A good instance for PBS shows?

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Peertube Poster 9001

Hello everyone, resident peertube poster here.

With the near shutdown of PBS , what would be a good instance for old PBS shows?

https://www.pbs.org/shows/

I would throw it on my own but I have no where near the hard-drive space. Or are they already on archive.org somewhere?

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I feel obliged to point out that PBS isn’t shutting down. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to shut down, but they allocated federal funding to local PBS stations so their role is now somewhat moot with the funding rescission. Local stations, and the PBS network, will continue to produce excellent programming because a majority of their funding comes from local donors, not the CPB.

I don’t think you’ll see any changes to the PBS website or archives.

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Oh! That’s great news. The news articles call made it seem like the website and streaming will go down soon. Maybe they are just sensational titles then.

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Tbh, it’s still pretty huge the funding got completely cut. And that the CPB shut down rather than leave the door open for a takeover of their legitimacy by the right-wing propaganda machine. We all need to be giving money to our local NPR and PBS stations to keep them going if possible.

I’m not yet able to give enough money to persuade mine to adopt my proposal that they never play another clip of Trump’s nauseating voice, much less his speeches. I want the stories of what he’s doing and saying reported, but Scott Simon or whoever quoting or summarizing would be much more tolerable.

Still, I give what I can, and I hope y’all will too

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Tbh, it’s still pretty huge the funding got completely cut. And that the CPB shut down rather than leave the door open for a takeover of their legitimacy by the right-wing propaganda machine. We all need to be giving money to our local NPR and PBS stations to keep them going if possible.

Totally agree, we need to press legislators to refund public media as soon as possible, but at least stations are continuing with what local funding they can muster.

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Good news at least Archive.org has some good collections already: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22pbs%22&sort=-downloads

But the data hoarder side of me wants to have a local collection as well. Just in case. Cause archive I think will be on the chopping block at some point.

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