RE: PBS CEO Warns That Federal Cuts will Sink Some Stations
July 30, 2017 at 11:09 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2017 at 11:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 30, 2017 at 8:32 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Is OTA TV dying regardless ??That's against the very -idea- of public television. Public television is TV that's free...and until people can get free internet, that means over the air.
How many houses in your neighbor hood have a TV antenna on the roof ??
Instead of pulling the plug on some stations, perhaps PBS needs to be looking at pulling the plug on all stations and look at a cheaper internet based delivery vehicle.
BTW, for independent documentaries and probably quite a bit of other content, is PBS an unnecessary middleman ?? What's stopping indies from going directly from their final edit to online distribution ??
What ever administrative burden PBS is imposing could instead be funding more content. Seems like we need more exposes these days as it is and eliminating bottlenecks in the distribution stream might vex the very people who we need to see exposed the most.
(July 30, 2017 at 9:35 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: If any TV entity can (and should) embrace going online, it's PBS. They have decades' worth of still relevant educational programming in their vault. New Masterpiece series could be released in a binge watch format. Same with imports like The Great British Baking Show. Even the News Hour could be streamed.I watch all mah PBSes online. They were onboard before HBO and Netflix were............if NOVA wasn't still booming through my house I don't know what I'd do, that shit is the fabric of my childhood, lol. We can't get cable -or- an over the air signal where I'm at. My silo is one of the repeaters for the whole county's wifi. Costs us a shitload for non-LOS service (granted, I need a t1 feeding me NOAA and EPA access to work), but it;s worth it, and it makes life better for the families out here who wouldn't have access otherwise. Some of you yall need to keep in mind that you can't get the internet -or- a digital signal everywhere.
Moreover, isn't the vast majority of non-imported PBS programming centrally produced anyway? I know that in the past that local stations had a fair amount of unique programming (Bob Ross' show started at the Municie, Indiana station, for example), but it seems like most of it is just standardized programming. I think my local station has maybe one or two NH-focused shows a week.
It sucks that people are going to lose their jobs, but it really seems like a cut of Federal funds will merely hasten what was bound to happen anyway. They really should've been transitioning to online-only about five years ago.
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