One of the low points of being a cord cutter has been the lack of PBS content. If you were someone that could not get your local PBS station over the air, there wasn’t really a live streaming option for you in most cases. (Yes, there is the digital translator Locast, but it still servers only 16 city areas at the time of this posting.)
So you were just out of luck when cane to watching Antiques Roadshow, Frontline and Masterpiece.
That is now an issue of the past for YouTube TV subscribers, the streamer now features dedicated live channels for PBS and PBS Kids, as well as on-demand programming. According to PBS, this is the first local livestreaming partnership for the public network.
“PBS is committed to making trusted content available to all households across as many platforms as possible,” said Ira Rubenstein, PBS chief digital and marketing officer. “We are pleased that YouTube TV recognizes public television’s unique structure and worked with us to provide our viewers with more ways to watch programs that they love through their local PBS station.”
Full line-ups in the participating areas are available either through the YouTube TV live guide or the PBS schedule. Select content is also available through YouTube TV’s VOD service.
According to PBS, than 100 of its member stations are now streaming live on YouTube TV with more to follow next year!
