Author: Dru Sefton
Kantor joins American Masters; Lacy christens production house
A new executive producer is joining PBS’s biography series American Masters as the former e.p., show creator Susan Lacy, embarks on a new career ...Orman’s ‘Financial Solutions’ boosts public TV’s March pledge drive
Public television’s March pledge drive raised $46.7 million for 146 local stations, an increase of 19.3 percent from last year’s spring fundraiser.Monday roundup: Questions about WGBH income; VPT legal fees
Plus: A Boston Marathon playlist, a professor accuses PBS of bias and Laura Poitras returns to the U.S.CPB plans meetings to inform public TV execs about spectrum auction
CPB will convene two meetings about spectrum over the next two months, working to craft guidelines for public TV stations to use ...Wednesday roundup: Sesame Go app launches; Pacifica heads to court
Plus: CBC braces for huge losses, and the Fred Rogers Center honors Yo-Yo Ma.Activists turn up heat on WGBH over role of David Koch
Petitions and projections aim at the billionaire on the station's board.King departs Vermont Public Television after months of turmoil
Vermont Public Television and its president, John King, “parted ways” Wednesday, according to a statement from the VPT Board. King’s departure follows ...PBS may continue on commercial multicast channel in South Texas
PBS is talking with at least three entities interested in saving public television programming in the far southern Rio Grande Valley.PBS 2015 draft budget would raise station dues 2.5 percent
PBS’s fiscal 2015 draft budget contains a recommendation for a 2.5 percent increase in dues paid by member stations. The PBS Board, ...Women and Girls Lead goes global, extending outreach to five countries
Women and Girls Lead, a public media–based outreach and empowerment program, has evolved into a broader international effort, seeking to drive positive ...Wednesday roundup: Pew releases annual media report, advocacy group protests renewal of WGBH license
• NPR’s monthly listenership hit an eight-year high in 2013 with an average of 27.3 million listeners each month, according to the ...Monday roundup: TAL squelches PRX rumors; NPR Books boosts New Directions sales
• This American Life has yet to decide on a new distributor, contrary to Chicago media writer Bob Feder’s report over the weekend that ...After 17 years, PRI ending distribution of This American Life
Public Radio International announced today that it will end distribution of one of its biggest titles, This American Life. The Minneapolis-based PRI has offered TAL to stations ...Films for national parks’ visitor centers evolve into Civil War history series
Elizabeth McGovern, the American actress known to many Masterpiece viewers as the well-heeled Lady Cora of the hit Brit drama Downton Abbey, narrates the often ...After 18 years leading KCET, Al Jerome announces retirement
Al Jerome, the broadcasting executive who led Los Angeles public television station KCET out of PBS membership and into a partnership with ...
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