DUBIOUS ECONOMICS …
“Myrtle Manor” – the TLC redneck reality television show filmed in a Myrtle Beach, S.C. trailer park – is worth a whopping $101 million to the local economy, a new study is suggesting.
And that’s a “conservative” estimate, according to the study’s author.
Karen Maguire – an accounting professor at Coastal Carolina University – allegedly came up with her total by adding values from several different categories: Spending by the show’s cast and crew, retail sales and the value of the publicity the program generated, to name a few.
And yes … she’s honest-to-God claiming this white trash “docu-drama” has brought in $101 million to the Grand Strand since it debuted in 2013.
Do we buy Maguire’s analysis? Not really …
Government-funded colleges and universities are notorious for producing “economic impact” studies which dramatically overstate values using all sorts of “multipliers.”
Seriously … they could make a one-man hot dog stand responsible for a billion-dollars worth of “economic impact.”
(Wait … aren’t there “weiner girls” on this show?)
Whatever the show has brought in, the issue appears to be moot.
TLC hasn’t renewed Myrtle Manor for a fourth season after its most recent 10-episode run averaged less than 650,000 viewers. The show averaged more than a million viewers during its first two seasons.
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Sic is partial to the “upper class” white trash piece of crap “reality show” set in Charleston, of course.
Six of the people on Welcome To Myrtle Manor, including the owners, are my cousins, so I don’t diss it. The Patricks, who own Patrick’s Mobile Home Park (the actual Myrtle Manor set is in the rear of that trailer park) give back to the community in many ways, donating to a variety of good causes.
Tourists do come to Myrtle Beach just to see the site of “Myrtle Manor.” Even though it has not been renewed. Of course, since the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce hates the show, they won’t give people directions to it from their main office. Instead they send them to “Myrtle Beach Manor”, a nursing home facility.
Assholes.
Of course, since the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce hates the show, the won’t give people directions their from their main office. Instead they send them to “Myrtle Beach Manor”, a nursing home facility.
You are a liar.This is NOT true.I work in that office.
No hell you don’t, pogo.
lol
Pogo pretending he is employed, now THAT is funny.
The CITY, btw, loves the show. Chamber and City are not always on the same page.
I like your style Boz.Like you, I find men attractive.The cross dressing thing comes in handy.
Any advice?
Can’t help you. I don’t find men the least bit attractive. As I’ve said before, by my very nature, if I were gay, I’d shout if from the rooftops.
I don’t cross-dress. Can’t wear heels, don’t like makeup. No fun in it.
Go smoke a rope, pogo.
Let it be noted that pogo has deleted yet another Disgus account — one spoofing Taz.
No matter how angry that moron makes you, save a little sadness for the fact that he doesn’t get help for his problem.
Or laid enough.
Oh, I am not without compassion for pogo.
It just doesn’t come to the surface often.
Fuck all 3 of you homo’s.
I have to warn you, your is mouth going to be really sore.
Flipogo, there is no apostrophe when it’s possessive. Get yoself some larnin’, boy.
Spare us your wet dreams.
Ya just won’t stop,will ya. Okay.Stay tuned.
Oh, holy shit!
I so askeered!
lol
Right “Buz”…Guest • 5 years ago
Jeffy01, this ain’t the piddling, corrupt SC Ethics Commission with their thumbs up their asses, or the understaffed and underfunded (and by no means immune to pressures from the Good Old Boys) SLED we’re talking about here, ya know. It’s da Feds, pal.
I defy you to cite one single historical instance where the FBI and the IRS have jointly investigated a case like this for over a year and nothing ever came of it. That is just a tired line that is being spouted locally and in Columbia by people who fervently WISH it would all go away, for whatever reason, and dirty pols who hope they can buy back some diminished political capital between now and November by convincing enough people that this total line of bullshit it true.
It’s just like the idiotic assertion by Brad Dean of the MBACC that MB out-performed Orlando in the last few months, or David Brittain, one of the two likely sources of almost ALL the donations in question, claiming we had the best Summer in 50 years. Nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Investigations of this kind do not even get to the point they were at when first this one was first reported by the Sun News and FITS unless they already basically know what happened and who the perps are.
Everything that comes after that is just making the evil dooers sweat and getting more of ’em to rat each other out, etc., to make a better and stronger case for DOJ.
