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PBS Signs Download Deals with BitTorrent, Vuze

‘Download-to-Own’ Arrangements Include Nova , History Detectives , PBS Kids, Teletubbies , Programming from PBS Affiliate Stations

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/7/2007 6:59:00 AM

PBS signed new online deals for its TV shows with BitTorrent and Vuze.

Both are "download-to-own" arrangements for shows including Nova, History Detectives, PBS Kids and Teletubbies, as well as some programming from PBS affiliate stations.

PBS shares the BitTorrent online-content platform with 20^th Century Fox, MTV Networks, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount and Warner Bros., among others.

PBS programming is also currently available download-to-own online at iTunes  and Amazon's Unbox. Other PBS programming is available for free streaming at PBS.org, though mostly different from the pay content and in lower resolution.

The BitTorrent and Vuze content is available in either standard or high resolution.

Both deals have been in the works for months. PBS is increasingly seeking out new platforms.

“As of last week, PBS had two of the top 100 podcasts on iTunes, Wired Science and Bill Moyers Journal," PBS spokesman Kevin Dando said. "The PBS audience seems to like this kind of access.”

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  Will PBS also be making available downloads of the pro-war propaganda concerning Iran it airs on NewsHour? It would make such a nice matched set next to the similar propaganda it aired recently on Frontline:
  
  (for more on this, go to www.chicagomediaaction.org entry #577)
  
  Soon, maybe PBS will also offer us for high def download a hefty boxed set comprising the pro-war propaganda it aired during the lead-up to the illegal and immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq since which 1.2 million? innocent Iraqi civilians have been murdered. Perhaps a "best of" PBS war propaganda highlights reel is in the making too?.
  
  (Scroll down towards the bottom of the blog entry linked above and click where it says "Further reading here." for an essay from "Z Magazine" on this subject.)
  

  
  

  
  Scott Sanders - 11/8/2007 9:25:00 PM EST
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