[1][2] Currently hosted on the YouTube channel LOCAL58TV, each video in the series is presented as footage of a fictional public access television channel located in Mason County, West Virginia named Local 58, with the call sign WCLV-TV, created in the late 1930s, which is continuously hijacked over a period of decades with a series of ominous and surreal broadcasts.

The broadcast is then suddenly interrupted with an emergency alert from the fictional "Department for the Preservation of American Dignity" (DPAD) and a written message from President Lyndon B. Johnson set to "The Star-Spangled Banner", claiming that the military of the United States has been defeated by that of a foreign nation.

Serving as the channel's trailer, the video consists of a series of cryptic messages, which read the following: ANALOG HORROR AT 476 MHz

SAFETY IN NUMBERSA programming schedule abruptly cuts to a bumper saying "Local 58 Show for Children", featuring a cartoon clown statue in an amusement park.

The bumper transitions to a rubber hose animation cartoon titled "A Grave Mistake", which features an anthropomorphic skeleton named Cadavre.

Straub released Local 58's first episode, "Weather Service", in 2015 as an experimental standalone piece for his co-owned YouTube channel Chainsawsuit Original.

Straub has confirmed on Reddit that Local 58 is the same "Channel 58" referred to in his creepypasta Candle Cove, which took the form of an Internet forum thread about a bizarre children's program of the same name airing on the network.

"[27] While the series does not appear to have a continuous plot, nearly every episode seems to include cryptic references related to gazing or staring at the Moon or at the night sky.

Straub has identified themes of the series as "stillness, distrust of safety warnings, misuse of mass perception, parallel science that arises from unexamined bad intent, dogmatic thought.

"[28] Since its initial debut, Local 58 has inspired the creation of other series with similar themes, including Channel 7, Analog Archives, Eventide Media Center, and Gemini Home Entertainment.

[38] After Straub appealed YouTube's decision via in-site and other social media support avenues, it was reverted to its original settings on July 6.