PBS Programing
This is the long weekend of October celebrating on Monday,
Indigenous People's Day.
Searching the local PBS schedules, thinking I will find programs about the Indigenous people of America, I find nothing being aired today. Instead, one station has an afternoon marathon, for a Black American series, and the other station is airing programs about Elvis.
I'm guessing this is only Sunday. There will probably be programs about Indigenous people tomorrow. On Monday, 9 October 2023 EDT, one station at 10 PM EDT has a program schedule to be aired, "The American Buffalo: A Story of Resilience," hosted by Judy Woodruff. The Vermont PBS station has nothing about American Indigenous people on Indigenous People's Day.
I have no words.
I don't know if the US Indigenous People's Day is a new thing similar to National Truth And Reconciliation Day here. Perhaps the lack of programming is because the industry hasn't caught up to the fact it's something they should be doing. Not making excuses for them however. Our tv provider has a mainly Indigenous channel that pretty much offers that sort of programming, good and bad.
ReplyDeleteMaryanne,
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting, a reconciliation day.
The holiday here use to be Columbus Day until facts prove he did not discover America. Vikings crossed the northern Atlantic before Columbus landed on a Carribean island. Columbus never landed on North American soil.
However, America is named after an Italian, Amerigo Vespucci.
The holiday name change makes sense since Indigenous People were in American before Europeans landed.
We are at the beginning of doing better towards the Indigenous people here in Canada. We have a long way to go!
ReplyDeleteMarie,
ReplyDeleteIt is good there is progress in addressing past wrongs.
I applaud Canada.
If the local PBS stations had better scheduling for sensitive holidays, then it would be progress in America.
After reading your post, I checked today's schedule for the NH PBS station we normally watch. There were no special programs listed here as well. The American Buffalo program you mentioned was airing here as well.
ReplyDeleteBeatrice,
ReplyDeleteThat's sad there aren't PBS programs in homor of Indigenous Peoples' Day. In a way, it is not a surprise.
Don't bet the farm on it. If it's pledge week on PBS, all bets are off. I used to hate that when I was working -- we'd dump Nova or Frontline for music specials or things about managing money or weight. The Ken Burns buffalo show, though, is very interesting.
ReplyDeleteJeanie,
ReplyDeletePBS does do pledge week better than in the past. I dreaded June because it's the end of the fiscal year aka a whole month of pleading, and lousy program schedules.
That is surprising.
ReplyDeleteWilliam,
ReplyDeleteI agree. It is quite a surprise local PBS station schedules are so far off.