world channel formerly PBS world is an American digital multicast public television network owned and operated by WGBH it is distributed by American Public Television and the National educational Telecommunications Association and features factual programming covering topics such as science nature news and public affairs programming is supplied by the entities as well as other partners such as wnet and WGBH it is primarily carried on the digital sub-channels of PBS member stations topic background in 2004 the John s and James L Knight foundation granted PBS funds to develop a public affairs network public square' given the change in broadcasting to digital thus allowing stations to broadcast multiple channels public square' was also a name previous given to a proposed Civic series in early 2000s the knight Foundation announced a challenge grant to PBS to launch this network on December 14 2004 at the digital futures initiative Summit PBS would have to raise double the grant amount to get the Foundation's grant additional the foundation made a grant to PBS for the first programs pilot slated for the network the program global watch was to be co-produced by KCET and KQED the pilot aired on PBS national program service while the series would only continue on public square PBS was also discussing with WGBH and wnet to fold public square and world together topic history WGBH and wnet were developing world in 2004 by December 2005 Boston's WGBH and wnet were already broadcasting world on a sub Channel and added by April 2006 Washington's wetter san francisco's KQED were already broadcasting its own nonfiction encore channel before April 2005 to then WGBH and wnet team up with PBS to roll out a national version of the local channels as world with KQED continuing on its own the station's are supposed to program and PBS distributing the network public square was expected to exist as a two to three hours long hosted weeknight programming block on the channel the network was launched nationally on August 15 2007 for the first year the four Foundation granted some funds to cover cost while PBS was contributing some funding from it revenue generating activities as of March 2009 there was no national underwriter for the network as one had not been pursued as the network lacked enough coverage to land one on July 1st 2009 PBS withdrew from the channel by September 2009 ITV s's Global Voices was the only original program for the network an overhaul of the network was in the work as of September 8 2009 CPB agreed to fund R&D for the relaunch and cover costs as stations would not have to pay the license until June 2011 the network was relaunched in July 2010 with the revamped website slate for July 1st with more of a rollout the relaunch is also draw in the stations as digital tear channel are more likely to be pick up by cable subscribers Nielsen rating as small but improving and to use more of the channel width as to avoid any FCC reduction of the width the relaunched service seemed more as a multimedia outlet than just a TV channel was planned to target a more diverse color audience with a median age of 36 the revamp world would have a monthly theme for coherence and personality to create online action and buzz the channel started to reach out to more sources reviewing archives film festivals indie producer hubs like Bay Area video coalition Public Radio Independent Television service link TV mine TV minority consortium new American media the Sundance Institute and youth media international with little funding for programs the channel is using a new low-cost collaborative model by offering distribution while producers would have to drum up funding in September 2011 a new general manager elizabeth cheng for the network was hired united states budget sequestration in twin thirteen calls to cut in Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget the CPB then used some fund seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars formerly earmarked for the National minority consortio to the world network topic operations the network is available to stations that a member of app Tonetta formerly available to PBS is national program service subscribers and PBS Plus members affiliation fees of four levels from five thousand five hundred dollars to thirty two thousand dollars a year which only cover 50% of the channels cost stations are required to broadcast half of the network's broadcast day in order to retain their affiliation thus many member stations with limited channel capacity usually carry the network in a 50/50 split with create as both networks maintain looping schedules cost are kept down as the channel uses rights and content previously available programming has come from PBS Netta apt and ITV s international topic programs [Music] world shows a call three-hour documentary block four times a day with other programs circulate in the other 12 hours this gives viewers increased chances to see a program which might be shown from four to eight times a week topic current programming afropop the ultimate cultural exchange America reframed the day ah world local USA stories from the stage stations may also choose to place their own programming such as local government hearings and events on the sub channel at local discretion public square programming block global watch topic affiliates world is carried by the following stations from https://iptvrestream.net/us/world-tv-channel-wikipedia-audio-article-2/
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