They did shut down the investigation for almost a year. Not long after I wrote that. It got started up again. I have seen no indication that it is not still on.
As Wills stated recently, it is “still unresolved.”
A CHICKENSHIT posts SHIT like this:
Boz Martin
October 31, 2013
11:00 AM
So … The ASSOCIATED PRESS now has the story of Wayne Gray and his
hidden-for-years bank dealings involving Coach Rogers’ allegedly
ripped-off widow, highlighting the “stolen” file — all of this taken
from the David Wren story in the Sun News. It’s gettin’ hot all up in
heah now, y’all, for the troubled incumbent MB City Councilman.
http://www.thestate.com/2013/10/31/3069457/horry-county-tightens-access-to.html
Usually, one has to be a celebrity to get an obsessive, malevolent stalker like you. How did I get so lucky?
You have prided yourself on social media for years as being a celebrity and public person, carnival barker.
Well. Leave it to you to take that shit seriously.
Is he a she and an old ex-wife?
No. My ex has next to no computer skills. Most “stuck in the 80’s” person I know.
I do have an ex-girlfriend in Ohio, but she bears me no ill will, and would rather be poked in both eyes by sharp sticks than to banter about politics on a blog like this.
A Chickenshit posts bull shit like this:
Boz Martin
October 31, 2013
11:00 AM
So … The ASSOCIATED PRESS now has the story of Wayne Gray and his
hidden-for-years bank dealings involving Coach Rogers’ allegedly
ripped-off widow, highlighting the “stolen” file — all of this taken
from the David Wren story in the Sun News. It’s gettin’ hot all up in
heah now, y’all, for the troubled incumbent MB City Councilman.
For the record, Gray was re-elected, but by such a small margin he was no longer mayor pro tem. He blamed me at the time, I’m told. There have been no hostilities between us since then, and I’ve had several cordial in-person conversations with his father — who at one time wanted my head on a pike.
Things change. People change. Well, most of us, anyway.
lol…he should have blamed you. The things you posted about him and his family DAY AFTER DAY on TSN and on other social media was libelous.It was like you lived in the dumpster of Fuddruckers. :)
Seriously.I am glad you made ‘nice’ with dad.Good choice. My attorney at the time in Conway told me to stay the hell away from him (on another matter).
Have a nice weekend.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s old news. I am not at war with Wayne Gray. Get over it.
Was Irby Walker your attorney in Conway?
He’s in the “Big House” now, ya know.
When will the dirty leftist end his Disqus killing spree?
Yeah, they’re two different people!!!! I can assure you, they are not!!!!!
When I click onto one of these threads that he spams I wonder am I on Fitsnews or Flipsnews.
I always notice his time spent on FITS coincides with the posting of other news articles somewhere else.
Guest • 5 years ago
Covered that right good there, Sic.
Don’t even need my new signiture on this one. It’s all in there.
The tide is about to turn down around here, no matter how long it takes for the resignations and perp walks to begin.
Some of the old money in Myrtle Beach has now had it up to the eyeballs with with these grotesque jerks in charge of MB now, and are moving to pull the plug on their machine. That includes some who were with them in the past, but now clearly see that they are destroying the prosperity that they worked so hard to build over the years, and for the most part are doing it for the further empowerment and enrichment of one or two men, via the massive real estate fire sales they created with the SCAM of “ChamberGate”. (Continued)
(Continued)That the main money-man of that corrupt cabal, who I shall not name here (others are invited to do so if they choose) is the lesser son of one of the founders of the city will not stay these powerful men from doing what must be done.
I’ve not been sworn to secrecy on this, but in fact I can’t say more without having said way too much, in my own opinion. Sometimes I am actually able of true discetion. But this is very real, it’s very serious, and it spells the beginning of the end of the reign of terror that we’ve all been through in recent years.
The first resignations and first indictments from the US DOJ will speed it along, for sure … but what has promted this corrective action by wiser elders is simply how damned painfully obvious it is that they have taken our once-great beach resort straight down the crapper in an alarmingly short period of time — and now threated to take the entire county down with it if they are not pulled up short, and SOON!
Anyway you look at it … the times they are a-changin’ (again!)
A CLASSIC!
Thank you.
For what? Showing that you lied and made all this shit up while apparently getting The Sun News and David Wren sued?
Okay dude!
