South Carolina Educational Television

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South Carolina Educational Television
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statewide South Carolina
United States
Branding ETV
Slogan Watch, Listen, Learn
Channels Digital: see table below
Subchannels xx.1 PBS
xx.2 South Carolina Channel
xx.3 ETV World
Affiliations PBS
PBS Encore/Create (DT2)
World (DT3)
Owner South Carolina Educational Television Commission
First air date September 29, 1963; 61 years ago (1963-09-29)
Sister station(s) South Carolina Public Radio
Former affiliations NET (1963–1970)
Transmitter power see table below
Height see table below
Facility ID see table below
Transmitter coordinates see table below
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Carolina Educational Television Profile
Carolina Educational Television CDBS
Website www.scetv.org

South Carolina Educational Television is a public television network serving the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is operated by the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, an agency of the state government which holds the licenses for all of the PBS member television stations licensed in the state. The broadcast signals of the eleven television stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of North Carolina and Georgia.

The network's primary operations are located on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia, across from Williams-Brice Stadium; SCETV operates satellite studios in Spartanburg, Beaufort, Sumter and Rock Hill.

History

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SCETV's first telecast in 1958, from Dreher High School.

The state network traces its history to 1957, when the South Carolina General Assembly authorized a study in the use of television in the state's public schools. A studio was opened in the library of Dreher High School in Columbia. The first telecourses (a French course taught by Madame Lucille Turney-High and a geometry course taught by Cornelia Turnbull) aired on September 8, 1958 via closed circuit television.[1] The South Carolina ETV Commission began operations on June 3, 1960, and by 1962 it extended closed-circuit television service to all 46 South Carolina counties.

In 1963, the Commission launched the first open-circuit educational station in South Carolina, WNTV in Greenville. One year later, WITV in Charleston signed on. Two years later, the state network's primary station, WRLK-TV in Columbia, made its debut. Over the years, the state network has grown to comprise eleven full-power 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 state network identifies on-air as simply "ETV."

File:SCETV Station Ident.jpg
Station identification for ETV HD (circa 2009).

The Commission entered public radio in 1972, when WEPR in Clemson signed on the air (WEPR later moved its city of license to Greenville). The state radio network eventually expanded to eight stations and was called the South Carolina Educational Radio Network (SCERN) until 2003, when it was remamed ETV Radio. While "ETV" generally refers to television, SCETV viewed "ETV" as a general brand name for both its radio and television properties. In 2015, however, the radio network rebranded as South Carolina Public Radio.

R. Lynn Kalmbach was selected as the network's first project director in 1958. Henry J. Cauthen became executive director of the network upon the death of R. Lynn Kalmbach in 1965. Paul Amos took the helm as ETV's third president in 1998. Maurice "Moss" Bresnahan joined ETV as president and CEO from 2001 to 2008. David Crouch served as president in 2009. SCETV's current president and CEO is Linda O'Bryon, who served as co-creator of the Nightly Business Report.[2]

Network

SCETV's television network consists of 11 digital transmitters that cover almost all of South Carolina, as well as eastern portions of Georgia (including Augusta and Savannah) and southern portions of North Carolina (including Charlotte and Asheville). SCETV's headquarters and main production facility is located in Columbia, with production facilities in Rock Hill, Spartanburg and Sumter.

Regional television stations

SCETV initially planned to make all eleven of its television stations capable of airing local programming. Four full-fledged stations were built and staffed in Beaufort, Rock Hill, Spartanburg and Sumter before the idea was abandoned in the early 1980s. After a massive reduction in force in 2004, the stations were downgraded to production facilities. In 2012, WJWJ-TV in Beaufort was converted into a repeater of the network.[3]

The SCETV stations are:

Station City of license
(other cities served)		 Channels
(TV / RF)		 First air date ERP HAAT Transmitter Coordinates Facility ID Public license
information
WNTV Greenville (Asheville, North Carolina) 29 (PSIP)
9 (VHF)		 September 29, 1963; 61 years ago (1963-09-29) 65 kW 377.8 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61010 Profile
CDBS
WITV Charleston 7 (PSIP)
7 (VHF)		 January 19, 1964; 60 years ago (1964-01-19) 20 kW 521 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61005 Profile
CDBS
WRLK-TV 1
"ETV Headquarters"		 Columbia 35 (PSIP)
32 (UHF)		 September 6, 1966; 58 years ago (1966-09-06) 62 kW 315.7 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61013 Profile
CDBS
WJPM-TV Florence 33 (PSIP)
45 (UHF)		 September 3, 1967; 57 years ago (1967-09-03) 45 kW 242.4 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61008 Profile
CDBS
WEBA-TV Allendale
(Aiken-Barnwell-Augusta, Georgia)		 14 (PSIP)
33 (UHF)		 September 5, 1967; 57 years ago (1967-09-05) 427 kW 241.3 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61003 Profile
CDBS
WJWJ-TV3
"ETV Lowcountry"		 Beaufort
(Hilton Head-Hardeeville-Savannah, Georgia)		 16 (PSIP)
44 (UHF)		 September 6, 1975; 49 years ago (1975-09-06) 440 kW 364.5 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61007 Profile
CDBS
WRJA-TV 2
"ETV Sumter"		 Sumter 27 (PSIP)
28 (UHF)		 September 7, 1975; 49 years ago (1975-09-07) 98.4 kW 364 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61012 Profile
CDBS
WNSC-TV 2
"ETV Carolinas"		 Rock Hill
(Charlotte, North Carolina)		 30 (PSIP)
15 (UHF)		 January 3, 1978; 46 years ago (1978-01-03) 403 kW 211.6 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61009 Profile
CDBS
WHMC Conway
(Myrtle Beach)		 23 (PSIP)
9 (VHF)		 September 2, 1980; 44 years ago (1980-09-02) 20 kW 229.6 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61004 Profile
CDBS
WRET-TV 2
"ETV Upstate"		 Spartanburg (Hendersonville, North Carolina) 49 (PSIP)
43 (UHF)		 September 8, 1980; 44 years ago (1980-09-08) 50 kW 302.1 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 61011 Profile
CDBS
WNEH Greenwood
(Anderson)		 38 (PSIP)
18 (UHF)		 September 10, 1984; 40 years ago (1984-09-10) 49 kW 229.8 m Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 60931 Profile
CDBS

