Tampa Bay Area Viewers Can Now Access WEDU Content Via Roku

TAMPA, Fla. - May 8, 2013 - PRLog -- WEDU, West Central Florida’s primary PBS station, announced today that videos from favorite PBS and PBS KIDS programs such as AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, FRONTLINE, MASTERPIECE, NATURE, NOVA, SUPER WHY!, CURIOUS GEORGE and DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD, as well as local favorites such as Florida This Week, Suncoast Business Forum, Up Close with Cathy Unruh, and WEDU ArtsPlus, are now available to consumers via the Roku® streaming platform.

Roku users will access and personalize their PBS experiences by choosing their favorite local station and sharing their email address. This will provide viewers with content from PBS and WEDU, anytime they want, while also giving WEDU a way to connect with them.

“We are excited to offer WEDU’s quality local programs alongside PBS national programming. Through Roku, WEDU is giving viewers yet another way to access 1000’s of hours of WEDU’s local content, making it easy for viewers to be in control of how they watch their favorite WEDU and PBS programs,” said Susan Howarth, WEDU President and CEO.

In addition to national and local PBS programming, viewers can access video from PBS Digital Studios, a network of short web-original videos from PBS.

"Our relationship with Roku is an important next step in our strategy to make PBS content available through a variety of platforms, while maintaining the connection between the viewer and their local station,” said Jason Seiken, PBS SVP and GM, Digital. “We are happy that this partnership with Roku will deliver consumers both national PBS and PBS KIDS programs, as well as favorite video from their local PBS station, all on demand.“