Happy Camping and PBS SoCal
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Moro Campground, the 35-acre former trailer park on the Newport Beach coast between Corona del Mar and Laguna Beach, is open and bustling.
Located in Crystal Cove State Park, Moro offers ocean views from every campsite with the upper terraces for recreational vehicles and trailers; the lower terrace for tents, van conversions and sift-sided trailers; and a third site for day use with picnic areas. There are a total of 60 campsites, 30 with utility hookups.
The $15 million campground is the first California coastal campsite to open in decades, and perhaps the last. Located on the inland side of Pacific Coast Highway, Moro Campground offers a tunnel to the beach and a bridge to inland hiking trails.
When I first came to Orange County in 1973, a Los Angeles radio station held a reception at a local hotel and announced: “We know you are here, Orange County, but we don’t know what to do about it.”
As Orange County became a major urban center, its adjacency to Los Angeles’ huge radio and television center made it impossible for Orange County to have its own broadcast centers. Today, at least one Los Angeles station (KNX) does announce its call letters and then says “Los Angeles and Orange County.”
But Orange County had one little public television station, KOCE, located at Orange Coast College. This year, as Los Angeles-headquartered public television station KCET gave up its affiliation with the national Public Broadcasting System (PBS), KOCE has taken on the role of the number-one PBS station in Southern California, the nation’s second largest media market.
In line with its new prominence as a PBS full-service affiliate, KOCE has changed its name to PBS SoCal and is preparing to move into a new broadcast center at 3080 Bristol Street in Costa Mesa.
