The KCET Fallout Continues
Hello, everybody!
Well, here it is. The week in which we have absolutely nothing to talk about. True, Halloween is next week, but that's next week. This past week was rainy and gloomy, and that's about all that happened. Today's weather in the southland has been pretty good, though. I really don't know how well it's going to be in the coming week. I hope everything's dry for Halloween so that all the ghost and goblins don't get wet while collecting all their Halloween loot. I and my band, however, have a gig at a party on Halloween night, so I sincerely hope our instruments don't get wet. You can't imagine how out of tune a guitar sounds when it's soak and wet.
Oh well, people here in Southern California are very PO'd about the fact that their favorite public TV station, KCET, is leaving the PBS mothership, present company included. In fact, they are so PO'd, that they're not even waiting until the first of the year to bail out on KCET. They, and their donation dollars, are defecting to neighboring KOCE in Orange County now! And I really can't say that I blame them. After all, KCET has been a part of Southern California life for almost a half a century. Do you know how long that is? So you can imagine how frustrating it is for us out here in "The Big Orange" when we found out that Los Angeles won't be having its very own PBS affiliate anymore. Luckily for us, Orange County has one, and that's where all of Southern California will be heading for from now on. After all, most of the TV and radio stations out here do say that they service Los Angeles and Orange County.
Because, as I'm sure a whole lot of you would agree, it would be a huge tragedy to lose the flagship PBS programming that we all have grown accustomed to watching, like Masterpiece, Mystery, Nova, Nature, Great Performances, Washington Week In Review, The PBS News Hour, and, or course, the groundbreaking kids shows Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which is still being shown in reruns. And I, for one, sincerely hope that KOCE in Orange County (and Los Angeles) will be here in Southern California for a very, very long time.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to help the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
Well, here it is. The week in which we have absolutely nothing to talk about. True, Halloween is next week, but that's next week. This past week was rainy and gloomy, and that's about all that happened. Today's weather in the southland has been pretty good, though. I really don't know how well it's going to be in the coming week. I hope everything's dry for Halloween so that all the ghost and goblins don't get wet while collecting all their Halloween loot. I and my band, however, have a gig at a party on Halloween night, so I sincerely hope our instruments don't get wet. You can't imagine how out of tune a guitar sounds when it's soak and wet.
Oh well, people here in Southern California are very PO'd about the fact that their favorite public TV station, KCET, is leaving the PBS mothership, present company included. In fact, they are so PO'd, that they're not even waiting until the first of the year to bail out on KCET. They, and their donation dollars, are defecting to neighboring KOCE in Orange County now! And I really can't say that I blame them. After all, KCET has been a part of Southern California life for almost a half a century. Do you know how long that is? So you can imagine how frustrating it is for us out here in "The Big Orange" when we found out that Los Angeles won't be having its very own PBS affiliate anymore. Luckily for us, Orange County has one, and that's where all of Southern California will be heading for from now on. After all, most of the TV and radio stations out here do say that they service Los Angeles and Orange County.
Because, as I'm sure a whole lot of you would agree, it would be a huge tragedy to lose the flagship PBS programming that we all have grown accustomed to watching, like Masterpiece, Mystery, Nova, Nature, Great Performances, Washington Week In Review, The PBS News Hour, and, or course, the groundbreaking kids shows Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which is still being shown in reruns. And I, for one, sincerely hope that KOCE in Orange County (and Los Angeles) will be here in Southern California for a very, very long time.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to help the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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