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Going to miss KBYU
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:50 pm
by moksha
I'm going to miss KBYU being a PBS station. Some of the British shows were quite enjoyable. Now they can cater to a mormocentric audience, with Church made programs and primetime fare like Muppets in Space.
I can understand BYU's need. They create a lot of wholesome family fare. Without PBS, they will not have to suffer through those programs on evolution, space phenomena and anomalies, and the timeline of the universe.
Re: Going to miss KBYU
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 3:28 pm
by Just This Guy
KBYU dropping PBS for their content and going independent?
Re: Going to miss KBYU
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 3:52 pm
by Red Ryder
Just This Guy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 3:28 pm
KBYU dropping PBS for their content and going independent?
I hear that worked out really well for their football team!
Re: Going to miss KBYU
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:10 pm
by Just This Guy
Why have real victories when you can have "moral victories"?
Re: Going to miss KBYU
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:09 am
by RubinHighlander
moksha wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:50 pm
I'm going to miss KBYU being a PBS station. Some of the British shows were quite enjoyable. Now they can cater to a mormocentric audience, with Church made programs and primetime fare like Muppets in Space.
I can understand BYU's need. They create a lot of wholesome family fare. Without PBS, they will not have to suffer through those programs on evolution, space phenomena and anomalies, and the timeline of the universe.
Hmmmm...is the COB dictating more media control in order to better control the airwave narrative for it's TBMs? If you see encouragement over the pulpit for TBMs to tune into that one channel and avoid all others then the answer is clear. Making wholesome programming more holy perhaps. I used to frequent KBYU for PBS content, but I'll just be removing this one off the channel list now.
Re: Going to miss KBYU
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:46 pm
by Raylan Givens
No one watches it anyway (streaming). They just don't want to pay money for the PBS content, it is getting expensive.
Re: Going to miss KBYU
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:48 pm
by Random
Wait. What? Are they getting rid of KBYU altogether, or are they just removing themselves from PBS and renaming the channel?
Re: Going to miss KBYU
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:14 pm
by IT_Veteran
There's already a BYUTV cable/satellite channel. My guess is they don't want to pay PBS fees and they'll just broadcast their cable channel locally so people without cable/satellite in Utah can still watch. Or they've realized that between their apps and the cable channel, nobody was watching their content on KBYU anyway.
Re: Going to miss KBYU
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:48 pm
by Random
Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.