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Monday’s hearing, for example, took a back seat to children’s programming on WyomingPBS, the statewide public broadcaster. The station aired its usual morning bloc of “Curious George” and “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood” on its main high-definition signal. The hearings appeared on a digital subchannel called Create, which typically features cooking and sewing programs and episodes of “This Old House.” …
“We have a commitment to the parents in Wyoming to provide a ‘safe harbor’ on our main channel for their children during the day,” said Terry Dugas, the station’s general manager. As of Tuesday morning, he said, “we’ve received no complaints.”
Public stations in regions that skew blue as well as red made the same kind of decision. PBS stations in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia and Iowa, among other states, aired kids’ shows on their main channels, and broadcast the hearings on a digital sub-channel called World, which features news, documentaries and discussion programs.
