'd hoped it would, I did fall even more in love with writing and creating.I'm not designing for pay yet, but yesterday night I entered an idea in a contest (a lark, for non-design prizes, yo, still flyin' the NO!SPEC banner y'all) and since I'd left it off for the last minute I got it done quickly. The design had been gestating in my mind for a couple of weeks (sometimes, you just can't thumbnail except in the gestalt).I've upped my Photoshop game–I don't think I could have done those old Salem sign mockups a couple of missives back before. Now my skill set's bigger.I may still not be one of the more popular P...
[liff] All You Need To Know about TV From 1978 Through 1995 In One Video Ma
2007-11-30 20:45:00 1165. The ultimate video mashup: the opening of Star Trek:The Next Generation, via Dallas. Best Video Mashup. Ever. We can close up civilization and go home now. Tags: video mashup, Star Trek, ST:TNG, Dallas, Opening Titles
[street_blades, info_design] New Portland Overhead Signs, and a New Street
2007-11-30 20:28:00 1164. If you've been looking up and forward whilst waiting at any light in the Portland corporate area latterly, you'll have seen a sign bound to the overhead like this:The City is, at last, addressing a real need in road signage. Most other larger towns up and down the valley (and across the Columbia too) have large signs denoting the street name on the traffic signal arm. Any driver who's been saved from having to frantically scan about on the corners to see what street they're crossing don't need to be told how good this is. The standard has seemed to have been set; the iconic representation of the "Portland Rose", the red rose with three green leaves, and a simple representation of the street name at cross. The notation on this particular sign deserves some explanation. For the past several months, a major realignment of the connection between Killingsworth Street and Columbia Boulevard has been becoming reality. The old Columbia Boulevard opening, a two-lane ... More About: Signs
[bloggage] Blogger's Just Giving Away The Graphics
2007-11-30 20:07:00 1164. Currently, when you clicky to embiggen an image in blogspot blogs, instead of embiggening, the image downloads to your desktop. I'll keep this in mind when posting photeaux in the near term. The above link also has information on what they claim is a workaround. Fortunately, I'm not the only one having this problem. I'm always relieved when I find that sort of thing out. Technorati Tags: blogger,blogger problems,blogspot More About: Graphics , Giving , The G
[pdx_transit] TriMet TV #7: A Ride on the #20
2007-11-30 19:36:00 1163. TriMet TV episode 7 is out, and it's a ride on the #20-Burnside/Stark line.This episode is in the travelogue mode. The #20 line runs from Beaverton Tran sit Center, via Cedar Hills Blvd, Sunset TC and Barnes Rd, then down Burnside from the crest of the hill all the way out to Gateway TC, then out Burnside to Gresham. The episode is light on info for the real local, but has a nice flow to it and ticks off the things you can do and see and go to which are right on the line (Mt Hood Community College, Powell's Books) and just off it via the Streetcar (Classical Chinese Garden, The Pearl).This vod is really for the tourist–and people like me, who like buses. But withal the production value is right where it should be, and makes a pretty nice calling-card and invitation to try for the tourist or the local looking for a little transit based adventure.You can watch it (again, less than three minutes, won't waste much of your time) here. Tags: pdx_transit, pdx transit, TriMet, ... More About: Ride , Transit
[sign_design, info_design] County Highways in Oregon
2007-11-30 04:39:00 1162. One thing not seen often in Oregon are signed county routes. I think this is unfortunate, because having county route numbers are a really nifty way of instilling terrior, a sense of place, and saying "follow Country Route 3" dispenses with all sorts of "go left here ... or was that right ...no, wait, start over" monologue that even I (and you can't get me lost very easily anyhwere in the Valley north of Corvallis) tend to get into (the brain is a funny thing).There is one county in Oregon that implements a badged county road network, and that county is Douglas. It's a little hard to find maps with the route numbers on online–I do have a map of them, but that's off the official Douglas County map of 1990, an illustration of which is at left (click the map to embiggen).The county road shield is a standard one: gold FHWA-style type on blue field, an irregular pentagon taller than wide, with mitred corners on the bottom two points and rounded corners on the top three. I've ...
