Programs/Content
Triple-A strikes chord with disenchanted listeners
One musical voice gaining ground on public radio sounds a little scruffier than the rest. Rather than a viola or sax, it ...Meeting the HD demand: PBS matching rollout to buyers’ slow uptake
With its pockets emptier than usual and few viewers demanding high-definition pictures, PBS is moving to HD more cautiously than the commercial ...Knocking God’s party: Moyers, PBS hear from angry conservatives
Bill Moyers came out swinging three days after the Nov. 5 midterm elections, and the target of his jabs—America’s right wing—came swinging ...Furlaud ornaments do float away — into listeners’ fond memories
I know more than a few public radio listeners who, while admiring the news reports on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, reserve their most ardent ...‘What we try to do . . . is say something new’
“The best of American television can be traced to this one man,” said NovaExecutive Producer Paula Apsell, referring to her boss and the ...Live Wisconsin nest cam captures eagles’ life, death, flight
The live feed from an eagle nest in northern Wisconsin occupied Milwaukee PTV’s digital Channel 10-5 starting in April.Friction and smoke at Whiteriver
The internecine warfare at KNNB, the public radio station on the White Mountain Apache reservation in east central Arizona, seems insignificant now, ...Content Depot: Getting audio gets flexible
This summer public radio will get a taste of an impending change in the technological status quo: the Content Depot. This far-reaching set ...Twin ITVS goals: capturing diversity on videotape, getting it seen
Last year was a good year for the Independent Television Service. ITVS had weathered its first 10 years as a funder and ...‘The Tavis Smiley Show’: created for a black audience, but all are welcome
There’s a burden resting on the broad shoulders of this man who’s bopping his head to a funky beat, tongue out in a ...Boxer KO’s naturalist in contest for May 14
Programmers at PBS and at a key group of stations put themselves on a collision course when they scheduled two different programs ...Convict free after Bikel’s latest doc
Frontline knows how to shake things up in North Carolina. Last week, less than a month after the series aired Ofra Bikel’s 90-minute ...One last visit with Lance Loud
Twenty-nine years after their pioneering observational doc series entranced PBS viewers, the filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond are bringing back the Loud ...Forsyte Saga remake ‘goes for the youthful passion’
... Now The Forsyte Saga is coming down the pike again, in a six-hour adaptation of the first two books in the ...Families try homesteading for spring Frontier House
A diverse group of Americans placed in a remote and inhospitable locale must overcome physical challenges and psychological stress for a chance ...
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