Mon, Aug 24, 2009
We heard you loud and clear. Thanks to the many of you who wrote and asked that we keep Lawrence Welk on the air. We appreciate you taking the time to express your opinion about KTEH.
Because so many of you asked, we will continue to broadcast Lawrence Welk Saturday nights at 7p.m….. Ah-One an Ah-Two…..
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September 8th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I noticed Doc Martin is coming back. One of the greatest BBC productions ever shown on KTEH. Your trailer (tease) states that Doc Martin will return on August 28th, while the website says September 28th. Could you correct your trailer so people will know when it returns. Thanks
September 16th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Yes, Doc will be back on 9/28. It looks like you know our schedule better than we do!
thanks for catching that:)
May 4th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Jeez,
I hate hate hate this program. I am never watching or pledging to KTEH again. How you keep this crappy repeat stuff on your channel and at the same time cancel Eastenders is beyond my comprehension. Do you really think people will pledge because this show is on the air. Well, maybe my 90 year old grandmother would - if she was alive (which she is not)but otherwise - wake up!
May 8th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Who on earth wants to watch Lawrence Welk in this day and age? Who are your viewers?
It's really hard to believe you've cancelled one of the most popular British programs of all times - East Enders - and continue to show dated boring rubbish like Lawrence Welk.
KTEH it's time to get modern. I think you are seriously in jeopardy in losing many viewers if you keep making these kind of programming decisions.
May 16th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Absolutely appalling that re-runs of Lawrence Welk shows constitute KTEH's idea of good programming. I can't change the channel fast enough. KTEH programmers, get your heads out of the sand and think about programming that will grow your customer base, not diminish it.
May 17th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
you stab the loyal EastEnders viewers in the 6 million metro SF Bay area IN THE BACK, and then you put this on? and "Quest" or whatever the hell that piece of mediocrity is called? it's not clear whether your mendacity is greater than your stupidity… I hope your station goes BROKE
May 21st, 2010 at 5:42 pm
The only person I've ever known who would willingly watch Lawrence Welk is my deceased for a decade grandmother who would be 106 now. What audience are you really going for?
This post feels like yet another slap in the face to the loyal EE fans. Your responses to us just seem so much like you are talking down to us and trying to shut us up. You realize that making us go away will ensure our pledges stay away?
I made sure to ask when I pledged to KQED radio that it does NOT go to support the tv stations at all.
May 26th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
KTEH and their fascist overlords KQED need to be hit where it hurts: in their pocketbook….let's pray their memberships PLUMMET to HELL, and their fat, overpaid, prematurely balding idiot managers are brought to heel…bring back EastEnders!
August 19th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
I still cannot figure out why Lawerence Welk is on your station! It was corny (without being campy)and tacky when I was a teenager in the 60s-70s, and now that I'm a senior citizen it's just anachronistic. Please get rid of it. The frozen smiles, the hairspray, the baby-blue polyester suits, the Muzak….oh the humanity.
August 20th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Andie,
Sounds like you've seen one bouffant too many! I venture to guess you are not alone in your opinion of the Lawrence Welk Show.
However; strange as it may seem, Welk has a tremendous and supportive audience.
Try to put the enthusiastic accordion player out of your mind and Please enjoy our many other programs
February 18th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
"Welk has a tremendous and supportive audience."
Oh, come on. Let's finish the above sentence, shall we? Here goes:
Welk has a tremendous and supportive, albeit small and dying, audience of 90+ year olds who have remembered KTEH, et al., in their wills. Alternatively, these audience members live in $5000+/mo. investor-backed assisted living facilities that support the program in exchange for some (or all of) the following privileges: tax write-offs that enhance their public image and bottom line; running their ads on PBS stations; having a group activity (in this case, watching TV in a communal room) to cite in their ads; having an electronic babysitter in lieu of hiring extra staff; and having (perhaps occasionally excitable) inmates cheaply, effectively, and electronically lobotomized by the program.
Chase every dollar now before the ship tanks, eh? Or perhaps the ship isn't sinking; perhaps it is gradually being privatized out of existence. Does KTEH and other PBS station broadcast Lawrence Welk and similarly dull programs (e.g., Quest, Check please) in a bid to help PBS lose its popular and Congressional support so that it is forced to undergo back-door, de-facto full privatization and become another commercial or cable TV network that is run by investors and overpaid executives and broadcasts sitcoms, police dramas, lucrative ads, and cheaply made and produced reality shows and infotainment programs?