Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

Two Apple TV apps I have recently discovered and love using:<p>Pluto.tv: replicate the cable guide experience. Endless episodes of things like This Old House, MST3k, and vintage game shows. I <i>much</i> prefer Pluto content to modern HGTV-type cable shows, and it scratches the same itch of &quot;just watch whatever&#x27;s on&quot;.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pluto.tv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pluto.tv&#x2F;</a><p>Kanopy: use your library card or university ID to stream indie movies and documentaries. Free kids programming. Lots of PBS.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kanopy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kanopy.com&#x2F;</a> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kanopy.com&#x2F;kids" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kanopy.com&#x2F;kids</a>

I still just want one simple place to stream all (most, or half, even, would be great, for that matter) of Mister Rogers&#x27; Neighborhood and pre-Elmoization Sesame Street for my kids. Anything else would be a welcome bonus but I mostly just want those.

PBS Digital Studios is one of the best things on YouTube.<p>I particularly like SpaceTime, Eons, and Crash Course. There are many others, too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;pbsdigitalstudios" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;pbsdigitalstudios</a>

About two years ago I did some work for PBS that might be related to this. The objective was to turn their catalog into a static feed that could be consumed by table top boxes.<p>An interesting aspect of the project was that their catalog was fairly well normalized. I was expecting the usual mess of data structures.<p>It was built with vanilla Django. No rest framework because the feed was rendered to static files served by S3. During our discussions I brought using Go for its performance and resilience. That was (correctly) decided against and we went with Django. Why Django? It&#x27;s easy to wrap up periodic jobs as commands and runnning them with django celery.

I would expect PBS, of all TV stations, to be less constrained by distribution contracts and to be able to stream their content worldwide. Instead, they choose Youtube TV which is US-only.

The Sunday night lineup: Masterpiece, Monty Python, The Two Ronnies (or Dave Allen At Large), Doctor Who for an hour and a half until 12:30 ensuring you were tired for school the next morning.<p>Thank God for WTTW 11.

So, it&#x27;s part of tv.youtube.com, which costs $49.99 per month plus tax?

90% of what I watch on tv is PBS. I could see myself switching to YouTube TV just for this. Granted PBS is over the air for free and all of their shows are online for $5&#x2F;mo. but I like my local station&#x27;s lineup selections, etc

I watch PBS NewsHour everyday on YouTube. It&#x27;s great!

This is awesome and really seals the deal for me wrt to youtube tv. It was the one missing channel for me.<p>For local cable operators I think there is a big opportunity though to develop their own apple tv apps to stream IPTV so that the remain relevant. I have pretty fast local internet and youtube tv for less than the bundled package. They are already streaming IPTV to small boxes connected to a TV so it seems like apple tv integration should be easy.

It&#x27;s great to see PBS finding new ways to reach out to audiences through different streaming services. This is a very smart and strategic way to grow it&#x27;s audience.

It will be interesting to see what changes these streaming services bring to TV consumption and the Internet in the next decade. Comcast and other providers are losing subscribers to YouTube TV and Hulu. I suspect this will cause internet prices in the US to rise since these companies will want to make up the shortfall.

The local PBS station in my area has a weak signal but has three to four different channels, one for kids by the way PBS Kids. I&#x27;d like to watch it on Youtube instead.

YouTube TV is nice, but is missing all the Viacom cable channels that are on the other streaming services (Comedy Central, MTV, etc).

Do you know if is there any Kodi Plugin for YouTube TV?

What are great local shows in your area on PBS?

Man, say what you want but YouTube was just a damn brilliant invention.

That&#x27;s all fine and dandy until they get some copyright infringement complaints, Google takes away all of their money, and they have nobody to complain to since Google doesn&#x27;t have people.

Can anyone explain why PBS television stations are local rather than nationwide? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a local program on one, but they seem to have a huge extra layer of bureaucracy in order to broadcast the same programs in a hundred different locations.