roundtable: Re: Rightwing Attack on Publi...

roundtable: Re: Rightwing Attack on Publi...

Re: Rightwing Attack on Publi...

David (david@apts.org)
Fri, 10 Feb 95 09:18:38 -0400 

Subject: Re: Rightwing Attack on Publi...
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: David <david@apts.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 09:18:38 -0400
Message-Id: <950210.091838.395@apts.org>


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>Subject: Re: Rightwing Attack on Publi...
>The "far left," as Mike Perry calls it, is really just the left out, 
>precisely those who can't be heard anywhere else & can't be heard on 
>PBS.   A sampling of those excluded by PBS national programming (some 
>of which have been very popular at local stations, ...


Once again:  PBS is a service for stations.  It is one of a number of 
distributors.  The average station broadcasts for over 6,800 hours per 
year and airs more than 9,400 programs.  PBS distributes 1600 original 
hours of programs to stations.  There are "national" distribution 
schedules for the delivery of programs on the many transponders now in 
use but no network program schedule.  PBS cannot program any station, 
cannot broadcast any program.

Each station (203) has a program director that chooses what to air in 
their market(s)-352 of them.  They choose from commercial as well their 
non-commercial sources of programs, and there are many.  If one is 
seeking to get programs on public broadcasting's independent community 
of locally controlled and operated stations, they have a variety of 
introduction points including the American Program Service, the 4 
regional networks, the state uplinks and the stations themselves.  This 
is a lesson that the ITVS found out a while ago and have made their 
marketing strategy accordingly.

Glad to be of help.

David Brugger, America's Public Television Stations, Washington, DC
david@apts.org

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