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PBS Is Down With Downloads
By John Eggerton

Casey McDonald's Guidance Counsellor, Ian J. Ball...

Um, yay?...

PBS was brought to you today by the letters IPT and V.

At the Television Critics Association network presentations in
Pasadena Wednesday, PBS announced that episodes of Nova, Now, and
Scientific American Frontiers, and Antiques Roadshow (note to web-search,
it's "Antiques,' not "Antique," in the title), as well as some kids
shows, are now available for download on web-search video, the first PBS
programming to get video "searched the web for."

Milhouse Van Houten...

Note to B&C: "Charlie Rose" has been searched the web for months.

patty1...

But that show is distributed by WNET, right? The article is about
the first shows from *PBS* to hit web-search.

Milhouse Van Houten...

Which is a PBS station itself. I guess that could be, but I consider all

patty1...

It is a PBS affiliate, yes, but what's that got to do with their
program creation and distribution?

regular shows on PBS to be PBS programming. Don't most PBS shows have

patty1...

You can consider them that way, but that doesn't make them PBS
shows. Same thing with NPR; many shows that people would identify
as "NPR programs" don't come from NPR at all. E.g., "A Prairie
Home Companion" and "Marketplace" come from American Public Media.

affiliation with one major PBS affiliate or other, particularly WGBH?

patty1...

I don't know what you mean by "shows have affiliation." Many PBS
shows are *created* by WGBH, which uses PBS as its distributor.
But evidently WNET does not use PBS to distribute its shows, or
at least not all of them (e.g. "Charlie Rose").

"As we've seen with our podcasts, PBS viewers appreciate the
opportunity to consume PBS and local PBS stations' content when and

massello...

And free of the program choices, chaotic scheduling, constant
pre-emptions, and technical incompetence of local PBS affiliates.
Whatever virtues the PBS organizational structure may have had when it
was set up more than thirty years ago, it is now hopelessly obsolete.
But like most government programs, it will lumber along for years in
greater and greater irrelevance.

where they like," said PBS President Paula Kerger, and today's
announcement will be a boon to the quickly-increasing number of these
kinds of media consumers."

Kerger also told critics that PBS had struck a deal with nonprofit
available there for download purchase.

Kerger has made expanding PBS's multiplatform distribution, and
monetizing that, one of her key goals.