Ken Burns

Suddenly I had to go, you know what, it's okay.

I'm trading hundreds or maybe thousands of viewers for millions of viewers on a smaller screen, and they're not watching it together, but they're having an experience, and I can do something over time.

I can do a Civil War series, and it can be 11 1⁄2, 12 hours, and get deep, deep into—

that experience, or Vietnam, which is 18 hours, 10 episodes, or country music, the national parks, jazz, baseball.

I mean, there are like 40 different things.

American Buffalo, most recently, and Leonardo da Vinci, the first non-American topic, or just finishing the American Revolution.

It's just, it was right for me.

It was right for me.

And I like the fact that they have, BBS,

has one foot in the marketplace and the other out.

You know, that foot is tentatively there.

And so it also reaches all parts of the country.

It's the largest network in the country.

It's 330 stations.

And they really serve rural stations mostly.

It's not this Upper West Side, Knob Hill, snobby kind of thing.

It's Homeland Security and crop reports and weather and

continuing education and classroom of the air as well as children's programming and what I think is a pretty damn good prime time schedule.

You know, so it works in the context of all of America, not just some of America.

I think so.