Author: Dru Sefton
Four emergency requests from NewsHour bring $3 million from PBS to help pay bills
Executives from MacNeil/Lehrer Productions have asked PBS officials for “emergency $1 million infusions so they could pay the NewsHour bills” four times in ...WXXI’s web-first series on sculpture project captures drama of artistic process
In a first for the station, Rochester’s WXXI has premiered a series on the Web, following sculptor Albert Paley as he creates ...Stations fear exclusion from show production as PBS shifts strategy
When PBS unveiled its fall slate of primetime programs during its recent conference in Miami Beach, Fla., in May, many of the ...Master-control alliance in Florida gets $7 million from CPB
The Digital Convergence Alliance, a single master-control facility in Florida ramping up to serve public television stations in four states with customized ...NewsHour closing two offices, dropping 10 positions, according to internal memo
PBS NewsHour is shutting offices in Denver and San Francisco and eliminating several positions at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., Executive Producer Linda Winslow ...Ford Foundation hires Mertes, Howland and Marshall sign on at NETA Business Center, and more ...
Cara Mertes, the incoming head of the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, previously served as executive director of American Documentary Inc., a job that ...Fred Rogers’ production company moves out of WQED
The Fred Rogers Co., the production company that continues to create new PBS Kids series a decade after the death of its ...Andrew Golis departing Frontline, bound for Atlantic
Andrew Golis, director of digital media/senior editor at Frontline, is leaving to join Atlantic Media, home to Atlantic magazine, as “entrepreneur in residence,” Golis ...Frontline teams up with Univision for investigative doc debut
For the first time, Frontline is sharing a film premiere with another American broadcaster, according to the New York Times. On June 25, PBS’s investigative ...WNET’s Sacred project to globally crowdsource religious topics for one year
WNET President Emeritus Bill Baker is spearheading a unique internationally crowdsourced public television project documenting a year of spiritual and religious life ...President’s fourth nominee to CPB Board is former WGBH newsman
President Barack Obama has nominated Howard Husock, a former producer, director and reporter at WGBH, to serve on the CPB Board of ...Martha Speaks author suing WGBH for portion of viewer contributions
Susan Meddaugh, the author and illustrator of the Martha Speaks books that inspired the popular PBS Kids show, is suing WGBH for ...Houston Public Media fires director of operations and communications head
The ongoing shakeup at Houston Public Media continues, with the termination of two more employees, reports Culture Map Houston. Gone are Debra ...PBS buys more of what works in primetime
As public television’s chief program exec and top producers unveiled highlights of the fall 2013 primetime schedule at the PBS Annual Meeting ...WXXI ends 54-year run of Assignment: The World due to lack of funding
Assignment: The World, the longest-running social-studies instructional TV program in the country, broadcast its last episode May 23. WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., which produced ...
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