Public TV February '95 Ku Sked
Maryanne Schuessler
Public Television on Telstar 401 - Ku Transponders
All Times Eastern
Telstar 401 - Ku 6 (11,855 MHz. Horizontal Polarity)
SUNDAYS
1130 Financial Freedom (from WXEL)
1300 International Dispatches (from SECA)
1400 World of Collector Cars (from PMN)
1430 Quilt In A Day (from PMN)
1500 Graham Kerr's Kitchen (from PMN)
1530 Spectrum Hawai'i (from PMN)
1700 Naturescene (from SC ETV)
1730 Bloomberg Business Information News (from Maryland PTV)
1800 Cucina Amore (from PMN) (Starts 1/08)
1830 Creative Living With Sheryl Borden (from PMN)
1900 Inspiration of Painting (from PMN)
2030 Make Peace With Nature (from WNVT)
2100 National Arts (from WNVT)
MONDAY - FRIDAYS
T401-Ku 6 is operated as two analog half transponders
from 0730-1830 ET, Mon-Fri.
Full-bandwidth analog operation resumes each evening at 1830 ET.
1830 The Nightly Business Report (from WPBT) (live)
1900 The Nightly Business Report (from WPBT)
1930 Eastenders (Monday & Tuesday only)
2100 Market to Market (from Iowa Public TV) (Friday only)
2130 Serious Money (from KCTS) (Friday only)
2200 Inside Money (Access feed) (Thursdays only)
2200 This Is America with Dennis Wholey (from WHMM) (Friday only)
SATURDAYS
1015 Flicks/ Quick Pick (from APS)
1130 Adventures of Dudley The Dragon (from APS)
1200 Nathalie Dupree Cooks (from APS)
1230 Jenkins' Art Workshop (from APS)
1300 Various Regional Feeds
1400 Pittard's Painting Show (from CPM)
1430 Watercolor Workshop (from CPM)
1500 Various Regional Feeds
1530 Sewing With Nancy (from CPM)
1600 We Do The Work (from CPM)
1630 American Art Forum (from CPM)
1700 Various Regional Feeds
1730 T'ai Chih Chi - Joy Through Movement (from PMN)
1830 Bloomberg Business Information News
1900 American Vacations (from PMN)
1930 American Vacations (from PMN)
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Telstar 401 - Ku 8 (11,915 MHz. Horizontal Polarity)
SUNDAYS
1030 The MacNeil/Lehrer Weekend Newsfeed (from WNET)
1100 Texas Parks & Wildlife ( from SECA)
1130 Quilting for the 90's (from SECA)
1200 The Art of Sewing (from SECA)
1230 Gourmet Cooking (from SECA)
1300 The New Garden (from SECA)
1330 World:Comm (from SECA)
1400 Quilting From The Heartland (from SECA)
1430 Inn Country USA (from SECA)
1530 Sew Creative (from SECA)
1600 Strip Quilting With Kaye Wood (from SECA)
1630 Sewing Connection (from SECA)
1700 Crafting for the 90's (from SECA)
1730 Master Chefs of Florida Culinary Instit.(SECA) (starts 2/12)
1800 Firing Line (from SECA)
1830 Mexican Kitchen (from SECA)
MONDAYS-FRIDAYS
0500 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
0530 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
0600 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
0630 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
0700 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
0730 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
0800 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
0830 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
0900 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
0930 Bloomberg Business Report (30:00) (from Maryland Public TV)
1030 Today's Japan (from WGBH/NHK)
1100 Various Regional Feeds 'til 1500 ET
1500 Deutsche Welle News (from Oregon Public TV)
1530 Various Regional Feeds 'til 1800 ET
1730 Bloomberg Business Information News (from Maryland Public TV)
1800 The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour (live from WNET)
1900 Reserved for live PBS feeds.
2300 The Charlie Rose Show (from WNET)
SATURDAYS
1030 Embroidery Studio (from SECA)
1100 Various Regional Feeds
1500 Deutsche Welle World News Journal (from Oregon Public TV)
1530 The Everyday Gourmet (from SECA)
1600 Inside the Law (from SECA)
1630 Small Business Today (from SECA)
1700 The Lawrence Welk Show (from SECA)
1800 The Guilty (from SECA)
1900 International Jam (from SECA)
2000 Austin City Limits (from SECA)
2100 The Lawrence Welk Show (from SECA)
2200 Austin City Limits (from SECA)
2300 Thinking Allowed (from SECA)
2330 Stained Glass With Vickie Payne (from SECA)
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Telstar 401 - Ku transponder 7 Lower (11,895 MHz. Vertical Polarity)
SUNDAYS
1500 Deutsche Welle News (from CPM)
MONDAYS-through-FRIDAYS
0600 The Morning Business Report (15:00) (from WPBT)
0630 The Morning Business Report (15:00) (from WPBT)
0700 The Morning Business Report (15:00) (from WPBT)
0730 The Morning Business Report (15:00) (from WPBT)
0800 Body Electric (from WFSU)
0830 Homestretch (from SECA)
0900 The Morning Business Report (15:00) (from WPBT)
(Various regional feeds throughout the day
2000 Newsnight Minnesota (from KTCA)
SATURDAYS
1500 Campus Challenge (from WNVT)
1530 The Cold War Remembered (from WNVT)
1630 This Week in Canada (from WNYE)
1730 The Editors (from WCFE)
1800 The World In Review (from WCFE)
1830 Mediawatch (from WCFE)
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These schedules are subject to change without notice.
