Programs/Content
Ombud’s critique of NPR series prompts rebuke from top brass
“My finding is that the series was deeply flawed and should not have been aired as it was,” the ombudsman wrote. Top ...KUSC broadcasting classical show from Santa Monica beach
KUSC host Rich Capparela has taken his Friday show to the beach. Starting Aug. 23, the Los Angeles classical station personality Rich ...ESPN backs away from NFL reporting project with Frontline
Cable network ESPN on Aug. 22 withdrew from its reporting collaboration with Frontline on an investigative documentary project examining the NFL’s allegedly lax ...Tri States Public Radio to operate student-run WVKC
Illinois-based Tri States Public Radio has negotiated an agreement to operate Knox College’s student-run WVKC-FM as a full-time NPR station. Broadcasting at ...Liberal groups deliver petitions to WNET, demand PBS air Citizen Koch nationwide
Representatives of several liberal groups delivered signed petitions to New York City’s WNET Aug. 13, urging the station to ask PBS to ...QED Cooks celebrates 20th anniversary with ‘Return of the Zucchinis’
Commemorating the accidental abundance of zucchinis in 1993 that spawned the creation of WQED’s hit series QED Cooks with Chris Fennimore, the Pittsburgh pubcaster ...Donors call for measurements that go beyond audience ratings
Foundations and major donors are increasingly asking public broadcasters to demonstrate the impact of their work on their communities, prompting pubcasters to ...Nashville-based radio music show heads to public television
Music City Roots: Live from The Loveless Cafe, a weekly radio show and HD webcast featuring roots, alt-country and Americana music from Nashville, is ...First-ever indigenous people’s channel launches with limited distribution
The United States’ first 24/7 television channel for indigenous people has begun airing on a handful of public television stations across the ...PubTV commits to weekend news show
Public TV stations are backing PBS’s first foray into weekend news by committing airtime to PBS NewsHour Weekend, which debuts next month, although several ...KCPT special examines gun violence as health-care epidemic
KCPT in Kansas City, Mo., is examining gun violence as a health-care epidemic in a live hourlong call-in show this week. “It’s one ...Sharp staff cuts at Pacifica’s WBAI aim to save station
Pacifica has laid off the entire news department of WBAI-FM and almost all paid staff effective Monday in an effort to keep ...Head programmer looking for “PBS twist” in scripted drama on Civil War
PBS is commissioning a second scripted drama, Chief Programming Executive Beth Hoppe told Current at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour this ...Upcoming Genealogy Roadshow spotlights family histories of average Americans
A new reality series tracing the ancestral roots of Americans is coming to PBS directly from Ireland. The format for Genealogy Roadshow was created ...PBS Kids Go! goes bye-bye as colorful branding revamp rolls out to stations
PBS is dropping its PBS Kids Go! graphics and interstitial materials, as part of a revamp of the on-air branding materials surrounding ...
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