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South Carolina Public Radio is the National Public Radio member network serving the state of South Carolina. It is operated by the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, an agency of the South Carolina state government. It is a sister network to South Carolina Educational Television. The network's primary operations are located on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia, across from Williams-Brice Stadium. Satellite studios are located in Spartanburg, Beaufort, Sumter and Rock Hill. The network's eight stations provide at least secondary coverage to nearly all of South Carolina, plus portions of North Carolina and Georgia. ==History== The Educational Television Commission had its mission broadened to include radio in the late 1960s. In 1972, WEPR in Clemson (now in Greenville) signed on the air as the state's first public radio station. Seven more transmitters signed on in the 1970s and 1980s. Until 2001, the stations were known as the "South Carolina Educational Radio Network," airing a mix of classical music and NPR news and talk. However, since much of the state gets grade B coverage from at least two full NPR member stations, the ETV Commission opted to split the radio stations into two networks. Four stations continued to air a mix of classical music and NPR programming, while three aired an expanded schedule of NPR news and talk. The eighth station, WNSC-FM in Rock Hill, began airing exclusively jazz music in order to avoid programming duplication with WFAE in Charlotte. In 2003, SCERN rebranded as "ETV Radio" in order to link the radio stations more closely with their television sisters. In 2009, ETV Radio began streaming both the Classical and News networks on the Internet; prior to this, it had been one of the few NPR members not to offer live streaming online. In 2011, listeners gave $1.5 million in donations toward the construction of a new studio facility, which opened in April 2013. In August 2015, ETV president Linda O'Byron announced that in response to a listener survey, ETV Radio would rebrand as South Carolina Public Radio.〔O'Byron, Linda. (SCETV President's Corner, September 2015 ). South Carolina Educational Television, August 2015.〕 The name change took full effect in September. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South Carolina Public Radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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