Producers’ Workshop
sponsored by the National Captioning Institute

Are you interested in finding out what kinds of content programmers really want and how they make their scheduling decisions? What are PDPs, university licensees, overlap markets and common carriage all about? Is the whole process of program selection and scheduling at the station level a mystery to you? Come find out answers to these and more mind-bending questions at the Producers’ Workshop. A panel of respected programmers will share their strategies and answer your questions about how public television schedules are put together for broadcast and across new media platforms.

Panelists include: Kevin Harris, VP & Television Station Manager, WETA Diane Lucas, Director, Programming & Outreach, UNC-TV Kent Steele, Executive Director of Broadcasting, Thirteen/WNET.org Wendy Thomas, Program Manager, KBYU The National Captioning Institute (NCI) introduced closed captioning on broadcast television over 30 years ago and is a leading provider of closed captioning, video description (DVI), and SD/HD encoding services for APT and APT producers. NCI can help producers expand the audience for their programming through English and Spanish captioning, Spanish dubbed (SAP), video description, and these same services for Internet video and DVD applications. Join us on Friday, November 13 at 5:30 p.m.