Image via WikipediaI'd be willing to go as far as defunding SC ETV radio. Just when you think they can't get any worse, they exceed expectations.
If you listen to Morning Edition on SCETV, for example, you'll be surprised how the "classical music/NPR News" network blocks you from actually hearing the news.
In the 7-9 am block of Morning Edition, for example, SCETV claws back almost an hour from NPR for an endless series of short features that pass for local programming: the garden minstrelsy of Making It Grow (the TV version of which is pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of the state's plant nursery industry), Walter Edgar's South Carolina From A to Z (endless reruns), South Carolina Bidness Report (commercials thinly disguised as interviews), mumblin' Rudy Mancke's nature news, the bizarre cadences of the state education department's house organ, "Speaking of Schools", where SC schools win endless awards and graduation rates never improve, and promos for SCETV Radio. Then they yank a full half hour for "The Radio Reader," which, after thirty-some years, is pretty much rattling the stick in the bottom of an empty swill bucket when it comes to getting books to read. Dick Estelle's just-concluded offering was a necrophiliac's dream by a man whose wife and two sons got squashed to death by a boulder that fell on their car. So he remarried and set about making a new family of a wife and two boys and everyone maundered on about how they felt connected to the dead family and it made them feel so much better.
It was right up there, in general effect, with the lovingly-read book about the Donner Party from a couple of years ago.Just the sort of thing you want to savor as you get ready for the new day.
But I digress. What's got me rankled just now is that SCETV Radio apparently think no one will notice they are re-running the same broadcast of Michael Feldman's "Whaddya Know" they ran last week.
Seven days ago.
Oh, and if you're unhappy about stuff like this and want to write SCETV Radio execs at the email addresses they provide on their website- don't bother.
They don't answer.
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