The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA)
distributes SmallBusinessSchool to public television which includes
all PBS-member stations throughout the USA and her territories.
The first season (13 episodes per season) began in January 2001.
The very first season of episodes with NETA began in September 1994.

Every Saturday at 4:30 PM, NETA feeds another episode of the show.

NETA is a program acquisition and distribution services group for her member stations. There are member stations and program subscribers in all 50 states, plus Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. NETA serves these public television stations and their educational affiliates by connecting people with ideas and by delivering high-quality educational programming and other services that help their member stations to meet their educational missions.

Originally organized in 1967 as a regional syndicator of programming (SECA), NETA is responsible for developing educational services such as the Satellite Educational Resources Consortium (SERC) project. It also operates the National ITV Satellite Schedule (NISS) and holds fiduciary and secretariat responsibilities for OSBE and PBMA. Among the NETA Educational Resources is the Educational Program Service (EPS).

Want to know more about this alphabet-soup -- SERC, EPS, NISS, OSBE and PBMA -- of organizations? You can find out in Current's acronym directory, a program of National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) program, Publishing Committee, Washington, D.C. (T:202.463.7055).

National Educational Telecommunications Association
P.O. Box 50,008
Columbia, SC 29250 T:803.799.5517
URL: http://www.netaonline.org/
President: Skip Hinton

PS: Here's the story behind the story:

We've been at it non-stop. The first four seasons were as Small Business Today
(1994-95). Then we did 22 seasons as Small Business 2000 (1995 to 2000).
NETA began feeding SmallBusinessSchool on January 6, 2001.

So, as of January 2007, we are in our 50th season of television through NETA!

When Small Business 2000 began in September 1995 we never imagined
we would still be at it four years later. Here it is now six more years and we are get close!

The very first version of the show, Small Business Today, only ran for four seasons because
the titled sounded too much like a date-stamped news show. We began that production
in the first week of September 1994 and it ran through the end of August 1995.

Of course, Small Business 2000 did not sound quite right in the year 2001 so we rebranded on more time!