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Movies on PBS stations

KCET/28, which is branded as "PBS SoCal Plus", has for many years broadcast "Must See Movies" on Saturday nights, with a replay post-midnight and another on Sunday afternoons.

This week, it's "Fiddler on the Roof". My recollection is that they started doing so in 2011 after disaffiliating with PBS, but after they merged with KOCE/50 (which had become the Los Angeles market's PBS primary station) they reaffiliated with PBS in 2019, keeping the Saturday night movie on the schedule.
 
In the 2000's, KCPT, Ch. 19 in Kansas City, MO had the "Deja Vu Drive-In Movie" on Saturday nights at 8PM.

The show was originally, for the first couple of years, hosted by Randy Mason, Michael Murphy & Don Mayberger, the 3 of which also hosted the KCPT travel show "Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations".
 
KCTS-9 ("Cascade PBS") Seattle occasionally ran movies (I saw Schindler's List on it once.) It seems like it's becoming a thing now. Everybody loves a good movie on Saturday night. It's not a hard thing to tap into.
 
Never have seen a movie on WGVU PBS on the TV guide on Charter Spectrum. I didn't know PBS stations aired movies I thought it was docs or dramas along with Roadshow program.
 
Megatron said:
Never have seen a movie on WGVU PBS on the TV guide on Charter Spectrum. I didn't know PBS stations aired movies I thought it was docs or dramas along with Roadshow program.
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It's an individual station decision.
 
K.M. Richards said:
It's an individual station decision.
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PBS doesn't have a "network" program lineup for Saturday nights, leaving each member station free to program the night as it sees fit. Technically, any station can run any program on any evening at any time after a show's "first airing" date/time, but I think most stations air the marquee PBS programs (e.g., Frontline, Nova, American Experience, Masterpiece Theatre, etc.) at their "first airing" feed.
 
KUAC (Fairbanks) had "Reel Magic" Saturday nights in the '90s, while there was WYES' (New Orleans) "Starlight Theatre", which lasted also until the '90s; KAET (Phoenix, now Arizona PBS) ran movies as well, but I was too young to remember.
 
K.M. Richards said:
KCET/28, which is branded as "PBS SoCal Plus", has for many years broadcast "Must See Movies" on Saturday nights, with a replay post-midnight and another on Sunday afternoons.

This week, it's "Fiddler on the Roof". My recollection is that they started doing so in 2011 after disaffiliating with PBS, but after they merged with KOCE/50 (which had become the Los Angeles market's PBS primary station) they reaffiliated with PBS in 2019, keeping the Saturday night movie on the schedule.
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They did in the early 2000s. I have KCET promos along with the KCET movie open and The MGM lion followed by the opening to North by Northwest as part of The Closing Logo Group Megamix Volume 6.
 
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