WASHINGTON, DC - The board of the Public Broadcasting Service says the handful of PBS stations that carry religious services or devotionals can continue showing them, but cannot add new programs defined as sectarian -- that is, "placing one religion above all others."
That compromise preserves the status of some public television stations whose membership was jeopardized under a PBS policy review that could have banned such programs. The decision allows Brigham Young University's KBYU to keep broadcasting Mormon devotionals. Public TV stations owned by Catholic groups in New Orleans and Harlingen, Texas, also will be able to continue their existing religious broadcasts while maintaining their PBS affiliation.
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