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Watching the PBS pledge week stuff.
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aeronca65t
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Funny you should say that.
We were just watching our local PBS TV special with lots of pledge "commercials". It was the Springsteen special with lots of my favourite Jersey music.
My old pal, Gill played in Bruce's band during college and we used to go to Seaside Heights or Asbury to see them (not to see Bruce...to see Gil).
We were just watching our local PBS TV special with lots of pledge "commercials". It was the Springsteen special with lots of my favourite Jersey music.
My old pal, Gill played in Bruce's band during college and we used to go to Seaside Heights or Asbury to see them (not to see Bruce...to see Gil).
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Interesting bit about PBS here in Connecticut. The seemingly endless "Dr Suze" and "Retire Rich" "Young Forever" and "Folk music hits" shows running 24/7 for two weeks straight can be embarrassing for the local stations. Our Connecticut public television now rarely even has "live" people at the pledge breaks, but just runs a generic "call this number to pledge" tape with an 800 number scrolling across the screen. Implies they don't even have enough local support to run the telephones.
Sad that public TV is struggling against the watered down shows on cable, which seem geared toward elementary school kids (and even that's a stretch).
Sad that public TV is struggling against the watered down shows on cable, which seem geared toward elementary school kids (and even that's a stretch).
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PBS has a fan base here in Alberta, catching the Spokane station, and I'm a fairly regular viewer, except the last two weeks... I call it over kill...
We have a public radio station here in Alberta, called CKUA, they fund raise twice a year for operational funds... They used to run it for two weeks at a time, but a few years ago scaled it back to about nine days... Still getting the same money, people who are going to give will give, no matter how long the campaign runs for...
Just hoping it's back to normal next week for PBS programing... :hammer:
We have a public radio station here in Alberta, called CKUA, they fund raise twice a year for operational funds... They used to run it for two weeks at a time, but a few years ago scaled it back to about nine days... Still getting the same money, people who are going to give will give, no matter how long the campaign runs for...
Just hoping it's back to normal next week for PBS programing... :hammer:
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I actually stop watching during the pledge weeks around here. We have seen most of the "Ed Sullivan" recaps, and the concerts by groups I liked in my teens. We normally watch PBS several nights a week, but none of our favorite PBS fodder is being run, so we have turned off PBS for now. I will send my annual donation when they have on the shows I enjoy, not their so-called "viewer favorites".
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Spokane PBS had three weeks of fund raising! It looks like they are back to normal, I think...
What I don't understand, is that they are running programing - during funding drive - that is almost never used during normal operations... :rapture: