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Fourth season of Downton brings influx of themed merchandise
Downton Abbey merchandise will accompany the Edwardian drama’s fourth-season premiere on British television next month and on PBS in January 2014, reports The Associated ...New Orleans’ WYES cancels auctions, lays off eight employees
WYES in New Orleans has laid off eight staffers and canceled its decades-old tradition of on-air auctions, reports the Times-Picayune. Station President Allan ...CPB gets five new board members, Deggans joins NPR as its new television correspondent, and ...
Eric Deggans, a media critic at the Tampa Bay Times since 1995, will sign on as NPR’s television critic and correspondent, a new position, ...Florida-based centralcast hub for pubTV stations eyes December launch
The Digital Convergence Alliance, a master control centralcast hub in Jacksonville, Fla., that will serve more than 11 pubTV stations, should begin ...Sharp staff cuts at Pacifica’s WBAI aim to save station
Pacifica has laid off the entire news department of WBAI-FM and almost all paid staff effective Monday in an effort to keep ...Head programmer looking for “PBS twist” in scripted drama on Civil War
PBS is commissioning a second scripted drama, Chief Programming Executive Beth Hoppe told Current at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour this ...PBS looking strong among younger viewers, entertainment news site reports
PBS is the only broadcast network that is “dramatically up” in viewers 18 to 34 years old, as well as up in ...Upcoming Genealogy Roadshow spotlights family histories of average Americans
A new reality series tracing the ancestral roots of Americans is coming to PBS directly from Ireland. The format for Genealogy Roadshow was created ...PBS Kids Go! goes bye-bye as colorful branding revamp rolls out to stations
PBS is dropping its PBS Kids Go! graphics and interstitial materials, as part of a revamp of the on-air branding materials surrounding ...Penn State pubcaster WPSU part of university media rebranding effort
Penn State Public Broadcasting is now Penn State Public Media, its licensee announced today. “We will continue to operate as a broadcasting service ...NewsHour promotes Ifill and Woodruff to helm show, as TV’s first female co-anchor team
The PBS NewsHour is reassigning its senior journalists to new roles by tapping Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as co-anchors and managing editors of ...Grant to Frontline will create its first desk, to oversee news collaborations
Frontline is spending $1.5 million to bolster its ability to manage its news collaborations, which are growing in number as well as importance. ...PBS becoming more topical under programmer Hoppe, AP notes
In anticipation of PBS’s appearance this week at the annual Television Critics Association Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., The Associated Press ...Crowd at WPT kids’ event gets a welcome from the White House
Michelle Obama is kicking off a special event hosted by Wisconsin Public Television this morning. Appearing in a pre-recorded video, the first lady ...Senate approves all five presidential nominees to CPB Board
President Obama's five nominees to the CPB Board were approved Thursday night by the U.S. Senate.
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