Questions about public television satellite schedules on Telstar 401:
703/739-5454 or e-mail to Maryanne Schuessler in PBS Broadcast
Operations: mschu...@PBS.org
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Broadcast Operations Department, Public Broadcasting Service
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Randell Jesup
remembering the TVRO viewers, by posting schedules, retaining a clear
C-band feed just for TVRO viewers (and responding to requests regarding
which shows are on an when!), etc.
With funding of PBS in jeopardy at the moment (you'd think that
there were more important issues for congress to deal with in their first
couple of weeks), I'd suggest that anyone who feels PBS funding should be
retained should write or call their representative. I did (Rep. Walker R-PA),
and I'm afraid to say it sounds like he's leaning towards cutting funding.
While loss of the funding won't kill PBS, it will certainly cause a number
of programs to be lost, and will cause some PBS stations to be lost,
especially in rural areas where many viewers don't have easy or cheap access
to alternatives. Who knows, we might all lose our PBS C-band feed.
Personally, I think PBS is one of the best-spent uses of our tax
money that exists. Most of the funding for PBS comes from viewers and
corporations, but the funding from the government is important. (And yes,
I send $40 every year to my local PBS station, WHYY, which is responsible for
shows like Hometime, and Furniture on the Mend, among others, even though
I watch PBS on satellite almost always.)
Think of all the wonderful shows and series on PBS: Nova; Nature;
Hometime; the Scientific American show; the Baseball series; the Civil War
series; Red/Green; Red Dwarf; Eastenders; the Mcglauphlin (sp) Group;
McNeil/Lehrer; This Old House; MotorWeek; Sesame Street; Barney (ugh, but
kids like him); Mr. Rogers; and many more than I can name. Certainly PBS
more than pays for itself in just what it does for parents and children alone.
Probably many of you grew up on Mr. Rogers or Sesame Street, or your kids
did (and kept out of your hair while watching it; perhaps worth it right
there! ;-)
If you don't contact your representative, I'd say you'll have no
right to complain if funding is cut and (for example) PBS/X goes away.
Act while you can. A phone call is easy, just grab the phone book and
find the local number in the government pages or call the congressional
switchboard in DC (area code 202) and ask for your representative.
--
Randell Jesup, Scala US R&D
Randel...@scala.com
Ex-Commodore-Amiga Engineer, class of '94
#include <std/disclaimer>
Thomas S. Simmons
tries to cut funds from a project (no matter what it is) someone
complains, how are they ever going to reduce the budget? Every one says
sure cut the project that I'm not interested in, but leave mine alone
cause it is really needed. If the billions that PBS gets from the kidie
programs is not enough then I guess they will just have to cut a few
performances. If this were food for the needy or somthing that really
affected a persons life or well being, I'd agree that it should be left
alone, but its just has intertainment programs (and mind you good ones at
that) and is a good place to make a cut. I contribute every year also,
but I believe that if the people realy think so much of PBS they should
dig a little deeper in their pockets and make a larger contribution so
that the programs can continue on there own.
DuPlessis, Doug
>
> Personally, I think PBS is one of the best-spent uses of our >tax
money that exists.
Personally, I would rather keep my money and spend it the way that I see
fit.
>Most of the funding for PBS comes from viewers and
>corporations, but the funding from the government is important. (And yes,
>I send $40 every year to my local PBS station, WHYY, which is responsible
for
>shows like Hometime, and Furniture on the Mend, among others, even though
>I watch PBS on satellite almost always.)
>
> Think of all the wonderful shows and series on PBS: Nova; Nature;
>Hometime; the Scientific American show; the Baseball series; the Civil War
>series; Red/Green; Red Dwarf; Eastenders; the Mcglauphlin (sp) Group;
>McNeil/Lehrer; This Old House; MotorWeek; Sesame Street; Barney (ugh, but
>kids like him); Mr. Rogers; and many more than I can name. Certainly PBS
>more than pays for itself in just what it does for parents and children
>
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I won't disagree that PBS offers some good programming. In fact with
programming that good, it should have no problem competing in the private
sector. Since people like Randell are willing to pay to support PBS right
now,it should be able to make it like the rest of the media world.
