WNYE was established in 1938 and broadcasts an eclectic mix of educational and instructional programming.

The delivery of instructional programming should be upgraded and greater use should be made of tools like new computer-interactive technologies.

ETV provides expert production and technical delivery services to support instructional programming.

Public broadcasting now distributes more than 1,500 hours of instructional programming a year.

The Learning Channel, which specializes in instructional programming, now reaches 40 million cable subscribers.

The board would retain the station licenses and would require a certain amount of instructional programming, mostly linked to the Internet, board officials said.

WNSB first went on the air in on February 22, 1980, broadcasting only 5 hours per day of mostly instructional programming.

Of its expenses, 71 percent goes to instructional programming.

Limited hours of operation in the early years focused primarily on instructional programming for use in Arkansas classrooms.

Public television has been distributing instructional programming and materials to schools for more than 25 years.