PBS Launches New Digital Media Education Platform

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

PBS has teamed with producing stations WGBH Boston, WNET New York, and KET (Kentucky Educational TV) and 31 other noncommercial stations on a new service, PBSLearningMedia.

The digital media educational service will be free to teachers, their students and families. It will include both library material from PBS and donated material from the National Archives, the Library of Congress, NASA, National Science Foundation, NIH, Department of Education, and NPR.

The content represents the work of over 1,500 producers and more than 14,000 resources according to PBS, including video, audio, apps and lesson plans.

A customizable version of the platform will be available this fall, with Texas PBS the first out of the blocks in collaboration with the New York Times this summer.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.