Notes:

  • 1. WRLK-TV's call letters refer to R. Lynn Kalmbach, SCETV's first executive director.[4]
  • 2. WNSC-TV (branded as "ETV Carolinas"), WRJA-TV (branded as "ETV Sumter"), and WRET-TV (branded as "ETV Upstate") are regional production facilities that occasionally break off from the main feed to air locally produced programming. The other six transmitters are full-time relays of WRLK (branded as "ETV Headquarters").
  • 3. WJWJ-TV (branded as "ETV Lowcountry") previously maintained a regional production facility which was closed down in 2012.[3]

Digital television

SCETV offers three digital television services available over-the-air, and through the digital tiers of some cable television providers. ETV HD is the primary feed with high definition content from PBS and SCETV broadcast in the 1080i resolution format. The South Carolina Channel (SCC) carries the national Create service daily, with regionally produced documentary programs focusing on the Carolinas airing during the late evening hours. ETV World (ETVW) provides live newscasts from Europe, notably from Germany's Deutsche Welle and England's BBC television networks, along with live coverage from the South Carolina State House. Both SCC and ETVW are transmitted in 480i standard definition.

The lineup of the sub-channels are as follows:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
xx.1 1080i 16:9 ETV Main SCETV programming / PBS
xx.2 480i 4:3 SCC Create (12 a.m.-6 p.m.)
PBS Kids (6 p.m.-8 p.m.)
Carolina documentaries (8 p.m.-12 a.m.)
xx.3 ETVW statehouse coverage, DWTV

Analog-to-digital conversion

Despite the DTV Delay Act national transition extension to June 12, 2009, SCETV discontinued the analog signals of its 11 full-power stations at midnight on February 18, 2009.

After this, the following changes occurred:[5]

  • WITV relocated its digital signal to its former analog-era allocation on VHF channel 7,[6] which required viewers to re-scan or manually add the new station after the transition.
  • WNTV, WRLK-TV, WJPM-TV, WEBA-TV, WJWJ-TV, WRJA-TV, WNSC-TV, WHMC, WRET-TV and WNEH remained on their respective pre-transition digital channels (9, 32, 45, 33, 44, 28, 15, 9, 43 and 18).[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Each of the eleven stations use PSIP to display a virtual channel that corresponds to their former analog channel allocation.

Cable and satellite availability

SCETV's television network is carried on nearly every cable television provider in South Carolina. Additionally, Rock Hill's WNSC-TV is carried on Time Warner Cable's systems on the North Carolina side of the Charlotte market.

On DirecTV and Dish Network, WRLK-TV, WNTV, WITV, WNSC-TV, WJWJ-TV, WEBA-TV and WJPM-TV are respectively carried on the Columbia, Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville, Charleston, Charlotte, Savannah, Augusta and Florence/Myrtle Beach local feeds. The South Carolina Channel and ETV World have yet to be offered by satellite services.


Logos

The early SCETV logos lacked the human figure that was incorporated from 2000.

  • South Carolina ETV, first broadcast logo. 1963.jpg

    South Carolina Educational Television Network logo, 1963

  • South Carolina ETV logo, 1967.jpg

    South Carolina ETV Network, first color logo, 1967

  • South Carolina ETV logo, circa 1974.jpg

    South Carolina ETV logo, 1973

Programming

The South Carolina ETV television network carries most programming carried by PBS; it is one of the few PBS member stations in the country that does not carry the weekend editions of PBS NewsHour, which is seen on ETV World subchannel in lieu of the primary SCETV channel.

SCETV original programming (current and past)

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Television programming

  • A Chef's Life (with Markay Media, Peabody 2013),[17] Emmy for Outstanding Directing Lifestyle/Culinary/Travel, 2014)[18]
  • Carolina Business Review (in conjunction with UNC-TV and WTVI in Charlotte)
  • Carolina Classrooms
  • ETV Classics
  • Expeditions with Patrick McMillan
  • live coverage of the South Carolina State House
  • Making it Grow
  • Palmetto Scene

Historical: (partial)

References

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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.islandpacket.com/2012/02/02/1950600/wjwj-studios-close-for-financial.html
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  5. ↑ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  6. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231023&formid=387&fac_num=61005
  7. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231030&formid=387&fac_num=61010
  8. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231034&formid=387&fac_num=61013
  9. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231025&formid=387&fac_num=61008
  10. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231020&formid=387&fac_num=61003
  11. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231026&formid=387&fac_num=61007
  12. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231032&formid=387&fac_num=61012
  13. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231029&formid=387&fac_num=61009
  14. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231022&formid=387&fac_num=61004
  15. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231031&formid=387&fac_num=61011
  16. ↑ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231028&formid=387&fac_num=60931
  17. ↑ http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/a-chefs-life-pbs
  18. ↑ http://www.pbs.org/about/news/archive/2015/daytime-emmy-awards/

External links

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