Your delusions know no bounds.
gnite
Shouldn’t you be checking on the highway department’s preparedness right now?
Shouldn’t you be getting Will’s coffee right now?
He broke my heart in the trailer park…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seFqawsUwUQ
Thanks, shouldn’t have laffed thru it because I just know that was some guy’s true misery ….. but I did!
yeah,well-better than crying
Watch out.My baby girl’s a sensation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpSOWfFtKJE
The study cited is a year old, but was brought up in a recent Sun News article about the fate of the show.
White trash and rednecks have been bring their cash to Myrtle Beach for decades.
Nothing like banging a babe in a trailer on a rainy night. Those were the days.
Why is a rainy night better than say a sunny morning, or cloudy afternoon? Or foggy morning, or clear summer night?
Now that is funny! My guess is he could take a shower at the same time.
I think it is because the sound of the rain. Helps ya concentrate, and the moans are louder. That could be it.
Good enough for me!!!!! Bring on the rain!!!!
I used to call that the Cinderella situation. Traveling in rural areas for my job, stopping in to a local honky tonk, one in Alabama actually had the chicken wire for the stage, and picking up a former Miss Orange/Grapefruit/Watermelon/Strawberry/Cotton/Peanut etc. (I think I’ve had sex with about all the agricultural possibilities, except cucumber of course!) and waking up in a built-in-furniture love nest complete with Reynolds wrap curtains. Man did i ever used to drink!
I could top ya. Maybe later. That is good though. Next, worst places to ever wake up, after drinking .
LOL, bring your A game! Hint:better include barnyard animals.
You win!
You have me beat in the foreign countries I would imagine.
I may turn loose one of my experiences later this week —- it occurred in
Q: What’s an Amish woman’s favorite
sexual fantasy?
A: Two Mennonite.
“Met her in a local honky-tonk,
Told her it was love at first sight.
She was just a-lookin’ for a shoulder to cry on
And a place where she could spend the night.
Me, I was a little nervous – I’d never been that far before,
So I told her the three biggest lies in the world
As we danced across the floor.
I said, “This’ll only hurt for a little while,
I’ll only put the head of it in.
I promise that I’ll never try to cum in your mouth.”
Ok, now, which one of those gals nicknamed you “maniac” — and don’t lie ..!!
Actually, that name was given by my family because i was hyper and little. It was reinstated in my adult years by my hyper production style cutting meat for Winn-Dixie and my many fistfights and foot races with shoplifters. A new guy saw me rush by and said “That guy is a spaz.” and the head cashier told him “don’t let him hear that, he is more of a Taz.” and it stuck from there. As far as the maniac part, I was always a work hard, play harder guy and the WD life was a party for sure.
Thanks — a very inspirational story!
Oh and I forgot to make it perfectly clear, there were NO feathers or goat fur in the area were I woke up at and I did NOT have to get treated by a Veterinarian later. I missed Miss Chitlin” Strut, but that is OK because I’m not into the kind of sex that she probably likes.
WHEW! Thank goodness — I didn’t want to embarrass you or have you bring up any unpleasant memories of that escapade. Laetr on I’ll tell the tale about when a buddy and I got drunk and went to the Collard Festival — and narrowly escaped a jail sentence…..( Score Card for Shifty on his low crimes and misdemeanors: no indictments and no convictions)
Taz, I just saved that tale in my “Ideas For Future Short Stories/Poems/Movie Scripts That I Have Stolen From Other Folks”
The next voice you hear will be —-
“Are YOU my Daddy?”
The really funny thing is that Myrtle Manor has more viewers than every segment of MSNBC and CNN and is almost as real…
The funny thing is that the ratings are at the entertainment shows on the broadcast networks.
And, the network nightly news shows each have 7 million+ viewers every night. Until the GOP debates, the highest rating Fox News ever had for a single show (a special with the guy who said he shot bin Laden) was 3.5 million, almost double it’s usual viewership.
Cable has scored with The Walking Dead and a very few others that have done almost as well to a little better than Big Bang Theory at times.
Clearly the non traditional “networks” are poised to take over “TV”. They can get away with a lot more, can move much faster and are willing to take chances on things that the “Big Three” wouldn’t. Network TV as we know it will be gone in 10 years barring some epic shifts by the traditional networks..
And they re so damned unattractive.