Channel 87 Community Access Network • Local Programming In Progress • Arlington, Texas
Regional Broadcast Archive / Field Notes / Recovered Media

Darrel Smith Jr.

CH.87 • Community Access Transmission

Earnest regional media surrealism broadcasting from Arlington, Texas.

Now Airing • Built From Whatever Was Available

Experimental broadcasts, music, stop motion, videos, archives, visual art, strange transmissions, and independent creative work from the Channel 87 universe. Public access heart. Analog weirdness. DIY edge. Slightly crooked on purpose.

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“Before Anyone Else Is Awake”

A Channel 87 broadcast memory transmission exploring nostalgia, loneliness, motion, and the strange feeling that life was about to begin. Possibly recorded near a lamp. Possibly remembered wrong.

CH.87
Community Access Video Unit
Broadcast playback may contain signal degradation, emotional residue, visible tape, toy-scale continuity errors, and regional interference.
Community Programming Blocks

Tonight's featured broadcasts & media projects

Broadcast Project

Channel 87

Late-night regional transmissions, strange broadcasts, forgotten local television energy, and emotionally uncanny public-access surrealism.

Audio / Worldbuilding

Radio Free Arlington

Signals from Arlington. Music, atmosphere, memory, and transmissions from somewhere between public radio, pirate radio, and dream logic.

Editing / Stop Motion / Shorts

Video Work

TikToks, YouTube shorts, stop motion experiments, sweded scenes, visual fragments, toy-table cinema, and regional media oddities.

Songs / Broadcast Memories

Music

DIY recordings, analog textures, nostalgic synth-pop, punk roots, late-night emotional static, and songs that remember things incorrectly.

Recovered Broadcast Archive

Ongoing transmissions, recovered fragments, and field notes.

A living archive of projects, broadcasts, experiments, music, visual art, short videos, writing, and regional media oddities. Some files are official. Some were found under the couch.

Archive Entry / Field Log
Transmission Log 05.09.26 — Cobbler Segment Uploaded To Regional Feed
Recovered Tape
Community Recreation Unit — Ghostbusters Scene Test
Garden Signal
Arlington Garden Signal Interference Detected Near Compost Bin
Music / Memory
Broadcast Memory Series — Before Anyone Else Is Awake
Public Notice / Possibly Handwritten Later
Office Hours with Darrel Smith Jr. currently airing periodically throughout the Arlington viewing area. Folding chairs may be visible. Please ignore the extension cord.
Work With Me

Available for select creative collaborations, production work, editing, audio, and strange media projects.

Music production, video editing, stop motion, voiceovers, creative direction, experimental visuals, and independent media work through Arlington Field Lab. Professional enough to trust. Weird enough to remember.

Contact
Arlington Field Lab