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POV captures five of PBS’s nine news and documentary Emmys
PBS topped all the other broadcast networks, as runners-up ABC and CBS each won seven. POV’s “Last Train Home,” a film about Chinese ...Great Expectations exceeds expectations by winning four of PBS’s 11 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys
As a Masterpiece production competing against other miniseries, movies and specials, Great Expectations received Emmys for outstanding achievement in costume design (Annie Symons, Yvonne Duckett), art direction ...Madeleine Brand says outside offers lured her from KPCC
Madeleine Brand, who quit KPCC Sept. 21, told Current that “outside offers just became too attractive” for her to remain at the Pasadena ...Anthony Tiano, longtime KQED president, dies at 71
Anthony Tiano, president of KQED in San Francisco from 1979–93, died Aug. 12 at his home in Albuquerque, N.M. He was 71. At ...George Stoney, public-access television pioneer, dies at 96
George Stoney, a pioneering documentarian widely regarded as the father of public-access television, died July 12 at his Manhattan home, days after ...David Rakoff, This American Life contributor, dies at 47
Humorist and essayist David Rakoff, a regular contributor to Public Radio International’s This American Life since the program’s inception, died Aug. 9 after a ...Ken Messer, former g.m. of Yakima’s KYVE-TV, dies at 70
Ken Messer, who served as general manager of PBS affiliate KYVE in Yakima, Wash., from March 2008 through his retirement in June, ...Roger Fisher, creator of The Advocates on pubTV, dies at 90
Roger Fisher, a Harvard law professor who developed the Emmy-and Peabody Award–winning public TV program The Advocates, died Aug. 25 in Hanover, N.H. He ...Jerry Nelson, voice of Count von Count on Sesame Street, dies at 78
The man behind Sesame Street’s Count von Count, Jerry Nelson, died Aug. 23 at age 78. Nelson, who worked with Muppets creator Jim Henson ...Robert Kotlowitz, father of pubTV icon series, dies at 87
Robert Kotlowitz, a pioneering public broadcaster at New York’s WNET who developed several public television series that became signature PBS programs — ...WNYC, EarthFix lead pubmedia’s award winners at ONA 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — Public media continues to earn accolades for its online innovations, as multiple outlets racked up trophies at the Online News ...Cahill chairs CPB Board, panel of GMs appointed to advise PRSS, Coan exits Houston for ...
Patricia Cahill, former g.m. of KCUR in Kansas City, Mo., is the first radio broadcaster to serve as CPB chair.Izzi Smith joins NPR programming, Headlee leaves The Takeaway, Brooks heads project for deaf/blind
Israel “Izzi” Smith signs on at NPR in November as director of programming. His predecessor in the job is Eric Nuzum, who ...Utah educator named director of state’s broadband network for schools
Utah Education Network, the only public TV licensee to receive a federal broadband grant and to join the national US Ignite project ...NPR’s top fundraiser comes from YMCA, Hanley moves to Birmingham and Kendall to Miami, Moe ...
NPR has hired Monique Hanson, from YMCA of the USA, as its chief development officer. Hanson joined the YMCA in 2004 and served ...
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