WATERTOWN, NY (January 28, 2025) – WPBS-TV is pleased to announce the expansion of its livestreaming services, now available to viewers throughout the Northern New York region. Starting in May 2024, WPBS broadened its livestream offerings beyond the main WPBS-TV channel to include FNX (First Nations Experience), WORLD Channel, and NHK World Japan. Most recently, in January 2025, Create TV was added as the newest subchannel livestream, further enriching the content available to local audiences. Whether at home or on the go, viewers can now access a wide range of content anytime, anywhere. Visit wpbstv.org and click “WATCH LIVE” to start livestreaming today.
These new livestreams will be available 24/7 across all digital platforms, including web, mobile, and OTT apps, offering even more ways for residents of the North Country to enjoy high-quality, diverse programming, including:
WPBS-TV: Local and national PBS programming, including news, drama, children’s shows, documentaries, and more.
FNX (First Nations Experience): A channel dedicated to Native American culture, offering educational and entertaining programming from a Native perspective.
WORLD Channel: A channel focused on bringing viewers compelling documentaries, current affairs, and global programming from PBS and public television partners.
Create TV: A channel centered on DIY, lifestyle, and how-to programming, covering food, travel, home & garden, fitness, arts & crafts, and more.
NHK World Japan: The Japanese international broadcasting channel, providing a mix of news, culture, entertainment, and information directly from Japan.
About WORLD CHANNEL
While airing news and documentaries from PBS, WORLD’s focus is on its original content, offering a national platform to makers examining issues too often ignored by mainstream media. WORLD’s emerging and master filmmakers spotlight a diversity of voices, telling stories not heard elsewhere. WORLD also showcases films and programs from filmmakers, public media stations and partners that highlight critical issues like education, healthcare, the environment and politics.
In a world filled with noise, WORLD is here to break through – the barriers, the stereotypes, the outmoded expectations — what we thought we knew about each other and life around us. WORLD, with its passion for elevating storytelling, offers hope and promise by presenting new ideas, voices and solutions outside of the mainstream. From award-winning documentaries on America ReFramed, Doc World and Local, USA to insightful tellers on Stories from the Stage, WORLD illustrates the range, complexity and resilience of humanity, and demonstrates that change is possible. At this moment, it’s time for WORLD to break through. Carried by 194 partner stations in markets representing 77% of US TV households, WORLD can also be experienced on social and video platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok, YouTube and the PBS app.
About CREATE TV
Often called “do-it-yourself” or DIY, the program genres seen on Create® TV include viewers’ favorite public television series and specials on food, travel, home & garden, arts & crafts, fitness and other lifestyle interests. The programs seen on Create come from American Public Television, The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and a handful of local public television stations across the country. Create TV was launched in 2006 to serve viewers’ increasing interest in these DIY programs. Create was designed for around-the-clock* broadcast of the most popular lifestyle and how-to programming seen on public television — where lifestyle programming got its start!
Create reaches nearly 84% of US television households, with 30 million viewers annually nationwide. The channel is produced and distributed by APT, The WNET Group New York and GBH Boston in association with NETA and PBS. On the Create YouTube channel you’ll find hundreds of videos from Create’s hosts featuring the best in public television’s programs about cooking, travel, home improvement, gardening and arts & crafts. Learn more at: https://createtv.com/
About FNX (First Nations Experience)
First Nations Experience Television, or FNX, is an Indigenous media source that educates and empowers the community through greater engagement, awareness and understanding of Indigenous cultures and peoples. Its mission is to prove the global audience with authentic Native American and World Indigenous educational content that informs, inspires and entertains. FNX | First Nations Experience is the first and only national broadcast television network in the U.S. exclusively devoted to Native American and World Indigenous content.
Through Native-produced and themed documentaries, dramatic series, nature, cooking, gardening, children’s, and arts programming, FNX strives to accurately illustrate the lives and cultures of Native people around the world. Created as a shared vision between Founding Partners, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and the San Bernardino Community College District, FNX is owned by and originates from the studios of KVCR-PBS San Bernardino. FNX began terrestrial broadcast in the Los Angeles area on September 25, 2011, and went national on November 1, 2014, via the Public Television Interconnect System (PBS satellite AMC – 21 Channel SD08), making the network available to PBS affiliates, community and tribal stations, and cable television service providers across the country. FNX is working diligently to obtain channel carriage in as many communities as possible across the country. Learn more at www.fnx.org
About NHK WORLD-JAPAN
NHK WORLD-JAPAN is the English-language international service of Japan’s sole public broadcaster, NHK. The NHK WORLD-JAPAN channel features a diverse blend of programming featuring hourly live international news from Tokyo and over 30 news bureaus around the world, including New York City; along with programs on culture, food, travel, science, history, technology, and sports plus select dramas with a Japanese and Asian perspective. Sports fans will now be able to stream Grand Sumo Highlights and follow the grand tournaments throughout the year.
Japan International Broadcasting Inc. (JIB), a subsidiary of NHK, is responsible for the worldwide distribution of the HD English language news/lifestyle channel “NHK WORLD-JAPAN,” as well as the HD Japanese language channel “NHK WORLD PREMIUM.” Currently, the two channels are broadcast around the world on three international satellites in their respective markets and reach households, hotels, and others via DTH, cable, IPTV, and terrestrial broadcast. The NHK WORLD-JAPAN channel is available via broadcast in 14 major markets across the U.S. and many popular programs air on public TV channels around the country, including Dining with Chef, Journeys in Japan, Asia Insight, Cycle Around Japan Highlights, and Medical Frontiers. Learn more at https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/.
About WPBS
WPBS is a PBS station serving approximately 600,000 households throughout Northern New York and Eastern Ontario via cable, satellite, Internet and over-the-air distribution. WPBS is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and inspire diverse communities with exceptional and trusted content across multiple platforms. Its vision is to be the premier provider of relevant public service media that instills wonder and curiosity across generations and cultures. More information about WPBS, including a full channel listing, is available at wpbstv.org, or by following WPBS on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Download the free WPBS Mobile App to follow WPBS on the go.
