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About THIRTEEN Passport. THIRTEEN Passport is the member benefit that provides you with extended access to an on-demand library of quality public television programming, including current...
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NEW TO THIRTEEN PASSPORT. Become a member of THIRTEEN ($5...
- How to Activate Passport
How to Activate Passport. THIRTEEN Members who give $60 or...
- Support Thirteen
$13.00 . $25.00 . $30.00 . Other. ... Yes, I would like to...
- Schedule
Visit the THIRTEEN Schedule to find out when your favorite...
- National Passport Videos
THIRTEEN PBS Passport Get extended access to 1600+ episodes,...
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- What Is Passport?
- Identifying The Current Visitor
- Is The Visitor A Member of Wnet/Thirteen?
- But What If We Can’T Find The Visitor’s Member info?
- Showing Station Member-Only Video
- What Are The Results?
- What Else Will We Do with this?
- Can Other PBS Stations Do this?
As you can imagine, a lot of thought and discussion also went into the policy decisions behind Passport that aren’t really suited to a tech blog post. But for the purposes of how the system works, the reader should understand that when a PBS station broadcasts a program, there are previously negotiated rights for broadcast and streaming that usuall...
The first step of any permissions system (online or otherwise) is to find out who the visitor is by authenticating the identity who the visitor claims to be. oAuth has become the de facto standard for authenticating the identity of website visitors; with oAuth, we can delegate this authentication step to websites such as Google or Facebook and pigg...
Just because I know a person’s identity doesn’t necessarily mean I know if that person is authorized to have access to something. PBS has created a database they call the ‘Membership Vault’ where individual PBS stations can securely store lists of their members. Each station has their own list of members (one station can’t see the list of another s...
If the authenticated visitor can’t be found in the Membership Vault, there are two possibilities. Either the visitor isn’t a member, or the visitor is a member who hasn’t gone through the ‘activation’ process of entering a unique activation code into a form and creating the connection between PBS Account UID and Membership Vault record. We leave it...
Now that we have our visitor’s member information, we can show the visitor to our website or app content based on that information. The most obvious content to show is member-exclusive video! PBS runs all streaming video through a custom platform called COVE, and provides a ‘Partner player’ that allows websites to embed specific videos. Each video ...
The system launched on both PBS.org and Thirteen.org on December 15, 2015. As of mid-March, we’ve had over 17,000 members “activate”— authenticate via PBS Account and enter an activation code on either PBS.org or on Thirteen.org. Of those activated members, about 6,500 were new members who joined via “instant viewer gratification” forms on either P...
For the moment, the ‘content’ we show visitors based on their login and membership status is very basic (other than video). In the upper right corner of our site, if the visitor is logged in we show their first name, their social media ‘avatar’ from Facebook or Google (if it exists), and an icon representing their THIRTEEN Passport status — a curre...
THIRTEEN.ORG is built on WordPress, and we built as much as we could of this PBS Account integration into a portable, stand-alone WordPress plugin as we reasonably could. Our plugin is available for download from GitHub at https://github.com/tamw-wnet/pbs-passport-authenticate, and we are sharing with any PBS station that would like to use it. The ...
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Dec 15, 2015 · THIRTEEN Passport provides access to current and archival programs from both PBS and THIRTEEN and is available via Thirteen.org, PBS.org and other digital platforms. Currently, there are several hundred hours of content available through THIRTEEN Passport, and the library will continue to grow over time.
THIRTEEN is a flagship station of PBS and part of The WNET Group, media made possible by all of you. Get access to exclusive video on demand through our newest member benefit, THIRTEEN Passport. Your tax-deductible donation supports quality public television programming.
