PBS Hawaii Gets a 'Heart Transplant"

 PBS Hawaii's regular programming will be affected this week as we perform the operational equivalent of a “heart transplant” in our master control center.

It'll be complex and delicate  surgery, to create more capacity for gorgeous high-definition programming and to better manage our multiple streams of digital content.

Some TV stations may choose to sign off the air during a major undertaking like this. However, our chief of Content Delivery, Steve Komori, is going for the gusto. We''re going to keep broadcasting, even if it means we’re not able to offer all of the programs we usually do and even if it means there may be short periods of loss of signal.

Thank you in advance for your patience and  understanding.

Please expect the following changes to our programming from Monday, Oct. 26, 2009  through Friday, October 30, 2009: -

-Regular PBS national programming will begin a half-hour earlier. (For example, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW will air at 7:30 pm instead of 8 pm on Mon., Oct. 26.)

 --Locally produced shows NA MELE, LONG STORY SHORT and LEAHEY & LEAHEY will air only at 10:30 p.m. on their respective nights—Mon., Tues. and Wed.

--The live public-affairs program INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAII will not air this week.

--NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT will air at 6 pm instead of 5:30 pm.

--BBC WORLD NEWS will not be shown.

--THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW will not be available for cable viewers.

We expect to be pau with our upgrade on Fri., Oct. 30, but can’t promise we’ll be done. A familiar pidgin English expression sums up the situation: “If can, can. If no can, no can.

It's possible that our technical surgery will affect the program schedule into Sat., Oct. 31, 2009. 

These programming limitations will only last for a week, and the beautiful on-air results will last for years.

Comments

[Thomas Lim]

Why is Charlie Rose being phased out, first at midnights, now removed from cable?

[leslie]

Aloha Thomas,
Charlie Rose is back after a weeklong hiatus due to a major PBS Hawaii Master Control upgrade that affected other regular programs as well.
You asked why the show is scheduled to air at midnight. The program is not part of the PBS primetime schedule. It has a late-night TV home in many, if not most, American cities...Leslie