Educational TV Schedule: Thursday, February 7, 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
- Naturally Nature - This imaginative program helps youngsters understand the real importance of dirt and begins a basic introduction to...
- 2:10 AM
- Naturally Nature - Children know that trees are fun to climb, swing and hide behind, but trees are more than nature’s place to play,...
- 2:22 AM
- Naturally Nature - Most kids love a nice warm, sunny day...but clouds are important, too. They add variety to our days and motivate us...
- 2:34 AM
- Naturally Nature - Ponds provide a spot where children can play, splash, cool down and even emerge cleaner than when they went in....
- 3:00 AM
- The Habitable Planet - The human population of our planet now exceeds 6.5 billion and is rising. Much of this growth is projected for the...
- 3:28 AM
- The Habitable Planet - We all require food, air, and water to survive, which are contaminated to some extent by man-made pollutants. Two...
- 4:00 AM
- Green Matters: What in the... - Organic living is based on the belief that food, clothing, and other things in one’s life are best chemical free....
- 4:26 AM
- Green Matters: What in the... - With a growing world population, paying close attention to the optimum use and not abuse of natural resources is a...
- 5:00 AM
- Biz Kid$ - Meet a skateboard designer, a rap music producer and a boy who made a business from worm poop.
- 5:29 AM
- Bill Nye the Science Guy: Life... - Bill becomes a real heartthrob when he talks about that not-so-wimpy organ, the heart. Valves, blood cells, and the...
- 6:30 AM
- Martha Speaks - Everyone is going to a pool party, including Alice until she becomes involved in a strange cover-up.
- 7:00 AM
- Curious George - A sudden rainstorm sweeps Steve's model papyrus boat for his history class down the sewer grate!
- 7:30 AM
- The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot... - Sandy the Sand Hopper teaches the kids the difference between natural "garbage" and man-made trash.
- 8:00 AM
- Super Why! - The Super Readers lend a hand to a baby dinosaur who is searching for his mommy.
- 8:30 AM
- Dinosaur Train - "Dinosaur Big City, Pt. 2/Dinosaur Big City, Pt. 3"
- 9:00 AM
- Sesame Street - Oscar has a plan to paint a painting that is so grouchy and horrible it will make everyone mad.
- 10:30 AM
- Sid The Science Kid - Sid uses the non-standard measurement method to measure things with shoes, blocks and even people!
- 11:00 AM
- WordWorld - When Pig is too sick to cook, his friends step in to help. Pig and Ant argue while playing a game.
- 12:00 PM
- Caillou - He imagines himself as a construction worker and builds a road through the playschool sandlot.
- 1:00 PM
- Clifford the Big Red Dog - The Howards move to Birdwell Island because Clifford is so big. Will Jetta get back her sweater?
- 2:00 PM
- Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman - When Ruff digs up a sarcophagus in his backyard, he's convinced it's an authentic Egyptian mummy.
- 2:30 PM
- The Electric Company - Marcus and Manny are contestants on a game show and Francine is the surprise guest host.
- 3:00 PM
- Arthur - A battle begins when HUGO, the interactive whiteboard, corrects Mr. Ratburn in front of the class.
- 3:30 PM
- Martha Speaks - Everyone is going to a pool party, including Alice until she becomes involved in a strange cover-up.
- 4:00 PM
- Wild Kratts - The miniaturized Kratt Brothers get swept up in a current of plankton and head to the coral reef.
- 4:30 PM
- WordGirl - WordGirl challenge Granny May in a bingo tournament. Wordgirl must defeat a snazzy new villain.
- 5:00 PM
- Curious George - A sudden rainstorm sweeps Steve's model papyrus boat for his history class down the sewer grate!
