How much will it cost for stations to license PBS World to put it on their DTV channels?
The range is $3,000 to $32,000, depending on the market and station specifics. How much time and money will PBS World have for original programming, such as the nightly world news program Global Watch, which was to come from a partnership of KCET and your former station, KQED? When a Global Watch pilot is produced, I anticipate it will air on both the NPS and PBS World. As for having other original programming, we had experience with early versions of World at KQED, WGBH, WNET and WETA, and we found you can use unduplicated programming that simply cannot fit on the NPS. To a great extent though, what World provides is additional opportunities to watch some of our best nonfiction programming. Who will schedule the channel? It’s a very interesting five-way collaboration. It’s a PBS offering, produced in partnership with WGBH and WNET, and in association with APT and NETA. We commissioned WGBH to do the program schedule. Is there a World czar? No, but there are World point-people at each
