Author: Dru Sefton
KCETLink selects former ABC Family executive as new president
Michael Riley, a former head of ABC Family, is the new president of Los Angeles-based KCETLink, the independent public media station and ...New York’s WNET delays plans to move documentary showcases out of primetime
New York’s WNET is reversing its decision — at least temporarily — to shift independent documentaries from primetime on its main channel ...New York’s WNET to pull documentary showcases from Monday nights on main channel
The station later delayed its plans.Frontline, NPR among public media winners of 2015 duPont-Columbia Awards
Recipients include Henry Louis Gates's six-part history The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.Aguilar crosses the pond, Marketplace reporter joins KQED, and other comings and goings in public media
ITVS’s Claire Aguilar is departing to help “nurture young filmmakers” at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in England.FCC requests comments on details of spectrum auction rules
After hearing statements of dissent from its two Republican commissioners, the FCC approved on a party-line vote Wednesday the release of a ...Kartemquin Films co-founder Jerry Blumenthal dies at 78
Jerry Blumenthal, a founding partner of Chicago documentary house Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters), died Nov. 13 after battling cancer. He was 78. ...Frontline creates cross-platform investigative unit with help from Ford Foundation
Frontline has hired two investigative reporters and promoted a digital specialist to create its first desk producing original investigative journalism across platforms. The ...APT’s Create and World gain carriage, audience
Vme is not the only public TV multicast channel that’s gaining traction with viewers. Create and World, channels featuring how-to shows and ...Vme plants flag for ‘quality’ Spanish-language TV
The Spanish-language multichannel for public TV is in the midst of a revamp that includes station outreach, such as chef Hamlet Garcia's ...Pubcasters object to U.S. Forest Service proposal for wilderness filming permits
Six public broadcasting organizations filed joint comments Wednesday with the U.S. Forest Service protesting proposed special-use permits and fees for still photography and ...Public media efforts get backing from latest NEA grants
Seven organizations associated with public media are among 1,116 grantees announced Tuesday by the National Endowment for the Arts for funding that ...Tuesday roundup: Orman leaves CNBC, Burns pops up in Interstellar
Plus: Sesame Workshop's SVOD strategy, and a new website from Fred Rogers Co.New York Times hires Kinsey Wilson, 14 pubTV execs work on CSGs, and other comings and goings ...
In February, Kinsey Wilson will move into a newly created position at the Times, editor for innovation and strategy.John McKinley dies at 66; former PBS staffer recalled by friends as iconoclast
John McKinley, an early employee of PBS who went on to produce a TV version of Mountain Stage, died of congestive heart failure Nov. ...
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