re: #554 dragonath

IIRC, the last president of the station eschewed federal funding. It gets a lot of its funding from the local Diocese, which makes me wonder if that’s why some of the good ribald British comedies are missing. I know some local people were offended by one of them.

Pittsburgh used to have two PBS stations. WQED was the more high-brow station and showed the classical music, theatre, NOVA, etc. and was on almost 24/7. WQEX used the same offices and did most of the Britcoms, Dr Who, Red Green Show, and had limited broadcasting hours.

WQEX eventually sort of folded and the channel and frequency was sold to a Christian broadcasting network.

I miss the WQEX sign-off bit. There were a few variants of it and it was generally amusing. One ran while “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life” was playing and they’d send out for more credits since the song was still playing - so they’d start running fictional sports scores. :)

Another featured B-grade animation of an alien flying saucer destroying downtown Pittsburgh.