SCETV
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South Carolina Educational Television
statewide South Carolina
Branding	ETV South Carolina
Channels	Analog: see table below Digital: see table below
Subchannels	(see article)
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	South Carolina Educational Television Commission
Founded	September 1963
Former affiliations	NET (1963-1970)
Transmitter Power	see table below
Height	see table below
Facility ID	see table below
Transmitter Coordinates	see table below
Website	www.myetv.org

South Carolina Educational Television is the statewide public television and public radio network in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It consists of all the PBS member television stations and NPR member radio stations in the state. It is operated by the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, an agency of the state government.

History

Station identification for SCETV HD, c. 2008.

The network traces its history to 1957, when the General Assembly authorized a study in the use of television in the state's public schools. A studio opened in the state capital, Columbia, a year later. The Commission began operations on June 3, 1960, and by 1962 extended television service to all 46 of South Carolina's counties. Also in 1963, the Commission opened the first educational television station in South Carolina, WNTV in Greenville. A year later, WITV in Charleston signed on. Two years later, the network's flagship, WRLK-TV in Columbia, signed on. The network is now comprised of 16 stations. After years of receiving NET and PBS programs on tape-delay, it entered PBS' satellite network in 1978. In 2000, SCETV broadcast the first digital television program in the state. Since 2003, the network has been known on-air as simply "ETV South Carolina."

The Commission entered public radio in 1972, when WEPR in Greenville signed on. Eventually, the network expanded to eight stations and was known as the South Carolina Educational Radio Network (SCERN) until 2003, when it became known as ETV Radio -- while "ETV" generally refers to television, SCETV views "ETV" as a general brand name for all SCETV-related media, not just television.

Television

SCETV's television network consists of 11 stations that cover almost all of South Carolina, as well as parts of Georgia and North Carolina. All stations are currently available in analog and digital. SCETV programming is generally the same statewide, though some stations show some local programs pertinent to their region.

As of 2008, the SCETV stations are:

Notes:

• 1. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says WNTV signed on September 15, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on September 29.
• 2. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says WRLK-TV signed on September 5, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on September 6.
• 3. WNSC-TV, WRJA-TV, WRET-TV and WJWJ-TV are full-fledged stations that break off from the main signal at WRLK-TV in Columbia to produce regional programs. The other five stations are operated as full-time relay stations.
• 4. WNSC-TV originally started as a low-powered translator on channel 55 in 1974 before moving to a full-powered signal on channel 30 in 1978.
• 5. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says WRET-TV signed on September 4, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on September 8.

Digital television

There are several ATSC digital television signals broadcasted over digital channels above which are available over-the-air with a digital tuner, or through digital cable service. With either, there are offerings of three sub-channels. SCETV's digital channels map to their analog channel numbers. SCETV HD is a simulcast of the high definition PBS-DT2 feed at a screen resolution of 1080i.

The lineup of the sub-channels are as follows:

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown scheduled^[1] to take place on February 17, 2009:

• WITV and WHMC will return to channels 7^[2] and 9^[3] respectively.
• WNTV, WRLK-TV, WJPM-TV, WEBA-TV, WJWJ-TV, WRJA-TV, WNSC-TV, WRET-TV, and WNEH will remain on their present, pre-transition digital channel numbers (9, 32, 45, 33, 44, 28, 15, 43, and 18). ^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display virtual channels for each SCETV station corresponding to their present analog channel numbers.

Radio

SCETV Radio consists of eight FM transmitters covering almost all of South Carolina and parts of Georgia and North Carolina.

Three of them broadcast a mix of NPR information programs and classical music; five of them broadcast strictly NPR news and information. However, they simulcast NPR's more popular shows, such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

News and classical music

News and information

Until 2001, all of the stations aired a format similar to the Classical stations today. WJWJ-FM was the first station to switch to all-news, as its signal overlaps with Charleston's WSCI and and Savannah's WSVH, both of which broadcast classical music. By 2003, the stations had split into their current networks.

Until the rebranding to ETV Radio, WJWJ-FM, WSCI, and WEPR had local studios with occasional local shows. Due to budget cuts and the creation of the two ETV Radio networks, all stations now are fed programming directly from Columbia, although ETV maintains several local offices.

From 2001 to 2008, WNSC-FM in Rock Hill broke off from the rest of the network to air jazz music in order to avoid programming duplication with WFAE in Charlotte. However, starting on July 1, 2008, WNSC-FM joined the NPR News network. SCETV president Moss Bresnahan told The Charlotte Observer that SCETV didn't want to deny people on the South Carolina side of the Charlotte market access to SCETV's growing slate of local programming. The move left the Charlotte market without a jazz station of its own.^[13] Ironically, WNSC was the Charlotte area's first NPR station when it signed on in 1979; WFAE didn't sign on until 1981.

Logos

SCETV and SCERN's logo from 1978 to 2003

SCETV's secondary logo from 2000 to 2003

The present logo, used since 2003

SCETV original programming (current and past)

• At Home Southern Style
• Firing Line
• NatureScene (SCETV's long-running outdoors program, syndicated to PBS stations nationwide)
• Making it Grow
• Carolina Journal
• Jobman Caravan
• Stateline
• Palmetto Places
• Carolina Business Review (in conjunction with UNC-TV in North Carolina and WTVI in Charlotte, North Carolina)
• State House Tonight
• Mary Long's Yesteryear (no longer in production, Mary Long died in 1998, but reruns continue on ETV as well as on SC Channel on cable)
• The Magic School Bus (Animated Nelvana/Ellipse production based on the children's book series; presented by SCETV and aired on PBS from 1994-1998)
• Sandlapper's Corner (Late 1970s children's educational show focused on South Carolina culture and history)
• Profile (Part of the ETV Classics series branding)
• Studio See (SCETV's magazine-style children's show, seen nationwide on PBS in the late-1970s and early-1980s)
• Under The Blue Umbrella (In-school program from the 1970s that dealt with a single-subject; nationally-syndicated to PBS stations)
• Under The Yellow Balloon (Similar to Blue Umbrella; from the early-1980s)
• Six Gun Heroes (1980s series on the western stars from the golden age of cinema; also seen nationwide on PBS stations)
• The Dooley and Pals Show (SCETV distributes the secular version of this children's series to PBS stations)

ETV occasionally broadcasts college sports from various state colleges in South Carolina.

References

1. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
2. ^ FCC CDBS Print - WITV-DT 7
3. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231022&formid=387&fac_num=61004 FCC CDBS Print WHMC-DT 9
4. ^ CDBS Print
5. ^ CDBS Print
6. ^ CDBS Print
7. ^ CDBS Print
8. ^ CDBS Print
9. ^ CDBS Print
10. ^ CDBS Print
11. ^ CDBS Print
12. ^ CDBS Print
13. ^ Washburn, Mark. Sorry, Jazz fans, change may have you singing blues. The Charlotte Observer, 2008-07-01.

External links

• SCETV official site
• SCETV regional stations
• WJWJ-TV official site
• WNSC-FM-TV official site
• WRET-TV official site
• The South Carolina Channel
• ETV Radio official site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNTV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WITV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WRLK-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WJPM-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WEBA-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WJWJ-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WRJA-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNSC-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WHMC
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WRET-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNEH
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WLJK
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WJWJ-FM
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WSCI
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WLTR
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WHMC-FM
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WEPR
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNSC-FM
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WRJA-FM