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BBTV enlisted by PBS for YouTube content management

BroadbandTV (BBTV) has partnered with US public broadcaster PBS to manage fan-uploaded content on YouTube for shows like Nova, Frontline, and Nature, as well as PBS Kids series. BBTV’s professional services team uses a proprietary service that detects, tracks and measures fan activity associated with premium content and puts the rights owners back in control […]

PBS launches 24/7 kids net

US pubcaster PBS is launching a US-wide PBS Kids channel for the first time. The free service will feature 24/7 kids content including Bob the Builder, Caillou, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Dinosaur Train, Ready Jet Go!, Sesame Street, Thomas & Friends and Wild Kratts. Currently, PBS kids programming is shown throughout the US in a daytime block […]

Ofcom: TV viewing time down as ‘generation gap’ widens

TV viewers in the UK now watch 26 minutes less per day than they did in 2010 and there is a “widening generational gap” in viewing habits, according to Ofcom. The UK broadcast regulator’s ‘Public Service Broadcasting Annual Report 2016’ claims that people under 25 are watching around 25% less broadcast TV than in 2010, while […]

PBS preps new kids services

PBS is launching a range of new kids offerings including a round-the-clock kids channel and a streamed version of the linear service. The publicly funded US broadcaster said the 24/7 kids service will be available to its local affiliates later this year. As well as a linear digital channel there will be a live stream […]

Maltese and Turkish pubcasters in production pact

The public broadcasters of Malta and Turkey have signed a cooperation agreement covering the broadcast of English-language programming and cooperation in the production and broadcasting of cultural programmes. Malta’s PBS and Turkey’s TRT have signed a deal that will provide for radio and TV programmes in English to be mutually transmitted. The two organisations will […]

PBS America moves to Documentaries on BSkyB

PBS America is to move to a new channel slot on the BSkyB platform in the UK. From next Wednesday, PBS America will move from the Entertainment to the Documentaries section of Sky’s EPG and its new home of channel slot 534. The move has been made possible thanks to a deal between PBS America […]

PBS goes live on Roku boxes

The US broadcast networks PBS and PBS Kids have launched channel apps on Roku web-streaming TV boxes in the US. The PBS channel features videos from popular PBS programs such as NOVA, Masterpiece, Frontline and Antiques Roadshow, while the PBS Kids channel includes full-length episodes of shows like Curious George, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and The Cat in the Hat […]

PBS seals UK cable deal with Virgin

PBS’s UK service will be carried on cable after the US public broadcast service inked a carriage deal with Virgin Media. PBS will launch on Virgin on November 1 and the deal also allows the MSO to make PBS content available on its on-demand services and on mobile and connected devices. PBS announced it would […]

PBS chooses Channel 4 for UK ad sales

US public service broadcaster PBS has selected Channel 4 to manage ad sales for its soon-to-launch UK channel. The channel will debut on BSkyB’s DTH platform on November 1, with Channel 4 acting as the sales house. Jonathan Allan, Channel 4’s sales director said: “PBS and Channel 4 have a natural synergy – in becoming […]

PBS to launch UK channel in November

PBS, the US Public Broadcast Service, is to launch a channel in the UK on November 1 on the BSkyB pay TV platform. PBS has secured a licence from media regulator Ofcom for the channel, which will be managed by Richard Kingsbury, previously the head of thematic channel provider UKTV’s Good Food and Yesterday channels. […]