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Alistair Cooke, 95
Just five weeks after filing his last Letter from America for the BBC, Alistair Cooke died March 30 [2004] at his home in Manhattan. ...Grammy academy salutes McPartland for ‘timeless legacy’ of music
The Recording Academy presented a 2004 Trustees Award to jazz pianist and public radio host Marian McPartland. The award recognizes “music people ...Coonrod’s plan works: Cox will head CPB
Kathleen A. Cox will step up from chief operating officer of CPB, becoming the corporation’s first woman ...WETA founder Elizabeth Campbell dies at 101
Elizabeth Campbell, founder of WETA in Washington, D.C., and a pioneer of educational television in the U.S., died Jan. 9 [2004] in ...‘Piano Jazz’ host Marian McPartland, a dame at jazz crossroads
Piano Jazz hits its silver anniversary in April, a landmark that surprises nobody more than venerated host and pianist Marian McPartland. “It’s kind of ...Yankee pitchman, former GBH pres David Ives dies at 84
David Otis Ives cultivated an eccentric Yankee image as a WGBH pitchman that endeared him to New England audiences and helped fuel ...Fred Rogers: ‘No matter where he was, a lot of love came through’
Fred Rogers occupied a quiet corner of the tumultuous television landscape, but his influence was profound and borne of the kindness, ...Julia Child’s place in the Smithsonian
Julia Child’s kitchen is now in the nation’s attic, the Smithsonian Institution’s history museum on the Mall, inserted into a miscellaneous area ...Hull pursues personal history, 72 years ago in Rapid City
Now that he’s retiring, Ron Hull has time to find out who he is. Not that he or anyone else in public TV ...Series founder Stanford Calderwood dies
Stanford Calderwood, who served only a few months as president of WGBH, Boston, but initiated one of its most enduring franchises, Masterpiece Theatre, died ...Bill McCarter, chief exec of independent-minded WTTW/WFMT, Chicago
Bill McCarter, who headed Chicago’s WTTW for 27 years before retiring in 1998, died of complications from cancer April 21. He was ...Public radio hails Rick Madden for life’s work
Rick Madden, who helped to reinvent public radio during 19 years at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, succumbed to brain cancer Feb. 21. He ...Public radio hails Rick Madden for life’s work
Rick Madden, who helped to reinvent public radio during 19 years at CPB, died of brain cancer Feb. 21. He was 56. Madden Madden ...What Jon Rice gave to viewers and to friends
Jon might say that his prime legacy is this television station. What Jim Day and Jon Rice created from nothing more than ...Public TV programming ‘giant’ Jonathan Rice gone at 84
Jonathan C. Rice, the storied program director and co-founder of KQED-TV in San Francisco, died July 22 [2001] at the age of ...
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