I don't have rabbit ears, but I have an over-the-air antenna in my attic both for backup to Dish, and for accessing the sub channel broadcast channels. They're not on any cable or satellite system that I know of.
CPB to shut down
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Nor is PBS, unless I'm totally out of touch. They have some good programs. Some of my favorites are "This Old House" and its spinoffs. Some of the science programs are really good too.
I had to read that about three times to make sense of the fact that you get SEVENTEEN channels…
Daniel Tiger
Dinosaur Train
Arthur
Sid the Science Kid
Etc etc etc.
...so education and behavioral.
I haven't looked into the funding percentage that CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) represented for NPR, PBS and the various local affiliates, so I don't know what happens to all those organizations.
It's somewhat nostalgic to me, who grew up on Sesame Street and the Electric Company (Morgan Freeman anyone??).
That said, I watched some of PBS's convention and election coverage and it was beyond embarrassing how completely biased to the left they were. It was extremely clear that there wasn't a single person on any panel who had any intention of supporting Trump in any way. They did it to themselves and if I lose things I wish I didn't, I know where the blame lies.
It's somewhat nostalgic to me, who grew up on Sesame Street and the Electric Company (Morgan Freeman anyone??).
That said, I watched some of PBS's convention and election coverage and it was beyond embarrassing how completely biased to the left they were. It was extremely clear that there wasn't a single person on any panel who had any intention of supporting Trump in any way. They did it to themselves and if I lose things I wish I didn't, I know where the blame lies.
Exactly. This is a big nothing. Most people won’t even notice it’s gone.
I grew up watching a lot of pbs educational shows. I watched a good special on animals and different plant species the other night on pbs station.
I watched Wild America every Thursday night when I was a kid.
Which is why it should go away.
if both sides hated it was going away, it might could stay.
Marty Stouffer’s love of extended footage of mating scenes were reason enough to put PBS on notice even back then
“Yes, I'm Siskel, yes, I'm Ebert
And you're getting two thumbs up
You've had enough of two-hand touch
You want it rough, you're out of bounds
I want you smothered, want you covered
Like my Waffle House hash browns”
incredible lyrics.
There's no way you typed that with a straight face. By education you mean indoctrination right?
How on the absolute 17 is Dinosaur Train indoctrination? Sid the Science Kid? Arthur?
I am not vouching for literally every single show/program that has ever aired.
My comments have been specific to shows made for kids 8 and under that teach socially acceptable behavior and the basics of science and wonder.
Wow future generations will have so much content to choose from ....CPB was antiquated and certainly not necessary in today's world of streaming ....if the content is that good, it will be picked up by private sources ...as there will always be a place for good content ....
Very true. The low cost and widespread availability of public programming currebtly can't be replicated with streaming, it yes some content I am referencing will surely live on.
I do, but I’m in a major metro area (DFW). With just basic rabbit ears, I get like 50 channels.
Are you wanting one that hides behind the TV or one that goes in the attic?
My parents have had decent success. It’s way better if you can install it in your attic. At my first house I just replaced an old satellite dish with an outdoor antenna. Wires were already run to most rooms in my house.
The attic made a huge difference when I put the antenna there vs inside. Moving it outside helped some more too but wasn't as dramatic a change as moving it to the attic was. I use the old satellite mount and wiring for one of the outside antenna and a piece of gray PVC conduit for a mast and coax I ran for the other one
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Yeah I watch a lot of morning shows at my grand parents and then now as an adult I watch a variety of things there. We watch a lot of educational type stuff like pbs National Geographic Smithsonian discovery. I'm hoping pbs stays a live because I would like for my kids to keep some of those educational cartoons rather just stuff Disney nick or one of the others broadcast. I want them to learn and not just brain rot all the time if they are watching tv. Learn about plants animals geography etc.
I thought about it more and I think I do agree with the folks saying NPR and PBS have a "liberal" slant to them. A lot of the shows teach human empathy and a core christian value of "do unto others as you would have done unto you."
With the rise of the tea party takeover and the televangelicals guiding the "conservative" side in promoting corporate profits and deprioritizing caring for your neighbors - they don't at all mesh with the ideals those shows try to teach.
With the rise of the tea party takeover and the televangelicals guiding the "conservative" side in promoting corporate profits and deprioritizing caring for your neighbors - they don't at all mesh with the ideals those shows try to teach.
I watched that at there were some other shows too like Mathnet. It was a like a police show that used math in the plot.
I'm not sure if this is propaganda or not, but I have read that CPB distributes money to states who then give it to local channels that use those fundds to pay PBS and/or NPR and that those funds funneled through the states don't show up in that 1%. Never been interested enough to try to confirm that.
Even if that was the case they can’t be relying on a substantial percentage of government funds. I don’t listen to NPR radio but I listen to a few of their podcasts. They advertise as much or more than others. Common sense says they are self sustaining if their model is the same as private news outlets.
I believe PBS is more reliant on public funds and that makes sense too. TV is expensive, so less margin. Probably means we’ll see more ads on PBS programming, which for me is Daniel Tiger aka cartoon Mr Rogers and This Old House
Hides behind TV. Not wanting to put anything on roof. When I moved into my current house the first thing I did was rip off a satellite dish because it was leaking so I’d rather not put anything up there. Attic would be alright I guess, I don’t mind drilling holes and running wires. I just don’t want more holes in the roof.
If you have the old cables that ran to the satellite you can use those to rig up a good antenna inside your attic.