I had no idea that there were Public Broadcasting Stations that aired church services and such things. I suppose this is because I don’t live in Alabama or someplace.<\/p>\n
Anyway, PBS has done (mostly) the right thing by baning this practice.
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The Public Broadcasting Service agreed yesterday to ban its member stations from airing new religious TV programs, but permitted the handful of stations that already carry “sectarian” shows to continue doing so.<\/p>\n
The vote by PBS’s board was a compromise from a proposed ban on all religious programming. Such a ban would have forced a few stations around the country to give up their PBS affiliation if they continued to broadcast local church services and religious lectures.<\/p>\n
Until now, PBS stations have been required to present programming that is noncommercial, nonpartisan and nonsectarian. But the definition of “nonsectarian” programming was always loosely interpreted, and the rule had never been strictly enforced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n