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The world has changed a lot since 1969. Many homes don't even have network television anymore.

vachi 10y ago
PBS news hour has 390k subs on youtube and does 50k views on their nightly 50min. Compared to other news networks this is not too shabby. So yeah don't worry they have many other ways of getting to viewers.
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CharlesW 10y ago
> The world has changed a lot since 1969. Many homes don't even have network television anymore. All homes with TVs that receive broadcast, cable, or satellite TV have network television. I think you probably meant broadcast/OTA television, in which case a survey from 2016 shows that 17% of U.S. TV households rely on "broadcast-only" television reception, and that was an increase from the previous year. However, that number is disproportionately higher in poor, Black, and Hispanic households. For example, it jumps to 26% for households earning less than $30K/year.
- Larrikin 10y ago
  I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people getting OTA broadcasting will begin increasing. I don't know anyone my age that doesn't watch mostly streamed content, but we all have digital antennas for local broadcast and the important live events.
  - Neliquat 10y ago
    I literally know no one who watches ota. I tried for a while but was quickly confronted with ota quality programming (or lack thereof). The digital antenna is in a box somewhere.
  - upofadown 10y ago
    It is increasing, a lot. There was a recent study that had OTA using households increase from 9% in 2013 to 15% in 2016. Or as one headline put it "almost double". Added: Here are some numbers not from memory: * http://www.ooyala.com/videomind/blog/ota-usage-growing-more-us-households-turn-away http://www.ooyala.com/videomind/blog/ota-usage-growing-more-... Added2: OK I found my numbers, which were slightly off. Fixed... * http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170127/tv-antenna-rises-again http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170127/tv-antenna-ri...
FullMtlAlcoholc 10y ago
You're right. PBS Digital Studios has a fantastic Youtube presence. One of my favorite YT channels is PBS Spacetime, which gives a somewhat mathmatically rigorous treatment on cosmology/astrophysics. It's so much better than anything on the Science or Discovery channel. I learned about the coolest phenomenon ever: a KugelBlitz (a hypothetical type of black hole formed from light), overtaking quasars as my fave astronomical curiosity. They also have PBS Infinite which is a maths series. I learned what a random walk is today. I urge any and every one to check out their various Youtube channels. It truly is a travesty that we have extra money to spend on the F-35 and other overpriced, unnecessary military expenditures, but the pittance we give to PBS is being cut.
digikata 10y ago
PBS has a streaming channel on my Roku...
awqrre 10y ago
I get about 10 PBS channels using a $30 antenna...

vachi 10y ago

PBS news hour has 390k subs on youtube and does 50k views on their nightly 50min. Compared to other news networks this is not too shabby. So yeah don't worry they have many other ways of getting to viewers.

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CharlesW 10y ago

> The world has changed a lot since 1969. Many homes don't even have network television anymore. All homes with TVs that receive broadcast, cable, or satellite TV have network television. I think you probably meant broadcast/OTA television, in which case a survey from 2016 shows that 17% of U.S. TV households rely on "broadcast-only" television reception, and that was an increase from the previous year. However, that number is disproportionately higher in poor, Black, and Hispanic households. For example, it jumps to 26% for households earning less than $30K/year.

Larrikin 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people getting OTA broadcasting will begin increasing. I don't know anyone my age that doesn't watch mostly streamed content, but we all have digital antennas for local broadcast and the important live events.
- Neliquat 10y ago
  I literally know no one who watches ota. I tried for a while but was quickly confronted with ota quality programming (or lack thereof). The digital antenna is in a box somewhere.
- upofadown 10y ago
  It is increasing, a lot. There was a recent study that had OTA using households increase from 9% in 2013 to 15% in 2016. Or as one headline put it "almost double". Added: Here are some numbers not from memory: * http://www.ooyala.com/videomind/blog/ota-usage-growing-more-us-households-turn-away http://www.ooyala.com/videomind/blog/ota-usage-growing-more-... Added2: OK I found my numbers, which were slightly off. Fixed... * http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170127/tv-antenna-rises-again http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170127/tv-antenna-ri...

FullMtlAlcoholc 10y ago

You're right. PBS Digital Studios has a fantastic Youtube presence. One of my favorite YT channels is PBS Spacetime, which gives a somewhat mathmatically rigorous treatment on cosmology/astrophysics. It's so much better than anything on the Science or Discovery channel. I learned about the coolest phenomenon ever: a KugelBlitz (a hypothetical type of black hole formed from light), overtaking quasars as my fave astronomical curiosity. They also have PBS Infinite which is a maths series. I learned what a random walk is today. I urge any and every one to check out their various Youtube channels. It truly is a travesty that we have extra money to spend on the F-35 and other overpriced, unnecessary military expenditures, but the pittance we give to PBS is being cut.

digikata 10y ago

PBS has a streaming channel on my Roku...

awqrre 10y ago

I get about 10 PBS channels using a $30 antenna...