Thread: Hey Voom, us parents need PBS kids!

Wow...vurbano, Im suprised that PBS does that when they are running HD. All of the PBS stations here in NY/NJ cut it down to one STD ch and one HD ch when they are showing HD. WNET in NY only has 2 sub stations instead of 5....which allows them to run HD and PBS kids on a regular basis. 4 sub ch's with one of them broadcasting HD is not even worth it!!! Shows you how much they care.

Our local digital PBS tried multicasting it but couldn't get it right so they canned it. I would love to have this channel since I have an 8 year old daughter and PBS is her primary viewing channel.

Darrel,

We had this channel on DTV and it really has such great shows! I sent Voom an email about PBS Kids last night and got the old "we'll get back to you in 24 hours" - nothing yet of course.

Our local LA PBS Station (KCET) has some of the limited content of PBS Kids, but only for a few hours.

One thing that really burns me about our local PBS is that they don't run anything in sync with the National PBS feed. In the morning at 7:30, National PBS shows Clifford's Puppy Days in HD, we get CPD once on Wed & a repeat on Saturday and it is an upconversion of the Analog channel. Our PBS mirrors the Analog channel all day until 8 PM, then they show 100% widescreen with about 10% in HD, the rest are upconverts. I've given up on them since most of their programming is now available elsewhere.

The one channel that my little son misses from the cable days is Nick Jr. He misses Face, Dora: The Explorer, Blues Clues. Although now he loves Voltron @ Animania.