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Causes: Arts & Culture, Television
Programs: Programming represents approximately 1,728 hours of broadcast content, provided by pbs to its 157 member public television licensees, to inform, inspire, engage, and educate. This expense category includes costs associated with administering programming, including content oversight, program scheduling and packaging, and broadcast rights acquisition.
technical services & interconnection - represents the scheduling and logging of all satellite feeds; media operations center handling, technical evaluation and other pre-transmission processing of all program video; and program origination transmission including operational support for news and other live event coverage. This expense category also includes other technical research and planning, the management of excess satellite transponder capacity, and the lease and acquisition of satellite capacity.
promotion - represents institutional and program promotion, and press efforts intended to increase viewership and increase awareness of the value of public television. These activities provide public television stations with a broad array of promotional support, including on-air and online promotional spots, social media, print and radio advertising, press support and the coordination of public televisions educational message and positioning.