Educational TV Schedule: Thursday, January 3, 2013
IPTV Shutting Down Transmitters Overnight
Iowa Public Television is currently shutting our transmitters down every day from midnight to 5 a.m. and our service is not available in these hours. This difficult decision was made to reduce our expenses in light of funding cuts. By powering down the transmitters, we are saving electricity and staff costs. One exception to this is Mediacom Cable. Because Mediacom established a direct connection in our operations center many years ago, the company is able to carry IPTV's signal 24 hours a day, despite the fact that our transmitters are turned off. We receive no money from Mediacom for this. Our overnight service is very important, both to us and our viewers. While we do hope this is a temporary situation, we don't know when or if we will be able to reinstate it. Until the economic climate turns around, this situation is one way we are working to provide service to Iowans within the constraints of our current circumstances.
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Find a PreK-12 TV Program
- 2:00 AM
- GreenWorks - Who says the environment should be just one single course in the curriculum? For students at the East Hills middle...
- 2:26 AM
- GreenWorks - Journey through time and share the passion and perseverance of four of the nation's original environmentalists: Rachel...
- 3:00 AM
- The Habitable Planet - Species are being lost at a rapid rate in rainforests and coral reefs. Yet many species still have not been...
- 3:29 AM
- The Habitable Planet - Polluting the atmosphere with ever more carbon dioxide is not a viable solution for our future energy needs. Can new...
- 4:00 AM
- Explore More - Genetic engineering has the potential to change the way we live. The science behind the agricultural, medical, and...
- 4:29 AM
- Explore More - From fossil fuels to wind power, there are several options in our current mix of energy resources. The benefits and...
- 5:00 AM
- Biz Kid$ - Find out how to avoid common money mistakes and learn the importance of following a financial plan.
- 5:29 AM
- Bill Nye the Science Guy - You won't believe your eyes when the Science Guy reflects, refracts, bends, bounces, absorbs, and pulls light waves...
- 6:30 AM
- Martha Speaks - Carolina's canoe capsizes when she goes gathering plants. Tiffany wants to make a girls' clubhouse.
- 7:00 AM
- Curious George - George and Allie run out of clay while making a ginormous sculpture of Bill's sprained thumb.
- 7:30 AM
- The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot... - The kids visit Jumpalaroo to learn how to jump from grasshoppers, a kangaroo and even a flea!
- 8:00 AM
- Super Why! - The Super Readers head into a story to meet a ballerina doll named Molly who has stage fright.
- 8:30 AM
- Dinosaur Train - Don organizes all the dinosaurs on the Train by their species, features and size.
- 9:00 AM
- Sesame Street - Elmo and Telly become the Noise Patrol and keep loud noises away from Leela's sleeping baby niece.
- 10:30 AM
- Sid The Science Kid - Sid uses his skateboard to discover that things in motion stay in motion until they are stopped.
- 11:00 AM
- WordWorld - When Ant gets sick, Pig makes him a special soup that has all the letters in the alphabet in it.
- 12:00 PM
- Caillou - Mommy & Daddy help Caillou pretend to be animals when he's disappointed that he can't go to the zoo.
- 1:00 PM
- Clifford the Big Red Dog - Mac starts a club and tries to exclude T-Bone. Mr. Bleakman makes the park "off limits" to dogs.
- 2:00 PM
- Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman - Ruff sends the FETCHers to Florida to learn about turtles and help turtle hatchlings on the beach.
- 2:30 PM
- The Electric Company - Hector is chosen to give a presentation on stamina, but the pranksters keep him from getting rest.
- 3:00 PM
- Arthur - An architect helps the gang rebuild their tree house. Arthur's chorus group has a new teacher.
- 3:30 PM
- Martha Speaks - Carolina's canoe capsizes when she goes gathering plants. Tiffany wants to make a girls' clubhouse.
- 4:00 PM
- Wild Kratts - When Chris and Martin meet up with a mob of Red kangaroos, they get their car keys stolen by a joey.
- 4:30 PM
- WordGirl - Since Victoria Best couldn't outdo WordGirl at being a superhero she decides to be a great villain.
- 5:00 PM
- Curious George - George and Allie run out of clay while making a ginormous sculpture of Bill's sprained thumb.
