My local community radio station has one signal, two repeaters and an FM translator covering our rural/semi-rural Northern California region. The station created three advisory boards for its three frequencies -- one original and two translators -- but recently consolidated them into one central advisory board. Consolidating the CABs into a central advisory board excludes reporting from most of the population it serves. Some listener areas -- including the county seat and a state university -- are a two-hour drive from the board meetings and there are diverse and distinct ethnicities, local traditions and economic, educational, and environmental concerns that I believe should be represented. Does each repeater/frequency require a community advisory board? Thank you, Emma Nation
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Impeachment Hearings
I would like to request that PBS show the hearings on impeachment in the primetime hours for people that are unable to watch during the day.
Questions on bequests
Please have someone call us (or give us their telephone number). We would like to make a bequest or a trust for your company in our wills and wonder also if you do estate administration. Thanks, Susan Gouger, 973 328 8551
Pinkalicious
I watch Pinkalicious with my biracial granddaughter. One particular episode featured the little girl going to the hair dresser. After getting her hair done, Pinkalicious thanks the hairdresser by her first name. It may be coincidental that Pinkalicious is white and the hair dresser is black, but it made me very uncomfortable that this little girl would refer to the adult by her first name, without a title. Does Pinkalicious call all adults by their first name? I don't know but it seemed odd that she would refer to her African American elder by her first name. Perhaps I'm being overly sensitive, but I would hate to think that either Pinkalicious is allowed to call all adults by their first name, or perhaps just the black ones. This is Just a word of concern from the grandmother of a little biracial child who will have a whole world of prejudice to learn about. Hopefully she won't learn about it from PBS.
Broadcast the Impeachment Hearing
As a “viewer like you” and a contributor not only to our local PBS station but to three public radio stations, I encourage PBS to broadcast gavel-to-gavel coverage of the upcoming impeachment hearing for the reasons as cogently expressed in the full-page ad published in today’s New York Times (and I presume in other newspapers as well). Regardless of one’s position on the matter, access to the information to be developed serves the very purpose for which public broadcasting was established and which is presented absent bias and spin.
Impeachment hearings
I agree with the call for pbs to broadcast these hearings in the evening, just like you did the Nixon hearings. Serve the public by allowing the majority of working Americans to watch these hearings for themselves! Please! Regular programming won’t forward democracy; these hearings will. Judy Johnson
Reception in my area
As of Friday, I have been unable to pick up your stations. Wonder if it's just me or problem in my area. Thank you!
Upcoming Hearings on Impeachment
PBS rebroadcasting the hearings in prime time evening hours would allow working persons unable to see the morning broadcasts ( keeping commentary to a minimum) would be a service to our nation. Just do it!
The criminal Jamie Diamond
Gee seeing on your program allowing g him to speak about his helping Detroit is such bullshit. Why didn’t you ask him about his Rico charges or his gold fixing schemes. When did pbs become a PR puppet for Jamie Diamond?
Impeachment Hearings
Thank you so very much for providing live coverage of the hearing today. It's vital that Americans get to see such events in real time without the filter of reporters / pundits, and only CPB was willing to do this on air and not just streaming. We live in rural SC without cable and with only limited bandwidth. Without your service, this important event would have been unavailable to us.
We are grateful for CPB, PBS, and WETV-Greenville, SC.
Impeachment notice during nova
Impeachment notice during nova You’re running of a subtitle message to view Impeachment procedures during are you daughter da Vinci nova Copperside is disgusting. I find it insulting when watching a non-political program to be subjected to liberal attacks on our president. I quickly change the channel and will re-examine my donations to PBS in the future.
PBS News
I have been watching the Lehrer report/PBS News with Judy Woodruff for many year years. She is a great reporter and an elegant lady.
Lately, she seems to be a little bias. Why give all this time to Hillary and her daughter for her book’s advertisement? Please, be objective for there are real authors out there who would enrich the public’s knowledge. Another handicap of these news is the addition of some not very capable women reporters who they really do not belong there. Those are: Yamish, whose speech is poor and inadequate weak reports. Another is Lisa who her trying to “compliment” Judy with her low level reports. Finally, Amna Nawaz with her long appalling nails, her strong body language and expressions and one sided reports, is hard to take. PBS News has lost its serious approach to the news. It is all about performance. Please hire some serious people.
Proposal: A Public Option Social Media Platform operated by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Revelations concerning widespread abuse by many commercially available social media platforms are deeply troubling. These huge platforms have become purveyors of false advertising, both political and commercial, have participated in providing insidious foreign influence and become vehicles for rampant cyber-bullying as well as child pornography. Public trust has been violated in numerous ways, including the sale of private information, the reliance on a lack of user understanding regarding privacy settings and a paucity of legislative and self-regulation in the industry. We have all observed a failure to monitor policy and practice until finally compelled by public and political pressures. Most alarming is the willful use of the First Amendment as a shield to ignore or avoid actions that will eliminate abuse and regain public trust with ethical behavior.
There is an approach that would effectively address many of the aforementioned unacceptable realities. That approach would be a Public Option Social Media Platform. A nonprofit platform that would offer all of the original family and friend communication services that are not problematic. There would be no advertising and no ability to disseminate false, dangerous or destructive news sources.
Conveniently, the vehicle for this concept already exists. According to its published goals and objectives, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private, nonprofit corporation created and funded by Congress in 1967. CPB’s mission is to ensure universal access, over-the-air and online, to high-quality content and telecommunications services that are commercial free and free of charge.
Just as National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) were originally designed as public options to commercial radio and television, so would this Public Social Media (PSM) option be available to those who choose to enroll.
It should be emphasized that this public option, as part of the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, like the proposals for a health care public insurance option, would be a choice to be made by each individual and would in no way be mandatory. In fact, there would be many who would want more than such a public option might offer and choose the commercial options that presently exist. It is also possible that enough individuals would support the public option so that market place forces could generate positive changes in the commercial environment.
There would certainly be many challenges to the development of an appropriate Public Option Social Media Platform but perhaps the time has come in this country for serious consideration.
Michael Rolnick Farmington Hills, Michigan 248-763-2916
newshour
I am tired of the politics on newshour; please make the news more balanced. I can't believe the hole hour is covering the impeachment hearings. Lots of chit chat, politics and senseless conversations. Please cover more real news; there should be more to cover. Thanks.
PBS News Hour Judy Woodruff
Ken Burns Country Music series
Ken Burns 8 part 2 hour series - country music
PBS News Hour - 10/3/19
Very disappointed with comment from the US Attorney General (under Bush). I watch (carefully) news for content, not insult. Too much `noise' and very little `signal.' He insulted the co-commentator at the end of the interviews with " ... a lotta syllables in there but ... not a lotta substance." Please select commentators for interview who are mature enough to match the viewership.
Judy Woodruff's Interview With Vice President Pence
Dear Ms Woodruff~ Thank you for such a truth searching interview with Vice President Pence. Your in depth probing of the truth was excellent. You effectively revealed that we have a President who is untruthful and a Vice President who echoes the same defect. What a sad state of affairs when lying to the American people has become so commonplace. It was obvious from your questioning the Vice President was untruthful. Pence's question avoidance as well as his spinning and tap dancing around your probing and revealing questions exposed his character for what it is....deceptive and intellectually insufficient!! Once again, thank you for exposing such an untruthful person. C. William Howe, Bath, Michigan
General programing
I do not listen much to NPR, but when I do, I always wonder why you as a corporation, lean so far left! Most legitimate news organizations give both sides of any given subject, and let the listeners choose how They feel and who/what they support! Federal money (my tax dollars) should not fund a fully left leaning organization!