Original Update (this is a re-upload):
Welp. Color me surprised. My Sony VCR has been fooling me all this time. It always skips about ten seconds at the beginning of every tape, because when I was screwing with my new VCR, I found out there was more to this old remnant than I expected (I actually initially discovered the hiccup when I stuck in the tape with Charlie Brown on it -- there was almost ten seconds of The Big Comfy Couch prior to it that I had never seen before!). Granted, it's not much, but considering this is already twice the length of what I already uploaded, and since it hasn't been up that long, I guess it's as good a time as any to fix it. This is higher-quality than the previous upload anyway, so it's a win-win.
Original description:
The only surviving piece I have of this long-gone PBS channel, it's a promo for The Lawrence Welk Show. Or part of it, anyway. I can't tell you what year this is from, but I think it's pre-1993. It was just before my parents got a video camera for home videos, which I know for fact was '93. It's only a few seconds before we cut to a home video, in any case, and no way am I showing that.
So, yeah, fun fact, North Texas used to have a second PBS channel. However, where KERA is located in Cedar Hill along with all the other Dallas stations, this one was in Denton, hence the callsign "DTN", or DenToN. I never got very good reception to it though, at least by the time we moved to a different house (which is strange, I think we were closer to Denton than when this was recorded). Most people I know of didn't even know of its existence either. It seems they were pretty much doomed to being known as the PBS station nobody watched; they even tried to combat it by showing some PBS Kids shows in Spanish. I believe they did have the edge of showing Reading Rainbow where KERA didn't, and they kept Sagwa on their lineup after KERA removed it, but otherwise, this was a pretty unremarkable channel in the grand scheme of things. It's not even a PBS station anymore, it's now a religious channel owned by Daystar. Hilariously, they were able to keep the callsign with a new meaning ("*D*aystar *T*elevision *N*etwork").
Though, it is a bit puzzling to me how this channel can't survive yet you have areas like Los Angeles with no fewer than THREE PBS CHANNELS (and it used to be four, mind you!).
For historical and archival purposes only. All copyright belongs to their respectful owners.I will take this video down by request of any of the rights' holders.
25 авг 2024