Verizon, PBS and APTS may announce a TV pact

Subscription video service in US.

A pact between Verizon Communication and public television programming providers may be announced on Friday, reports Reuters. The pact will be to provide public television via its new subscription video offering. Verizon Communications is the number two telephone services provider in the United States.

The majority of public television programming will be carried out by Verizon. It includes multicast services or when when multiple channels are broadcast digitally over the airwaves using new technology, reports Reuters. 

Reuters also reports that the executives of Verizon, the Public Broadcasting Service and the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) will make the official announcement on Friday in a press conference, according to Reuters.

APTS had made a deal with cable providers in order to allow them to have as much as four channels of noncommercial programming from each public station in a given market. The deal was reached in 2005, reports Reuters.

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