KETC is known among viewers in St. Louis for pre-empting PBS programs to air library program content or less controversial pledge drive programs , such as WQED-produced doo-wop specials , using the default network feed in late night to premiere those PBS programs instead , though St. Louis has traditionally had stations , commercial and non-commercial , pre-empt programming from their networks due to content . KETC has given some leeway as far as some pre-emptions , such as a case where '' St. Louis Post-Dispatch '' columnist Eric Mink wrote an editorial complaining about the station 's scheduling of a pledge drive ice skating show instead of a PBS documentary on the September 11 attacks ; KETC announced the next day that it would instead air the 9/11 documentary as nationally scheduled
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