Programs/Content
Timeline: Crossroads and context
The America at a Crossroads series and the 2007 standoff and furor over one of its documentaries, Islam vs. Islamists;, had its roots in the period ...Two public radio webcasting royalty pacts
Comparison of previous webcasting royalty deal with new terms negotiated under the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009Angst in studios over webcasting pact
Now that public broadcasting has a webcasting royalty deal with the recording industry, local pubcasters are learning what it requires of them. ...‘Reading Rainbow’ fades this month
PBS comes to the end of the Rainbow Aug. 28 when broadcast rights for one of the system’s longest-running kids’ programs expire and Reading Rainbow ...NPR and PBS plan national PublicMedia Camp
Even though school will have started by then, about 300 public-media folks will get to go to camp on the weekend of ...Prenups: precautions for prudent producers
Too many couples were splitting up before the offspring came along. Or they lived together grumpily, keenly aware they shouldn’t have had ...Austin City Limits rides its brand downtown
Austin City Limits is a hot commodity based on a cool brand built over 33 years on PBS. In two years it moves its ...Smartphone apps for web listening grow in variety
NPR is working on three or four web audio players for different brands of smartphones. And the company behind the Public Radio ...Wisconsin plan: ‘I’d be there for that’
While shooting more than 100 interviews for their Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories series, Wisconsin Public Television producers kept hearing the same comment from many ...We get Keillor’s take on Keillor, but who’s complaining?
The series title means something, says arts documentarian Peter Rosen. If your film runs under the American Masters umbrella, it’s about an artist worth ...Finding Explorer
The kinds of people who like new experiences, enjoy scanning expanded horizons, want to see things from varied perspectives are the people ...Julia: Borrowing Hollywood buzz for the real thing on PBS
The late French Chef Julia Child is getting a burst of extra attention with the Aug. 7 release of Julie & Julia starring Meryl Streep as ...No show in Escondido for Mister Rogers’ ‘successor’
Michael Kinsell imagined that his Michael’s Enchanted Neighborhood show would replace Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on public television. Instead, Kinsell and his dream ended up on The ...Parks outreach as big as all outdoors
Doing more than her share for public TV’s $6 million outreach project surrounding Ken Burns’ National Parks series, Shanda Roberts lost her shoe in ...One story with 1,700 authors
Cars burn in downtown Nashville. Police patrol Boise after massive power outages, widespread looting and near-riots. Our intrepid video correspondent, Kal, rides ...
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