PLAYPBS

posted by Jack Gibson

This month, we are pleased to offer you a first look at an exciting new online program delivery service that gives you, the viewer, the best from PBS and AZPM. It's called PlayPBS.

PlayPBS lets you catch up on program episodes you may have missed and watch many of your favorite, full-length shows free and on-demand. PlayPBS takes the user on a journey through the AZPM program library, potentially offering content unseen for years. Adding to our already diverse broadcast program offerings, PlayPBS offers viewers an opportunity to watch their favorite AZPM titles anytime and anywhere they have an internet connection.

Finally, one of the more powerful aspects of the system, the content sharing, can transport users around the globe on a voyage of content exploration. Today, whether in Miami or Milwaukee you can go the local PBS station’s website and search Arizona Illustrated and you will be connected in seconds to content produced in Tucson by AZPM. A great way to stay connected while traveling.

For children's programming, explore PBS KIDS GO!, with more than 250 hours of full-length episodes featuring favorites such as Arthur, Maya & Miguel and WordGirl.

PlayPBS can be found at PlayPBS (or http://playpbs.azpm.org).

iTunes

Our Classical radio programming is now available through the iTunes radio tuner! In fact, iTunes now features three streams of Classical KUAT-FM including our highest quality 192K stream (the only 192K stream available in the classical genre).

Bill Moyers

I want to publicly tip my hat to Bill Moyers, who will retire from our airwaves with the April 30th episode of the weekly series, Bill Moyers Journal.

Moyers has enriched the public airwaves with innumerable high-quality productions including Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth, On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying and more recently Moyers on America and Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason. And, while Bill leaves the weekly program, our hope is that he will continue to develop special productions long into the future.

Production of Now on PBS also wraps up at month’s end. Coming in May on Fridays at 8:30 p.m. is a new current affairs series, Need to Know.

Thank you for tuning in — and thanks for your continued support of Arizona Public Media.

Jack Gibson