WEIU, Eastern’s public broadcasting station, is now available to stream live online.

Online streaming, which began last Wednesday, will allow the station to broadcast its entire show to its audience’s computers and phones, as well as televisions.

Viewers must provide a location to confirm that they are within WEIU’s viewership area. The station broadcasts to 22 counties, and anyone within those counties can access the livestream.

WEIU is a PBS affiliate station, so it is one of several stations nationally which have been able to access PBS’ resources to begin providing online viewing.

Ke’an Armstrong, publicity and promotions manager for WEIU, said that the new form of broadcast was implemented to make the station more accessible.

“It’s trying to meet the needs of viewers and the different ways folks are watching programs these days,” Armstrong said. “If you’re wanting to see something and you are somewhere outside of the home where your TV isn’t, but you have your mobile device in your hand, you can now stream and watch something on your mobile device on our schedule that’s live at that point in time that would have been something you watch at home on your TV.”

The livestream is available 24/7 at https://www.weiu.net .

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