PBS TO PUT PRODUCTS AT PEOPLE'S FINGERTIPS.Byline: David Armstrong David Armstrong may refer to:
19th century The beginning of the Examiner is a topic of some controversy. As Public Broadcasting Service “PBS” redirects here. For other uses, see PBS (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS officials meet Monday in San Francisco in their annual convention to hash over the future of public TV, members of the public will be presented with a new way to fund the service via cyberspace. PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, plans to launch shopPBS, a site on the World Wide Web designed to sell Designed to Sell is an HGTV American reality television show hosted by Clive Pearse. The show focuses on the fixing up and renovation of a home that is about to go on the market. It is one half hour long and is produced by Pietown Productions. The show began airing in 2004. home video versions of about 190 PBS programs. In time, said PBS spokesman Stu Kantor, shopPBS will also be hawking ``other program-related apparel and merchandise.'' PBS already sells its shows on videotape through the likes of the Blockbuster Video chain and other retail outlets, according to Kantor, but the new Web site will propel the system into the future all the faster. It's not the first Web site for the perpetually cash-strapped system. That distinction goes to PBS ONLINE, a site that, according to Kantor, registers 1 million hits a week, and offers ``over 25,000 pages of content.'' That site, however, doesn't actually offer programs, but rather what Kantor describes as ``enlarged education and information services See Information Systems. .'' The producers of ``Frontline,'' ``The NewsHour,'' ``Nova'' and other PBS shows log on to interact with viewers. PBS station and network executives will meet at the downtown San Francisco Hilton Hotel Saturday through Tuesday. Featured are appearances by PBS president Ervin Duggan and chairman Gerald Baliles and stars in the public TV firmament such as documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, actor LeVar Burton, wise man Bill Moyers and spokescreature Big Bird. Monday's keynote speaker is Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems, which underwrites PBS' ``Life on the Internet'' series. All told, about 1,100 station managers, producers, programmers and others are expected to attend. |
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