Programs/Content
PBS taps BBC’s Midwife to boost Sunday viewership
PBS’s yearlong effort to build more audience flow in its primetime schedule moves into new territory with the Sept. 30 U.S. broadcast ...There’s no one formula for radio’s weekends
With national producers offering new programs and the Magliozzi Brothers retiring from Car Talk, program directors at public radio stations may have an opportune ...ITVS prepares for beta tests of enhanced OVEE
An infusion of CPB funding is allowing the Independent Television Service to add more features to OVEE, the online engagement tool that ...New youth-flavored variety entries move genre out of its Prairie Home
Once thought to have been left for dead after the vaudeville era, variety shows have re-entered the public radio reinvention conversation — ...Hinojosa explores civic life in town where multiculturalism is the norm
America By The Numbers, a PBS election special produced by Maria Hinojosa, looks at the demographic shifts found in U.S. Census data, focusing on ...Attracting eyeballs online requires smarter strategy
With their new website up, KPLU journalists scrutinized usage and found clues pointing to stories that work online.NPR, WNYC collaborate to make ‘Ask Me Another’ weekly starting in January
NPR is teaming up with New York’s WNYC to make its trivia and quiz show Ask Me Another into a weekly offering, starting in ...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 ...Philly’s WXPN brings less-known blues musicians to town
This month Philadelphia’s WXPN launched the Mississippi Blues Project, a concert series and website featuring eight musicians who have had limited exposure outside ...Public radio to go deep on political coverage with launch of GOP convention
Here’s a roundup of how NPR, Democracy Now! and Tampa's WUSF are covering the party conventions.NewsHour gives party conventions 18 hours, assigns female anchor team
With the NewsHour's Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff stepping into co-anchor roles for PBS’s coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, producers ...NPR’s embedded bards riff on news through poetic lens
NPR’s All Things Considered now comes with a monthly dose of poetry, courtesy of poets who embed themselves among the network’s journalists...With new independent film, Ira Glass and TAL dream big
'Sleepwalk With Me,' is the program's latest (and biggest) attempt to break into the movie business.Vaults of Austin City Limits move to Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Producers of Austin City Limits have recorded more than 800 performances of the PBS rock music series during the past 37 years, but there ...Insistent sponsors put newsrooms on alert
Underwriters of public radio programs increasingly want to link their names more closely to particular stories and reporting projects, according to station ...
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