Programs/Content
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 ...Pipeline 2013
This year's Pipeline survey lists 120 television projects planned, underway, or completed for future seasons on public TV, beginning with Winter 2013. ...Co-host pairing prompts Brand to exit KPCC
KPCC’s ambitious three-year, $10 million project to fortify its newsroom and serve more people of color has created an unintended casualty: The ...KERA gets $1M donation to bolster regional news coverage
The Lyda Hill Foundation has donated $1 million to Dallas pubcaster KERA to expand regional news coverage. The donation comes on the heels ...‘Status quo’ no longer feasible for Delmarva’s local stations
An analysis recommends that the Salisbury University Foundation negotiate with another pubcaster to operate its two Delmarva Public Radio outlets as music ...WNYC reactivates Swing State Radio Network for debate coverage
The “Swing State Radio Network” launched by New York’s WNYC is returning for the upcoming presidential and vice-presidential debates. WNYC public affairs ...What to do about public radio’s ratings slide?
Now that Arbitron’s new ratings methodology is providing consistent and crunchable year-to-year data on radio listening, public radio programmers and producers are ...Film captures a city in turmoil, recovery
Producers of the documentary As Goes Janesville found themselves, quite by accident, in the midst of three national news stories during filming.Pubcaster, college, for-profit news all meld in Macon
A partnership between a public radio station, a private university and a for-profit newspaper is beefing up local news coverage in Georgia’s ...KQED, science academy team up for e-learning project
With Earthquake, an e-book and companion iTunes U course, KQED and the California Academy of Sciences shook up a new approach to multimedia ...CPB IG audit questions spending by Capitol News Connection
An audit by the CPB Inspector General’s Office of Pundit Productions, the nonprofit that operated a public radio news bureau on Capitol ...Pubcasting’s push into online news delivery has built-in limitations
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – At a forum of leading public media professionals, participants expressed mixed feelings about whether public media can, or ...Core value of PRPD: ‘Think audience’
When Public Radio Program Directors Association was formed 25 years ago, the idea that programmers should do things for an audience ...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 ...
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