[opendtv] Re: [lptv] FYI NEWS There Goes Analog
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:21:21 -0700
Yes, New York is a smorgasbord, even with public tv. I also note that there
is talk of turning 4 of the ny pubcasters into a single organization: better
to preserve diversity, no?
A statistic of what percentage of the programming of each comes from PBS,
and what percentage of the sign to sign off programming is repeated on other
stations within a week or so might be of interest.
But, you are talking about niche audiences: San Diego has only one
pubcaster, and they show Britcoms (I suspect that only brits watch "Are you
being served?" only on Saturday evenings. Too heavy, in my mind.
IIRC, a few years ago in Los Angeles, there was a study of pubcaster
programming, and the bulk of it was national (KCET's Life and Times, now a
half-hour, a notable exception), and only a small percentage was
non-duplicated over the course of a week. Aside from tivo-challenged
slotting issues, that's not a whole lot of diversity ...
I also tend to draw a distinction -- as do many pubcasters -- between
instructional programming and the bulk of public broadcasting.
Instructional programming seems to be on the way to being a new public
public broadcasting/cable profit center. I see and hear very little
instructional programming on public tv in markets with less than 2 public tv
stations.
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:08 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: [lptv] FYI NEWS There Goes Analog
> You speak as though each station carries the same programming. I can't
> speak for the San Francisco market, but, in New York, WLIW specializes
> in Britcoms, WNET specializes in cultural programming, WNJN carries New
> Jersey-specific programming, WNYE carries educational and ethnic
> programming, and, back when WNYC was a public station, it carried
> training programming for nurses, police, and firefighters. I'm not sure
> what WEDW carries; it's not on my cable system and is too far for me to
> get with an indoor antenna.
>
> Only on rare occasions do most of those stations carry the same
> programming -- even with time delay considered.
>
> TTFN,
> Mark
>
>
> John Willkie wrote:
>
> >To little avail? Or, they found out how motivated viewers are to
preserve
> >reception of the third PBS station in their market?
> >
> >
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> >
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