[TowerTalk] PBS documentary

[Tom Anderson]

If there is a program your local station hasn't or won't show, WGBH Boston which produces the "Frontline" series has nearly all, but not all, for sale on their website, just Google WGBH Boston and the website will come up.  As an FYI our local PBS station in the D-FW area (KERA-TV)is currently having a pledge drive for funding from the local community and according to a screen scroll, they receive about 50 percent of their funding from local members and sources.

As an addendum, KERA was started in the very early 1960s by the Dallas Independent School District to supplement in class DISD instruction. I originally took the "theory" part of driver training on KERA at night (Tuesday and Thursdays at 7 p.m. for 30 minutes)in the fall of 1962.  It moved to its presentlocation when WFAA-TV Channel 8 opened its new location.  KERA later became a PBS station and Jim Leherer now of PBS fame (McNeil-Leherer Report) was a city editor on the old Dallas Times Herald newspaper and started the "Newsroom" program on KERA about 1970.  It was the only news program that provided in-depth analysis of local news.  They beat the heck out of local newspapers and TV stations when the Dallas desegregation case was decided.  Of course that case came long after I was out of high school (1965) and had even graduated from college (1969) by then.

hi hi.
73 de 

Tom, WW5L

--- On Sun, 3/25/12, Michael Poteet <mcpoteet at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Poteet <mcpoteet at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] PBS documentary
> To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at frontier.com>, "Towertalk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 1:28 PM
> I believe you will find that PBS
> receives less than 10% of its funding from the
> government.  Slightly over 50% is member funding
> (donations), remainder is from from corporate and
> institutional sponsors who get short advertising
> spots.  
> 
> PBS is probably the best open source of news in the USA; I
> don't always agree with them (their unquestioning reporting
> of manmade global warming for example) but I find I can just
> turn down the volume in those cases rather than suffer a
> seizure.
> 
> Mike   W5FTD
> 
> 
> 
> >> Anyway I generally don't see PBS groveling for
> >> money.  Usually it is its member stations
> doing that.
> >>
> > Why should they?  It is funded by the
> government.  Just another
> > liberal media outlet.  73 Tom W7WHY
> >
> >
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