Last June, the McHenry County College Board voted to lay out $10,000 for periodic advertisements on the Public Broadcasting System station in DeKalb.
I was astounded, since reception in my car (where I listen to radio) is spotty in Crystal Lake and points north where most people live in McHenry County.
So, when I can get the station without static (and, even sometimes with static), I’ve been trying to catch an MCC ad.
Going to Rockford for Zane Seipler’s wrongful termination court hearings, I listen to the station.
Tonight I heard my first one.
In Crystal Lake.
It was pitching seminars and gave the MCC web address and, I think, “slash, seminars.”
I wonder if there was any response.
The radio station’s internal search engine directed me to this message: