Author: Marah Eakin
New documentary pays tribute to late, great KUT/KUTX personality John Aielli
Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience hits digital services this month.PBS Kids gets into gameplay video with ‘Odd Squad Gaming Unit’
The new series of YouTube shorts for 5- to 8-year-olds aims to “make things that kids will want to tell their best ...New documentary invites fans to come and re-meet ‘The Letter People’
For Gen Xers, memories of the '70s-era kids' show spark "an almost ridiculous level of excitement,” says filmmaker Jason Collum.How ‘Weathered’ and PBS SoCal teamed up to examine spread of LA wildfires
With footage shot in 8K resolution, “Inside The LA Firestorm” aims to help viewers protect themselves and their homes from the next ...‘Division Street Revisited’ introduces Studs Terkel to the podcast generation
Chicago journalists Melissa Harris and Mary Schmich teamed up to discover what happened to people who spoke to Terkel of their hopes ...New preschool series aims to teach coding skills
“Mia & Codie,” a public TV show from the creator of “WordWorld,” combines computational thinking and socioemotional learning.Podcast about Georgia’s Forsyth County explores legacy of town’s racist history
“1912,” a podcast from the Atlanta History Center and WABE, traces descendants of Black people who fled racist mobs and night riders. ...Maine Public, ‘Frontline’ team up for three-pronged project about Lewiston shooting
"Breakdown" explores whether the incident that took 18 lives in 2023 could have been prevented.South Carolina ETV reaches beyond state’s borders with ‘Southern Songwriters’
The locally produced and funded series is finding a home on stations nationwide.Sesame Workshop music videos widen PBS Kids’ focus on civics
“Together We Can” sets lessons on civic responsibility, rules and the Constitution to song.Three years in, the Recording Inclusivity Initiative is still fighting to diversify classical radio
All Classical Radio’s marquee project has encountered a few hiccups, but it’s pushing forward — and expanding.LAist’s ‘Inheriting’ podcast aims to shed light on Asian American and Pacific Islander history and ...
The show digs in with seven families to show how past traumas can trickle down through generations.With a new documentary, ‘Reading Rainbow’ looks back
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.‘Tiny Time Travel’ shorts help kids learn emotional literacy
The new PBS Kids series is a literacy show “about different ways to communicate ... and understanding peoples’ points of view,” says ...Los Angeles stations unify branding as PBS SoCal
Survey research confirmed that recasting KCET as PBS SoCal Plus would be a “slam dunk” for building digital viewership.
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