We need to remember that not all taxpayers choose to watch PBS or listen to
NPR programming. Should their tax dollars then be used to fund these
groups?
>
> If you don't contact your representative, I'd say you'll have no
>right to complain if funding is cut and (for example) PBS/X goes away.
>Act while you can. A phone call is easy, just grab the phone book and
>find the local number in the government pages or call the congressional
>switchboard in DC (area code 202) and ask for your representative.
>
I would also recommend contacting your representative if you are in favor
of cutting funding for PBS et. al. and allowing them to compete on the same
basis as other broadcasting concerns.
Since this is a political issue, I am bracing myself for incoming flames.
Just my opinion.
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Keith Jarett
>
> If you don't contact your representative, I'd say you'll have no
>right to complain if funding is cut and (for example) PBS/X goes away.
>Act while you can. A phone call is easy, just grab the phone book and
>find the local number in the government pages or call the congressional
>switchboard in DC (area code 202) and ask for your representative.
Couldn't they just sell subscriptions like the Discovery Channel
does? Surely there are enough viewers of PBS-X to recover the
cost of the transponder and uplink maintenance. In fact, PBS-X
could become a profit center for PBS, and in the process could
help PBS deliver more of what its audience wants and less of what
they don't want. If Disney can charge $7 per month and CNN can
charge $2, then PBS should be at least in the several dollar range.
I'd rather pay for it directly and be able to vote with my dollars
for the programming I like, than send the money through
Washington and lose half of it to overhead. And, as another
poster pointed out, how can we ask others to forego their
freebies from the government if we balk at giving up our own?
ke...@tcs.com
Keith Jarett
William Kucharski
je...@scala.scala.com ("Randell Jesup") said the following:
> Think of all the wonderful shows and series on PBS: Nova; Nature;
>Hometime; the Scientific American show; the Baseball series; the Civil War
>series; Red/Green; Red Dwarf; Eastenders; the Mcglauphlin (sp) Group;
>McNeil/Lehrer; This Old House; MotorWeek; Sesame Street; Barney (ugh, but
>kids like him); Mr. Rogers; and many more than I can name. Certainly PBS
>more than pays for itself in just what it does for parents and children alone.
>Probably many of you grew up on Mr. Rogers or Sesame Street, or your kids
>did (and kept out of your hair while watching it; perhaps worth it right
>there! ;-)
But each and every one of those shows would more than likely survive the loss of
CPB funding. Sesame Street and Barney are, simply put, cash cows that bring in
absolutely HUGE amounts of funding through their merchandising deals.
MotorWeek, though shown on some PBS stations, is actually produced by Maryland
Public Television but is popular enough that about two years ago it became a
normal syndicated program. (For example, it's shown on WGN). Hometime receives
NO CPB funding; rather they are primarily funded by our friends at the Stanley
Works, makers of Stanley tools. Red Green comes from Canada, and Eastenders is
from our friends at the BBC.
> If you don't contact your representative, I'd say you'll have no
>right to complain if funding is cut and (for example) PBS/X goes away.
>Act while you can. A phone call is easy, just grab the phone book and
>find the local number in the government pages or call the congressional
>switchboard in DC (area code 202) and ask for your representative.
Simply put, I don't want PBS/X to go away; however since that's all I watch of
PBS (I don't send either (yes we have two!) of my local PBS stations dollar one,
since, frankly, I don't watch them at all.) However, if PBS/X would run a
slate between shows simply stating something like this:
With the loss of funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, we
are requesting a $40 donation from our PBS/X viewers to keep PBS/X
available and in the clear. If we do not receive enough donations, we
may be forced to scramble and become a subscription-only service, or to
terminate PBS/X service altogether. Thank You.
I know I would certainly be writing my check before I saw the slate a second
time...
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>We need to remember that not all taxpayers choose to watch PBS or listen to
>NPR programming. Should their tax dollars then be used to fund these
>groups?
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institutions for which they are paying, however the citizenry contribute to
institutions which further the goals of the society.
It has been pointed out that PBS does indeed offer excellent programming
outside of the ordinary mainstream TV. Many people choose to contibute to this
excellent institution in both the USA and in Canada (!).
The fear is that if PBS became totally dependant on non-subsidized funding
could they continue to offer the same level of programming or would their
decisions change. PBS is (IMHO) a balance among many different groups in
society. They do a good job of meeting their mandate in a cost efficient
manner. You don't see them throwing their (and other peoples) money around.
PBS has marketed many of their successful programming to other broadcasters so
as to recoup their costs.
I think PBS has a long life ahead of them. Maybe, maybe PBS should consider a
PBS-2 along the lines of a Satellite delivered superstation. A+E seems to have
been successful with many components which have been proven on PBS.
just my thoughts
PS: maybe we should move this discussion to rec.video.satellite.misc where it
would be better placed... a la charter