Panda Express,
and on 1 of only 3 TV screens in the place, they are broadcasting a channel i have never seen before on Cox or Verizon called "uncTV."
my mind goes, "Yipes, the uncheats have got a channel! what happened to the ACCN?!"
i watch a while and programming is sure enough about culture, events, educational achievements, etc. of NC with some scenes shot at cheater hill; … more worry. i'm bracing for a Fedora or Williams commercial at any moment.
being rude to my company, i feign needing to make a google search regarding the restaurant. instead i search "uncTV." found an "general educational oriented" broadcasting system of the university of north carolina system:
[from Wikipedia]
"University of North Carolina Television, branded on-air as UNC-TV, is a public television network serving the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is operated by the University of North Carolina system, which holds the licenses for all thirteen PBS member television stations licensed in the state except WTVI (channel 42) in Charlotte, which is owned by Central Piedmont Community College. The broadcast signals of the twelve television stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The network's operations are located at the UNC Center for Public Television at Research Triangle Park between Raleigh and Durham.
History
WUNC-TV in Chapel Hill, the state network's flagship station, first signed on the air on January 8, 1955 as the first non-commercial educational television station located south of Washington, D.C.. Over the next twelve years, four more satellite stations signed on. WUND-TV in Edenton was the first of these satellites to debut in September 1965, followed by the launches of WUNE-TV in Linville in September 1967, WUNF-TV in Asheville in September 11, 1967, WUNG-TV in Concord in September 11, 1967 and WUNJ-TV in Wilmington in June 4, 1971. This was supplemented with a network of translator stations in the Appalachian Mountains that also allowed the network's programming to reach across the entire state.
Three additional satellites debuted afterward: WUNK-TV in Greenville in May 1972, WUNL-TV in Winston-Salem in February 1973, and finally WUNM-TV in Jacksonville in November 1982. The state network's youngest station, WUNW in Canton, signed on in July 2010 to replace a translator that had served the area since the 1980s. The state network was branded on-air as "North Carolina Public Television" (identified in North Carolina editions of TV Guide as "CPT", an abbreviated form of "University of North Carolina Center for Public Television") from 1979 to the mid-1990s, when it rebranded itself as "University of North Carolina Television". It simplified the brand name to "UNC-TV" later in the 1990s; it had previously used that brand for most of the 1970s.
Programming
The state network produces many programs of local interest, including the weeknightly public affairs program North Carolina Now, Our State, Carolina Outdoor Journal, Exploring North Carolina, North Carolina Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, and special programs about the state's history and culture. It also produces The Woodwright's Shop for national distribution. In addition to PBS and American Public Television programs and local productions, the station also runs British comedies on Saturday evenings and the BBC soap opera EastEnders on Sunday evenings. …"
with a state-wide network already in place (and tax-payer funded even) - even if it is not dedicated to just one of the traditional tobacco road ACC 'colleges' - couldn't uncheaters, puppypack, dooke, and wake combine to produce and broadcast athletic events as part of this channel's daily programming? (i know wake and dooke are private and technically not part of the "university of north carolina system"; and probably accommodation would have to be made for unc-charlotte, -greensboro, -wilmington, etc., as well).
it sure looks like an opportunity waiting for the NC athletic departments to exploit!
i'm sure there are PBS rules governing the programming content; but rules can be changed for the benefit of the privileged! or circumnavigated and subverted - just like false classes can be created.
your thoughts? explanations? [sorry about the length]
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