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It appears the call is for more local journalism/programming online. PBS has great national and children's programs and does have broadcast local journalism/topics of interest. However, getting access to that online is more difficult.

Do we need this? Meh.. IDK.

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I get that more from my local NPR affiliate than I do PBS.

Which I think is perhaps appropriate, if we've got to make a choice between the two. Textual media are a somewhat smaller jump from radio than they are from TV, and also, at least in my area, public radio is already doing a lot more local journalism. The public television station has a fair bit of locally produced programming, but most of it isn't really journalistic.

Kqed is both the npr radio and TV station for a good chunk of the sf bay area. I know in other markets this is not the same arrangement.

In Los Angeles there are two local NPR stations within 25 miles of eachother: KCRW and KPCC.

Huh—I judge PBS much more valuable to me, these days. Kids are a big factor in that, but also NPR's news is largely pretty poor—it's all horse-race shit and campaign Monday-morning quarterbacking around elections, the campaigns for which are now so long that they seem to be happening more often than not, and they continue to be blind to all kinds of issues and events generally—when it's not just re-broadcasting the BBC, and two of my favorite programs are gone now with nothing I consider anywhere near as good to replace them (Car Talk, and old-school A Prairie Home Companion, i.e. atheist Sunday church service). Some bright spots remain (On the Media), sure, but largely not stuff I care about or else programs that I think are simply bad.

They also spend a ton of time on ads (if you include promoting their own programs, especially).

I don't love a lot of PBS' current programming, but their historical material is a goldmine.

Well local PBS & NPR stations ... often do that.

I'm not sure the article really makes it clear what the situation in the first place is, or if they know.

Not entirely https://www.pbs.org/passport/videos/

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