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Hi  Our family has been supporting PBS (Local KCTS, Seattle) for at least 35 years.   We currently donate $20 a month to KCTS.   My sons were raised on the excellent quality TV your channel provided.Technology has moved on and streaming has become a very useful and popular method of watching programs.   No panic about missing episodes and catching up to watch a series can be done at the viewers' convenience.   Too bad this is not available to Canadian viewers and supporters of PBS. I have contacted my local station and asked them why this is the case.   I get very defensive and vague answers about "copyright and distribution issues".   I have asked them how many Canadian supporters/contributors they have.   It is a substantial % of their contributing viewers.   I am sure this is true right across Canada.  Yet none of us can stream PBS content.   My question is how can copyright issues apply to programs like Frontline, American Experience and Nova where surely you own the copyright.   Further, very little effort has been made by PBS to explain the situation to Canadian viewers.   There is NOTHING on PBS websites explaining the details nor providing information about what we can do.   For example, we can and do stream "Newshour" over Youtube.  Can we do this with all PBS programs?   Yes/no?   Why some but not others?  We are extremely disappointed in PBS.  Our 35 years loyalty is being tested.  Why should I donate to PBS when we cannot get some basic services and answers AND PBS does not seem to care one bit?   This makes no sense to me. I really would encourage PBS to look at the contributions Canadians make to your revenues and then ask yourself whether you cannot do better - at least by informing us of the problems in an informative, transparent way.   I simply cannot believe that in this day and age PBS cannot stream its own content where ever it wants. Please provide some answers and make some effort to reach out to your Canadian supporters. Thank you. Best regards, Bill Archibald Coquitlam, BC H: 778-355-5075 C: 778-773-0599

Has CPB discussed content you may be able to put on television for school students if buildings are closed due to coronavirus and students don't have computer and internet in the home?

The CPB broadcasts Amanpour and Company. The program is hosted by Christine Amanpour. If there is a case to be made for incitement to riot charges being brought against Ms. Amanpour, than CPD would be liable would it not. To whom can such a complaint be sent, please.

Is there any chance that an episode or two of "Vicious" (the entire series was never, I believe, shown here) might be shown here in Los Angeles PBS? I believe only one episode was shown. Would you show it again? It's HILARIOUS! Well written, well acted and well directed. I'd love to see it again. Cordially, Dael Klippenstein (Los Angeles, CA)

PS: Would you, could you have KOCE channel 50 cut out its clanging NOISE between programs? I'm not the only one who feels that it's most irritating--and for no good reason, unless of course, there's some station weird person who likes to do that and can't live without it.

I've been a PBS subscriber and I've supported PBS and watched the NewsHour my entire life. I'm a little disturbed by what I've seen more recently. What I'm seeing could only be called virtual signaling, very extreme left virtue signaling. One of the specifics about that is Black Lives Matter. They basically are falling all over themselves, even with anchors saying, "we support Black Lives Matter." A news organization shouldn't support anyone. While I absolutely agree with the hashtag black lives matter, the organization itself is a very radical left organization. The people funding them are extremist Marxist radicals. You have done nothing to research that and bring that out into the public. The reality is they're a project of a group, you can find this online, that is Thousand Currents. Two of the leaders of that group were a part of the Weather Underground. One had a 56 years jail term for bombings during the 70s, a sentence that was commuted by Bill Clinton. The other had a 16 year sentence for similar activities. The Black Lives Matter organization is a project of this. They are an extreme Marxist group. You are pandering to the extreme left, which I've never seen the NewsHour do before. I'm disgusted by it. I think you've handled the right pretty fairly as far as exposing the extremes on the right. When it comes to the left, you seem to be more and more blinded every single day and your reporting seems to be more and more pandering to extreme right viewpoints. That is something you need to check or else I'll stop watching.

Reading through many of these comments, I am appalled. There is almost nothing but complaints over News Hour (regarded as one of the most neutral television programs in existence) or the fact that federal funding is provided for public television. Obviously many people in this country are in dire need of education--and their lack of understanding beyond their own worldview says that loud and clear.

Some people should not operate a crane building a skyscraper, some should never have control and deadly force over living things, people. WHY IS THIS SUCH A SIMPLE IDEA WITH NO ONE MAKING IT THE MAIN TOPIC !

Please tell Ms Woodruff that she is doing an especially good job in covering this moment of crisis. Her tone, approach, and professional skill is not only good reporting and editing, it is comforting. The message seems to be: yes, the news is terrible and we are reporting it, but we will get through this together. I want her to know I appreciate her work and what she conveys of her own empathy. Thank you.

No more federal fund8ng for pbs and their brainwashing