PBS has just announced the own app for iPhone as well as iPod touch, as well as from the looks of it, it’s a doozy (if you’re super into PBS, that is). That’s right, a free PBS app will allow you to watch full-length PBS productions on your device — together with the renowned headlines programs like FRONTLINE as well as a PBS Newshour. You won’t be means to watch all which PBS offers just nonetheless, though a app additionally has a built-in calendar that should be super useful if you occur to makeup your complete life around PBS programming similar to we know some of our zealous readers do. PBS developed the app with help from Bottle Rocket Apps, as well as adds this to its alternative apps currently available, a Antiques Roadshow diversion app as well as the PBS for iPad app. This one’s available right this second in iTunes and it’s free. Full press recover is after a mangle.

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Show full PR textPBS Launches Free Full-Length Video App for iPhone as well as iPod touch and Antiques Roadshow Game App

Television Critics Association Press Tour, Pasadena, CA – January 8, 2011 –

PBS voiced today a App Store entrance of the PBS App for iPhone as well as iPod hold, featuring more than 300 hours of free video, including full-length programs. Also rising currently, a PBS Antiques Roadshow diversion app, available for a iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, lets players probably collect, value as well as bid on real antiques with new collectibles from dissimilar cities added continually.

“With the outrageous library from nearly 360 member stations as well as 1500 open media producers, PBS is delivering the abounding on-demand knowledge as well as is right away a single of the initial broadcasters to move full-length video to the iPhone,” said Jason Seiken, SVP, PBS Interactive, Product Development and Innovation. “There has been augmenting demand for the calm on other platforms – a PBS video player averages 22 mins viewing time per module among audiences 18+ and ranks 19th among video sites, with some-more than 104 million streams. In addition, PBSKIDS.org is a #1 children’s video site in streams and unique users, according to comScore.”
The PBS App for the iPhone and iPod hold facilities some-more than 300 hours of gratis video, including full-length programming from FRONTLINE, PBS Newshour, and others, as good as scheduling details, previews, as well as the brand new tune-in sign calendar which can be synced with iCal. This app was grown by PBS and Bottle Rocket Apps and comes on a heels of the already successful PBS App for iPad.

Based on the popular television array, a Antiques Roadshow App brings out the consultant collector as well as appraiser in every Roadshow air blower. Dozens of singular diversion challenges let players pickup as well as store hundreds of virtual antiques formed upon images of genuine objects as well as tangible values. Players value and sense about each item’s history as well as worth. Expert players can clear a gratis play mode and dip up extra rare equipment for their treasure chest.
“Antiques Roadshow stays the outrageous hit on-air, as well as local events pull vast crowds. The series is part journey, partial story as well as part treasure track, and right away a app takes it to another level, allowing players to turn antiques dealers-in-training,” said Marsha Bemko, Executive Producer, Antiques Roadshow. “No more watchful in line to get in. We’ve postulated VIP access passes to everyone to indulge their inner appraiser.”

The PBS App is accessible for gratis from a App Store on iPad, iPhone as well as iPod touch, or during www.itunes.com/appstore.

The Antiques Roadshow App is available for $2.99 from the App Store on iPad, iPhone as well as iPod touch, or during www.itunes.com/appstore.

About PBS
PBS, with its scarcely 360 member stations, offers all Americans – from each travel of life – a event to explore new ideas and brand new worlds by television and online calm. Each month, PBS reaches 117 million people through radio and 20 million people online, mouth-watering them to experience a worlds of scholarship, history, nature and public affairs; to hear diverse viewpoints; as well as to take front row seats to world-class play and performances. PBS’ broad array of programs has been consistently respected by the industry’s most desired endowment competitions. Teachers of children from pre-K through 12thgrade spin to PBS for digital calm as well as services that assistance bring classroom lessons to life. PBS’ premier children’s TV programming and the website, pbskids.org, are parents’ as well as teachers’ most trusted partners in moving and nurturing oddity and love of guidance in young kids. More report about PBS is accessible during www.pbs.org, a single of the leading dot-org websites on a Internet.

About Antiques Roadshow
Part journey, part history doctrine, as well as part value track, eight-time Emmy-nominated Antiques Roadshow outlines the fifteenth deteriorate in 2011. PBS’s highest-rated array, Roadshow is seen by some-more than 9 million viewers any week. In any hour-long Roadshow episode, specialists from a country’s heading auction houses as well as eccentric dealers from across a republic offer gratis appraisals of antiques and collectibles. Host Mark L. Walberg welcomes back viewers to join the tour by America’s attics as well as basements, starting Monday, January 3, 2011 at 8/7C upon PBS.

About Bottle Rocket Apps
Bottle Rocket Apps (www.bottlerocketapps.com) is the full-service mobile app growth firm, focused upon formulating mission-critical, reward mark practice on the Apple iPhone and iPad and upon Android inclination. The company’s apps have won numerous industry accolades for innovative as well as user-centered design, as well as frequently appear during a tip of their categories on the iTunes App Store. The Bottle Rocket team of senior strategists, architects, developers as well as artists work their sorcery from a company’s offices in Dallas, Texas.

Via Engadget