[info_design, street_blades] Salem Street Blades-The Way They Used To Be
2007-11-29 20:30:00 1161. Posting about Salem street blades got me reminiscing about growing up in Salem, and I remember seeing some of the evolutions of that form. The following comes from memory ...When my fam moved into town, the street blades (inside town, anyway-the Marion County blades were wooden, and standard off-white on green) weren't green-on-white, as detailed two entries back, but rather looked like this:That's m4d Photoshop skillz, yo. The letterforms were slightly different too, but the current editions are close enough that this looks very close to the way they used to be. But this was just an intermediate step in their evolution. Perhaps influenced by styles seen elsewhere, the name blade used to be slenderer–with only room for one line of type, the street name; the block index went on a tab that was riveted to the main blade:I believe this style was current in Salem through the late sixties and was supplanted by the other style as signs needed replacing. Moreover, street blades du... More About: Street , Blades
[design, layout] The Perils of Page Layout, 2: Proofread, Proofread, Proofr
2007-11-29 15:41:00 1160. From the movie listings in The Big O today:Yes, but which one will we go see ... oh, well, when in doubt, see the one that has Jake Gylenhaal in it...what, dude, what ... neither of them have him in it? Oh, my. Tags: design, page layout, funny More About: Design , Page , Layout
[info_design, street_blades] A Tour Of Salem and Keizer's Street Blades
2007-11-29 10:04:00 1158. Latterly, as detailed before in this consciousness stream, we visited Salem to see Fam and overeat generally. Missions both accomplished. But what Yours Truly had in mind was to snap some images of something we don't see often: Salem and Keizer street blades. Lets just cut to the chase, then. The first of the two cities one comes to is, of course, Keizer. Formed in 1982, mostly to keep Salem out, Keizer is one of the two areas where Salem ever got any sprawl on before urban growth boundaries sprang up around Oregon cities back in the day. Here's a typical set of blades in a typical Keizer neighborhood. 14th Avenue NE is notable because it is to greater Salem what Peacock Lane is to Portland–it's the street where all the neighbors go all out every holiday season in a Christmas decoration extravaganza: The block number indexes are notable here. You're looking at the intersection of the 1300 block of Harmony Dr NE and the 5700 block of 14t... More About: Tour , Street , Blades
[liff] Nobody's Ever Said What That Makes Idaho
2007-11-29 08:16:00 1157. Ever since Stephen Colbert declared Oregon "Idaho 's Portugal", I've had a bit of trouble wrestling with this metaphor. Oregonlive.com has seen fit to lift this geographic slight (and get a few hits of Colbert's name, but hey–so am I) with the ad clipped at right (h/t Nonprofit Girl). My point is, if Oregon is Idaho's Portugal, then Idaho should be Oregon's Spain (Calfornia and Washington are Oregon's USA, if you apply the Colbertian metaphor the other way). But Idaho is a poor stand-in as anyone's Spain. I mean, can you picture someone in Eagle going down into Boise for tapas? No, I can't either.And just what is up with that little yellow alien by the word Oregon fnord? Technorati Tags: Idaho's Portugal,liff,humor,Colbert
[design, logo_design] Channel 3's
2007-11-28 12:03:00 1156. And now, a song of Channel Threes. This post is in fond memoriam of KVDO Channel 3, Salem, which broadcast from 14 Feb 1970 to 19 Feb 1976 as Salem's local independent TV station (after Feb 1976 it was broacasting OPB content, and we're including that period when that disgruntled viewer cut down the Channel 3 transmission tower). So, after a brief 30-second (or 60-second, if you can afford it) pause to reflect, we'll move on.There. You know, it just occurred to me–does anyone have any KVDO ephemera? If you scan it and send it here, I'll be happy to post that. Anyway, without further ado ... Let's tune in across the country to Channel 3 ...On Cable Channel 3 in Longmont, Colorado–The Longmont Channel:I thought it was cool the way someone did a little design job just for their local cable channel.Acadiana's News Channel, KATC, Lafayette, LA:KBTX, Channel 3, College Station/Bryan Texas. They sure do know how to work that Lone Star down there:KCRA, Channel 3, Sacramento.... More About: Design
[liff] The Kind of Dreams I Have Sometimes
2007-11-28 03:45:00 1156. You know how some people dream about sleeping sometimes? Yesterday night, I dreamt about sleepwalking. No, typically, we don't have discussions in this household about whether or not I've lost it. Technorati Tags: liff More About: Dreams , Some
[design, logo_design] Channel 2's
2007-11-28 01:57:00 1155. Ever wonder what thier Channel 2 looks like?So did I. Here's what I found (dialup warning–metric buttload of images follow):Well, all of you who are Painfully Portland (like me) already know this one:Here's KBCI Channel 2, Boise (before and after the recent rebranding):KCBS, Channel 2, Los Angeles:KDKA, Channel 2, Pittsburgh (a "K" station east of the Mississippi):KGAN Channel 2, Cedar Rapids Iowa:KHON Channel 2, Honolulu:KJRH Channel 2, Tulsa:KPRC Channel 2, Houston (aren't they perky?):... although that fellow on the far left pretty much defines the phrase gimlet-eyed gaze.KTUU Channel 2, Anchorage:KTVI Channel 2, Saint Louis:KTVN Channel 2, Reno:KTVU Channel 2, San Francisco:KUTV Channel 2, Salt Lake City:KWGN, Channel 2, Denver:TPT (Twin Cities Public Television), Minnesota. Has Channel 2 and 17:WBAY, Channel 2, Green Bay and Fox River Valley, Wisconsin:WBBM, Chicago's Legendary CBS O&O Channel 2:WCBD, Channel 2, Charleston South Carolina:WCBS, Channel 2, New Yor... More About: Design
[pdx, logo_design] A Brief History of The KPTV Logo (Sort of) With Illustra
More articles from this author:2007-11-27 12:51:00 1154. The history of Portland television is, in a way, the history of Channel 12, KPTV. It's also kind of a history of styles and fashion, which is truthfully the way I relate to it on a gut-response level. The current logo portrays the KPTV-that-is-now; Portland's FOX affiliate–slick, mature, serious. It was a long growing-up. History will recall that Portland's own KPTV was the first TV station in Portland, and may well be the first commercial UHF TV station in the world (the award for first UHF station proper going to a Bridgeport, CN trasmitter (KC2XAK) that was an experimental effort). Ironically, the first owners of KPTV–Empire Coil–bought the transmission equipment for KC2XAK, shipped it cross country, and assembled it on Council Crest ... as KPTV's first transmitter. It signed on as KPTV-Channel 27 in September of 1952 carrying all four then-major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and DuMont), and, as commercial television exploded in Stumptown from 1952 th... More About: Logo , Sort 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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