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PBS
Member Stations
All
349 Public Television stations are notified through PBS Express,
the internal Intranet communications network, prior to release
through the Public Television satellite system. Advisories
include transmission date and times, satellite coordinates,
story summary, and technical and editorial contacts.
Currently,
more than 100 U.S. public television stations broadcast Fast
Focus short-form programming in all day-parts, both "prime-time"
and "nonprime". The Fast Focus series now reaches
8 of the top 10 markets - over 60 million households nationwide.
Some
cable networks may seem similar to Public Television, but
are they really the same? The facts tell the story. Public
Television has nearly two times the coverage of CNN, Discovery,
and A&E. Nearly one-third of all TV households tune to
Public Television during the average week. Public Television
reaches 2-3 times as many households in primetime than CNN,
Discovery, and A&E. Click on the following link to learn
more about The
Public Television Audience
Fast
Focus shorts are typically broadcast for an average of seven
months and many continue to air for as long as 18 months.
International
Channel Networks®
International
Channel Networks or ICN® is a leading source of multicultural
news, information and entertainment, reaching over 700 cities
in the United States. The wide variety of content available
through ICN® connects viewers to communities and cultures
from around the world.
The
International Channel offers the only nationwide cable television
channel serving multiple ethnic audiences with programming
in more than 20 Asian, European and Middle Eastern languages.
In addition, International Channel Networks provides 15 premium
services that offer specific non-English programming from
a variety of international sources: African Independent Television
(African), ART (Arabic), CCTV-4 (Chinese), Channel One Russia
(Russian), CTI Zhong Tian Channel (Chinese), MBC (Korean),
RAI (Italian), Rang-A-Rang (Iranian), RTN (Russian), SBTN
(Vietnamese), The Filipino Channel (Filipino), TV Asia (South
Asian), TV JAPAN (Japanese), TV5 (French) and TV Polonia (Polish).
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International
Broadcasting Bureau’s WORLDNET
WORLDNET
reaches a worldwide audience 24 hours a day, seven days
a week by satellite to more than 740 international broadcast
and cable services in 65 countries.
Fast
Focus programs are now carried on WORLDNET, the international
television broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government.
Launched in 1983, WORLDNET was the first U.S. broadcast
organization to provide "made in America" programming
of high content and production quality to overseas broadcasters.
WORLDNET broadcasts news, information, educational, and
programming which originally broadcast on PBS, such as "The
News Hour with Jim Lehrer".
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www.FastFocus.tv
Fast
Focus viewers are invited to learn more about programs by
visiting www.fastfocus.tv, where streaming video and resources
are available. The Fast Focus series receives viewer e-mail
from nearly every state in the U.S. and from countries as
near as Canada and England to as far away as India. The Fast
Focus site also receives regular visits from viewers in over
thirty different countries.
Fast
Focus on BellSouth.net
Streaming
Video of Fast Focus segments are also available on-demand
to millions of BellSouth
subscribers
at www.home.BellSouth.net,
including over 800,000 high-speed DSL subscribers.
BellSouth.net
generates over 88 million page views per month, 33
million visits per month, and
1.2
million visits per day.
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