Many stations packaging their own kids’ channels
With the all-digital future arriving, if haltingly, and a bigger share of viewers likely to come through DTV multicast channels, public TV stations are reconsidering how to use their bitstream, making...
View ArticleWorld multicast channel: an incubator for diversity?
WGBH and WNET are “re-imaging and re-engineering” the PBS World documentary-oriented multicast channel, which has been picked up by only about 40 of the 170-plus public TV licensees.
View ArticleFriday roundup: WYPR union effort stalls; Downton Abbey reportedly bans...
Plus: Mike Starling starts an LPFM station, and NPR's creative director talks about her work process.
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New channel in Pittsburgh: All-pledge, all the time
The all-pledge Showcase channel in Pittsburgh may face limits on the number of times it can repeat some national pledge specials, but it can call on almost 20 years of QED Cooks episodes starring chef...
View ArticlePubTV multicaster V-me faulted for airing ‘ordinary commercials’
V-me, the Spanish-language multicast channel carried by 42 public TV stations, pulled underwriting spots from its schedule last month amid complaints about potential violations of FCC standards for...
View ArticleMulticasts tailored to local priorities
Bolstered by ratings data on their digital multicast channels and years of experience in managing them, public TV station programmers in many markets are refining their channel lineups.
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