Programs/Content
Podcast about Georgia’s Forsyth County explores legacy of town’s racist history
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“1912,” a podcast from the Atlanta History Center and WABE, traces descendants of Black people who fled racist mobs and night riders.
Programs/Content
Maine Public, ‘Frontline’ team up for three-pronged project about Lewiston shooting
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“Breakdown” explores whether the incident that took 18 lives in 2023 could have been prevented.
Programs/Content
South Carolina ETV reaches beyond state’s borders with ‘Southern Songwriters’
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The locally produced and funded series is finding a home on stations nationwide.
Programs/Content
Sesame Workshop music videos widen PBS Kids’ focus on civics
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“Together We Can” sets lessons on civic responsibility, rules and the Constitution to song.
Classical music
Three years in, the Recording Inclusivity Initiative is still fighting to diversify classical radio
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All Classical Radio’s marquee project has encountered a few hiccups, but it’s pushing forward — and expanding.
Programs/Content
LAist’s ‘Inheriting’ podcast aims to shed light on Asian American and Pacific Islander history and community
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The show digs in with seven families to show how past traumas can trickle down through generations.
Programs/Content
With a new documentary, ‘Reading Rainbow’ looks back
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In “Butterfly in the Sky,” the show’s host and creators tell the story of one of public television’s most beloved children’s programs.
Programs/Content
‘Tiny Time Travel’ shorts help kids learn emotional literacy
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The new PBS Kids series is a literacy show “about different ways to communicate … and understanding peoples’ points of view,” says creator Tim McKeon.
System/Policy
Los Angeles stations unify branding as PBS SoCal
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Survey research confirmed that recasting KCET as PBS SoCal Plus would be a “slam dunk” for building digital viewership.
Programs/Content
New streaming sitcom ‘In the Know’ digs for the funny in public radio
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From Zach Woods and Mike Judge, the stop-action animated show is chock full of Terry Gross cracks and Ken Burns cameos.
Programs/Content
With return of ‘Lost Notes,’ KCRW reinvests in limited-run podcasts
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The next season looks at L.A. as a “prismatic reflection point” in artists’ development, says producer Myke Dodge Weiskopf.
Programs/Content
‘Odd Squad’ abroad: Hit PBS Kids series expands to UK
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Set in Britain and featuring a new cast, the fourth season will bring new twists on oddness and lessons in “maths.”
Programs/Content
Maryland Public Television builds bigger profile for HBCU Week
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A regional showcase of special programming is growing through CPB-backed partnerships with World and three stations.
Programs/Content
With ‘Oldies Show,’ TJ Lubinsky aims to tell stories behind hit songs of yesteryear
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The multi-episode series, slated to launch in 2024, is designed to air in the run-up to public TV’s pledge season.
Programs/Content
Science behind ‘creature powers’ gives ‘Wild Kratts’ many angles for exploring the lives of animals
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With an all-new season of TV episodes and upcoming tour of live shows, Martin and Chris Kratt give kids new ways to experience the natural world.
Featured in Category
WHYY dives into original children’s programming with two new offerings
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“Albie’s Elevator” and “The Infinite Art Hunt” aim to reach kids ages 2 to 8.
Programs/Content
Documentary tells story of Fanny, an unsung all-girl band that’s still rocking after 50 years
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Airing Monday on PBS, “Fanny: The Right to Rock” examines what it meant to be women — some of whom were queer and/or Filipino-American — struggling for respect at a time when a girl with a guitar was still considered a novelty.
Programs/Content
WNYC’s ‘NYC Now’ podcast offers three daily doses of local news
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“Our newsroom is creating all this work, and it didn’t make sense that we weren’t actually taking some of that work and putting it up in the podcast realm,” says Ave Carrillo, WNYC’s EP of local podcasts.
People
How a composer’s accidental career builds on the legacy of ‘Sesame Street’
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“I just never thought this was my thing and so I sort of fell into it,” says music director Bill Sherman. “But now I just love it.”
Programs/Content
How ‘Marie Antoinette’ sought humanity, humility inside Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors
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The new show’s star says it’s “certainly no dusty period drama.”