Programs/Content
Germans pick NPR over Voice of America to broadcast in Berlin
An FM station in Berlin will soon become the first programmed overseas by National Public Radio.Return of the Pythons: their PBS premiere
Bring out your dead, practice your silly walks, and steel yourselves for something completely different, yet strangely familiar. PBS is launching a ...It’s OK: Despite son’s disability, laughter is allowed in this film
The title character of The Teachings of Jon is a middle-aged North Carolina man with Down syndrome who has an IQ of 20, can’t ...Doc-makers get specific about copyright fair use
Friday afternoon, things changed for producers who need to use somebody else’s footage and music in their documentaries. Clearing rights may still ...Good isn’t good enough — our best is ahead
Public radio is hitting home runs, but it can do better. Producer and StoryCorps founder Dave Isay says public radio is entering ...Probe finds Tomlinson’s unilateral actions at CPB exceeded chair’s authority
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson repeatedly violated provisions of both the Public Broadcasting Act and the corporation’s guidelines for board members’ behavior, according to ...Monkey trial still timely for tour of radio docudrama
Ed Asner takes the role of Bryan, not Darrow, in LATW’s drama based on the Scopes transcript. John de Lancie, at right, ...What makes public broadcasting ‘public’ is engagement
The authors head the Public Media ThinkTank at American University in Washington, D.C. With backing from the Ford Foundation they’re working to ...New ombud office met with smiles and suspicion
Are CPB’s new ombudsmen promoters of healthy journalistic discussion or unwelcome monitors now peering over reporters’ shoulders? It depends whom you ask. As ...Barksdale: Make literacy your mission
Corporate leader and philanthropist James Barksdale, a co-chair of the PBS-appointed Digital Future Initiative, previewed his thinking in a Current commentary seven months before ...A cuddly sloth is set for science series stardom
It’s a Big, Big World, a preschool science series from Mitchell Kriegman, promises to be the next big thing for PBS Kids. The series, ...Lehrer expects to feel some heat: ‘What we’re doing is kitchen work’
Jim Lehrer, co-founder and host of PBS’s NewsHour, spoke April 12, 2005, at the PBS Showcase meeting in Las Vegas, where he accepted ...Good news about the splintered TV audience
What you are about to read may sound familiar—like the strategy in public radio, with its emphasis on serving a core audience—but it’s ...Weak audience and income blamed in classical fade
For lovers of classical music, these are difficult times. Once pubradio’s dominant format, classical music is still widespread on the airwaves. As of ...Mitchell probes Buster’s detour into controversy
PBS has launched an internal review to find out why the gay mommies episode of Postcards from Buster took so many people by surprise ...
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