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Unusual programming on PBS/educational stations
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I'd take it that this game will probably be carried on WLJT PBS 11 on Lexington/Jackson, TN, which is operated by UT Martin and carries their basketball and football games t times.
nothing on the guide for WLJT
WCTE is probably just taking the ESPN+ feed like they did a month ago the last time they carried the games
In 2019 and 2020, Mississippi Public Broadcasting (WMPN-TV, Jackson; et. al.) had occasionally aired a movie on the weekend (that is, Fridays at midnight or Sunday nights at 10).
The '80s and '90s movies aired by MPB include:
The '80s and '90s movies aired by MPB include:
- Absence of Malice
- ...And Justice for All
- For Keeps
- High School High
- Moscow on the Hudson
- Muppets Take Manhattan
- Nothing in Common
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Roxanne
- Seems Like Old Times
- Short Circuit
- Silverado
Thanks for the info. I just thought this would be something WLJT would pick up as well.
PBS Guam airs sports events from University of Guam.
It's interesting to note that those movies that aired are owned by Sony Pictures.
That's not a coincidence. Sony is a part-owner of one of the three joint master control systems that allow public TV stations to hub their master controls remotely, and part of the deal if you sign up for that system is that you get access to those movies as part of the programming library you can draw from.
Public Media Group buys WGBH share in Public Media Management venture - Current
WGBH's decision to sell its interest in PMM is part of a pattern in which the Boston-based public media giant has incubated business ventures and spun them off.
current.org
interrupted by more begging?
KSPS Spokane WA (which actually gets most of its viewership from Canadian cable subscribers) has been airing older films for quite a while. Check out this lineup, everything from art films to "Beach Blanket Bingo"
KSPS PBS Saturday Night Cinema
KSPS PBS Saturday Night Cinema
No, I don't think there was any begging. I just thought it was unusual for a PBS station--or a statewide network of PBS stations (such as Mississippi Public Broadcasting)--to have a movie.
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All of them? I didn't know that.
That's actually a pretty good movie lineup.
Too bad they don't stream unless you have YouTube TV and are in the Spokane market.
Here is another one there used to be a show called PBS Late Night which is really owned by WTVS Detroit. This was one of the talk shows that existed prior to Charlie Rose and currently Amanpour and Company taking the spot on Late Night TV for PBS affiliates.
There’s a great episode of that show on YouTube where Carl Wilson from the Beach Boys gets interviewed.
Anyone remember Don't Look Now? Basically, it was You Can't Do That on Television for PBS (from the same creators, Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby), with a few tweaks - it was made in Boston (WGBH) instead of Ottawa (CJOH), it had "Yellow Yuck" instead of green slime, walking the plank instead of a firing squad, a summer camp with bad food instead of a greasy spoon with bad food, and so on. Like the early locally aired episodes of YCDTOTV, it also aired rock videos and hosted phone-in contests (where kids had to answer questions from the week's news, hence the show's "educational" component).
It aired a trial run of about a half-dozen episodes in the fall of 1983 but ultimately wasn't picked up as a series despite very good ratings. The envelope-pushing content of a lot of the comedy likely had a lot to do with that - one skit has a kid dumping a bucket of water over a girl's head because he thought "she'd look better in a wet T-shirt," then, after examining her, decides she doesn't and walks away. I would imagine there were a ton of complaints from parents, despite the disclaimer at the beginning of each show warning that it wasn't intended for very young children. Judging by TV listings I've seen, the PBS member station in Grand Rapids, MI didn't air it, although Detroit, East Lansing, Toledo, Central Michigan and Bowling Green did.
I assume Price and Darby, who often poked fun at PBS with YCDTOTV skits, took a chance with PBS at a time when they weren't sure Nickelodeon would make it, as YCDTOTV was one of the few Nickelodeon shows with any kind of ratings at that time. But PBS didn't pick up the show, Nick survived, and YCDTOTV continued until 1990.
It aired a trial run of about a half-dozen episodes in the fall of 1983 but ultimately wasn't picked up as a series despite very good ratings. The envelope-pushing content of a lot of the comedy likely had a lot to do with that - one skit has a kid dumping a bucket of water over a girl's head because he thought "she'd look better in a wet T-shirt," then, after examining her, decides she doesn't and walks away. I would imagine there were a ton of complaints from parents, despite the disclaimer at the beginning of each show warning that it wasn't intended for very young children. Judging by TV listings I've seen, the PBS member station in Grand Rapids, MI didn't air it, although Detroit, East Lansing, Toledo, Central Michigan and Bowling Green did.
I assume Price and Darby, who often poked fun at PBS with YCDTOTV skits, took a chance with PBS at a time when they weren't sure Nickelodeon would make it, as YCDTOTV was one of the few Nickelodeon shows with any kind of ratings at that time. But PBS didn't pick up the show, Nick survived, and YCDTOTV continued until 1990.
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SCTV ran Friday nights on KTCA/Minneapolis
Back in the early 1980's the Huntington WV PBS station ran David Allen (Irish comedian) at 11 at night. IMHO better than the news on 3, 8, and 13.
WNYC-TV, once the secondary PBS member station for the New York Metropolitan area, carried brokered time programming if I remember correctly.
New Jersey Network had Dark Shadows and The Uncle Floyd Show running back-to-back in early evenings during the mid-'80s. And along with Doctor Who, they also carried The Prisoner and The Fugitive during this same period. There were some other Britcoms not named (or other than) Monty Python that the network also broadcast, but I can't remember the titles. NJN was also where I first saw the Woody Allen movie Bananas! (1971).
IIRC The Fugitive and Dark Shadows were big draws for NJN. The latter even more so, as it's NJN airings helped to spark renewed interest in the series. Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) even appeared in fundraising plugs for NJN pledge drives, giving away DS and NJN merch to new members.
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