I've noticed that more and more PBS stations throughout the US no longer have children's programming in the afternoon. I wonder if it's because of the 24/7 PBS Kids channel, and the streaming service. I was also told that today's kids do not watch nearly as much TV as we did when we were kids.
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PBS stations discontinuing afternoon children's programming
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They're glued to the TV, but not so much real time TV. The young kids in our family are glued to their parents' phones, watching their favorite short-form videos. Real time TV moves to slow for them.
Do you have examples?
I pulled up the listings for some major market PBS stations. WNET/Newark-New York airs children's programs until 4pm. WGBH/Boston until 5pm. KERA-TV/Dallas until 5:30. WTTW/Chicago until 4pm.
I pulled up the listings for some major market PBS stations. WNET/Newark-New York airs children's programs until 4pm. WGBH/Boston until 5pm. KERA-TV/Dallas until 5:30. WTTW/Chicago until 4pm.
New Hampshire Public Television still carries children's programming until 5 p.m. Vermont's network tells the kids to get lost at 2:30, right around the time they ought to be heading home from school. Go figure.
Likely you can find the PBS Kids Programming on PBS App and PBS Kids on the TV. I don't know how true this statement about
But PBS and their affiliates have their content via PBS Kids app and PBS App on the TV's for on demand viewing.
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some stations have a 24/7 kids channel on a subchannel
they're glued to phones and tablets, not TVs
They're watching video content, so that's TV to them. They like to be able to control what they watch, and watch it wherever they are. If the home TV has alexa or voice command, then they can control the TV. The 2 year old can't read yet. but he knows what he wants to watch. But this idea of watching TV at a set time is very 20th century.
Except for live sports, for the most part, I'd assume. Or has time-shifting even come to dominate that as well? How many people will be watching this weekend's NFL conference championship games the next day or later compared to those who will watch live at the scheduled times?
I was talking about pre-teen kids. They can't sit still for real time sports.
OK, thought you were talking about all viewers, not just children.
Here's the story according to Current. Beginning February 6th, PBS will only feed eight hours of PBS Kids programming on the main channel from 6am-2pm, but stations have to air seven hours of it.
current.org
PBS, stations revamp afternoon schedules to draw adults - Current
Responding to shifts in daytime viewership, PBS will reduce the footprint of children’s shows on its national schedule in February.
current.org
For now. Come back on February 6th and you'll see the schedules will be vastly different by then.
I know that they always stop airing the kids programming on pbs in iowa at 5:30pm. But like my nieces and nephews don't even know what a tv channel is. They put their show on and watch what they want sometimes it's the same episode over and over again but it's all streaming that they watch.
TPT (KTCA Twin Cities PBS/Minneapolis) dropped 4 hours of it on Jan 2nd.
Schedule Change Coming to TPT 2 in January 2023 - Twin Cities PBS
To better serve viewers, TPT will be changing the schedule on TPT 2 on January 2, 2023, to increase general audience programming on the channel during the afternoon.
Minneapolis does not have Create as a subchannel but we do have a 2nd PBS (KTCI TPT Life) that carries some Create stuff. Now with them moving items to the main PBS that allowed them to add more "create" type shows on KTCI
Wisconsin PBS also runs from 5am-1pm
North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa run PBS Kids all day (until at least 5pm or 6pm)
WKNO PBS 10 in Memphis and WLJT 11 Jackson/Lexington, TN have the PBS Kids subchannel but they still have kid's programs in the afternoon for now. I guess we'll have to see how it changes on Feb. 6th.
24/7!
Looking at the schedule for PBS in on channel 11 in Des Moines Iowa kids programming still runs till 5:30pm after February 6th.
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