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Changes At Thirteen.org

May 15th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

In the month since the redesign of Thirteen.org, we have been listening carefully to the many comments and suggestions we have received about our new look. We’re happy to report that most of you like the new Thirteen.org. But most is not enough! Therefore, we are pleased to announce the first round of changes and improvements in response to your feedback.

We know that many of you have come to depend on Thirteen’s website to plan your weekly television viewing. We have expanded the home page schedule area to give you a better snapshot of that night’s schedule.

Just below the schedule, we have created a number of new links to take you directly to our latest online features, such as SundayArts, Reel13, and Inside Thirteen, as well as permanent links to Kids’ and Education resources.

The biggest change concerns the various “channel” blogs (Arts & Culture, News & Public Affairs, etc.). At the top of each channel blog, you will now find a featured program section to help you identify what’s new and noteworthy, in addition to direct links to your favorite broadcast programs.

These changes are the result of the extremely useful feedback you submitted. So please keep it coming, letting us know what works, what doesn’t, and how you’d like to see it improved! Send feedback

-Dan Goldman
Exec. Director, Thirteen.org

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COMMENTS

3 comments

5/16/08 :: 10:16 am
Zelig Schrager Says:

I continue to find your schedules of TV programs to be very frustrating, if not impossible to use. For example, I cannot find a listing of dates and hours for the events of Great Performances.For example, I am trying to find the next airing of “The Last Emperor,” which you feature….but clicking on that feature gives some description but no dates/times. I suspect there are no further dates/times, so why advertise this opera?

5/18/08 :: 11:15 pm
E Ryan Says:

Let me start by saying I watch WNET every day and I appreciate the amazing productions and the creative efforts that go into them.
But….
I also find the new schedule difficult to navigate. Most often am looking for the most basic information such as a complete list of the air dates/times for a series or the list or dates a single show will be re-broadcast, and like as not I am sent to a description or back to today’s schedule, or back to the series webpage. I am perfectly competent at navigating websites but your particular structure of schedules is not helpful.
I do appreciate seeing clips of the shows and the ‘now playing’ on the main page, I love the wealth of information provided on each individual page for each series or program, and I think it’s wonderful that I can see clips of programs and in some instances watch entire segments online, but why is it so hard to get a text-based list of the air dates for a show?!
I feel that perhaps in your enthusiasm to take advantage of the wonderful multimedia qualities of the web you have neglected the basics.
You should take a look at the national PBS site - they have a fairly easy to navigate structure for air dates.
Thank you.

5/19/08 :: 12:05 pm
Dan Goldman Says:

Thank you both very much for the comments. Rest assured, we have not forgotten about the basics! The most direct way to see a list of air dates is by doing a search. You can click on the “schedule” tab (just below and to the right of the Thirteen logo at the top of the page), or at the top of the schedule box on the home page (just below the video player). Then type, say, Great Performances, and you will see a list of upcoming air dates.