The world has changed a lot since 1969. Many homes don't even have network television anymore.

You're right. PBS Digital Studios has a fantastic Youtube presence. One of my favorite YT channels is PBS Spacetime, which gives a somewhat mathmatically rigorous treatment on cosmology/astrophysics. It's so much better than anything on the Science or Discovery channel. I learned about the coolest phenomenon ever: a KugelBlitz (a hypothetical type of black hole formed from light), overtaking quasars as my fave astronomical curiosity.

They also have PBS Infinite which is a maths series. I learned what a random walk is today.

I urge any and every one to check out their various Youtube channels. It truly is a travesty that we have extra money to spend on the F-35 and other overpriced, unnecessary military expenditures, but the pittance we give to PBS is being cut.

PBS news hour has 390k subs on youtube and does 50k views on their nightly 50min. Compared to other news networks this is not too shabby. So yeah don't worry they have many other ways of getting to viewers.

> The world has changed a lot since 1969. Many homes don't even have network television anymore.

All homes with TVs that receive broadcast, cable, or satellite TV have network television.

I think you probably meant broadcast/OTA television, in which case a survey from 2016 shows that 17% of U.S. TV households rely on "broadcast-only" television reception, and that was an increase from the previous year.

However, that number is disproportionately higher in poor, Black, and Hispanic households. For example, it jumps to 26% for households earning less than $30K/year.

I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people getting OTA broadcasting will begin increasing.

I don't know anyone my age that doesn't watch mostly streamed content, but we all have digital antennas for local broadcast and the important live events.

It is increasing, a lot. There was a recent study that had OTA using households increase from 9% in 2013 to 15% in 2016. Or as one headline put it "almost double".

Added: Here are some numbers not from memory:

* http://www.ooyala.com/videomind/blog/ota-usage-growing-more-...

Added2: OK I found my numbers, which were slightly off. Fixed...

* http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170127/tv-antenna-ri...

I literally know no one who watches ota. I tried for a while but was quickly confronted with ota quality programming (or lack thereof). The digital antenna is in a box somewhere.

PBS has a streaming channel on my Roku...

I get about 10 PBS channels using a $30 antenna...