South Carolina Educational Television
PBS member network in South Carolina
South Carolina Educational Television (branded South Carolina ETV, SCETV or simply ETV) is a state network of PBS member television stations 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 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 at the SCETV Telecommunications Center on the campus of the University of South Carolina on George Rogers Boulevard across from Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia; SCETV operates satellite studios inside the Media Building on the campus of the University of South Carolina Upstate on University Way in Spartanburg, on North Harvin Street in Sumter, inside the C Building on the campus of York Technical College on South Anderson Road in Rock Hill, and on the campus of the Technical College of the Lowcountry on Ribaut Road in Beaufort.
History
The South Carolina General Assembly in 1958 authorized a study to see if instructional television could assist the state's public schools. Dreher High School in Columbia, South Carolina lent its library to be the study's studio. The first courses (a French course taught by Madame Lucille Turney-High and a geometry course taught by Cornelia Turnbull) were transmitted on September 8, 1958, via closed-circuit television. Following the study's success, the South Carolina Educational Television Commission (ETV) was created as a state agency, on July 1, 1960. By 1962 ETV extended closed-circuit, classroom television service to most South Carolina counties.
In 1963, the Commission launched the first open-circuit (broadcast) educational station in South Carolina, WNTV in Greenville.
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