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Can I Tell You How To Get To Sesame Street? It's Moved. Go To Channel 50
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Late last week, KCET, the primary PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, announced that it was dumping PBS entirely because the network's fees had gotten too expensive. They're going to import shows from Germany, Japan, and elsewhere instead of "News Hour" or "Sesame Street" or whatever else PBS has these days. Now, Los Angeles does have other PBS affiliates -- that was part of the problem, with the other three repeating the same shows on a delay -- and the Orange County PBS station, KOCE-TV, is already lining up to be the primary PBS affiliate here. But it's a ballsy (and possibly suicidal) move by KCET, and it raises a couple of topics, one being if you could live without PBS (and whether there even NEEDS to be a PBS in 2010), and the other being the price points that would force you to give up "necessities." How much would be too much for, say, cable TV, or gas, or health insurance? When does it get to the point where you have to say no? (KTLA/Los Angeles)
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