Author: Current Staff
Why & How: ‘Unnatural Causes’
In this Q&A, content creators talk with Current about why they decided to pursue a project and how they produced it. What: Unnatural Causes: Is ...Return of the Pythons: their PBS premiere
Bring out your dead, practice your silly walks, and steel yourselves for something completely different, yet strangely familiar. PBS is launching a ...CPB to replace Cox as president
CPB announced Friday it will replace President Kathleen Cox, its president for 10 months. She had been predecessor Robert Coonrod’s No. 2 executive ...Cincinnati’s WGUC acquires seven-station X-Star Network
WGUC will buy another Cincinnati public radio operation, WVXU and six affiliated repeater stations, from Xavier University. The sale price of $15 ...Public broadcasting system revenues, 1982–2003
The system’s revenues passed $2 billion late in the 1990s and $2.3 billion during fiscal year 2003, the latest year for which ...PBS loses biggest underwriter as it considers 30-second credits
ExxonMobil will stop underwriting Masterpiece Theatre after spring 2004, the oil company announced Dec. 13. It has spent more than $250 million on MT and ...Pubcasting on the Web, three years later
PBS Online is celebrating its third anniversary this week with a doubled staff, an expanded mission, an upgraded teachers’ service that opens next month, ...Public TV defender, visionary Ralph Rogers dies in Dallas
Ralph B. Rogers, the Dallas businessman who re-founded and perhaps saved PBS in the early 1970s, died Nov. 4 after a long ...Gingrich wants to ‘zero-out’ federal funding to CPB
House Speaker-designate Newt Gingrich said on his weekly cable TV show last week that he wants to “zero-out” CPB funding this year. ...The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Enacted less than 10 months after the report of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Broadcasting, this law initiates federal aid to the ...Educational Television Progress Report, Sen. Warren Magnuson, 1965
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, laid out the case for federal aid to public broadcasting in ...
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