Two schedules now feature British comedies on Saturday nights and a third has expanded its block of Britcoms. Back at his former station, KERA in Dallas, Britcom blocks were a successful feature of weekend nights. Collaboration has also allowed Seymour to begin negotiating lower prices for group buys of programs from PBS Select, and he suspects that other discounts will be possible where four or more stations buy the same programs. Seymour negotiates service deals with each station, which must specify its audience goals and what it will spend on programming to reach those goals. Righter is happy with the cooperation she's gotten across Florida from station salespeople, a human breed known for being an eensy bit territorial.
More statewide contracts are pending.
She's established procedures and forms for multimarket sales within Florida, and is now beginning to come across potential multimarket deals that could reach into other states if she had arrangements with stations there. To Current 's home page Current Briefing on projects designed to make public broadcasting more efficient and self-supporting.