Merger no way to improve CA Public TV

MERGER NO WAY TO IMPROVE KTEH
[SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News, AUTHOR: Rhawn Joseph, BrainMind.com]
[Commentary] To the astonishment of many, the ``we know best'' crowd at KQED and KTEH, acting in secret, and without benefit of public input or discussion, has decreed that KTEH should become a satellite of its big sister in San Francisco. The two stations are to merge and KTEH shall become a dumping ground for programming apparently too boring and insipid for the small slice of the Bay Area population pandered to by the privately owned, corporate-funded KQED. Rather than responding with alarm or indignation at this insult and anti-competitive, monopolistic threat to the public airways, the San Jose Mercury News has editorialized in support of the merger. Would the South Bay and the city of San Jose also be better served if the Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle were to merge? Rather than a satellite station, San Jose needs an independent public TV station that would challenge and compete with KQED, thus offering the entire Bay Area a viable South Bay-based alternative to the TV station that rules from San Francisco. The incompetent management at KTEH should be replaced with a creative, independent team that can think and program outside the box. A recipe for success should include locally produced programming.
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