(Editors note: Remember Eliot? He's back.)
As the only statewide television service in Oklahoma (if you do not count KSBI or KFOR's transponders), OETA has a charge to educate and inform Oklahomans. Unfortunately, for their news service, that means reporting on the very body that provides OETA with its budget. Laying aside their dubious success in accomplishing this mission, OETA has some money flow problems. The legislature is not giving OETA more money, and evidently the OETA endowment exists to draw compound interest. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting can't sell real commercials. How OETA pay for itself? Lacking a solution, we'll all have to listen to the whiny liberal Montessori-educated cries of "you're gonna kill Big Bird and Elmo!