Programs/Content
PBS version of ‘reality TV’ distills drama from real life
As provocatively staged “reality TV” series explode on the commercial networks, PBS is expanding its own slate of what it calls “observational ...How NPR webifies its programming — and you can, too
Nobody in public radio has encoded and streamed as much audio on the Internet — or had to automate the handling of ...Forum urges strong role for public TV in education
If the National Forum for Public Television Executives has its way, public TV will: raise an additional $200 million a year by loosening ...Several chefs prepare new drama menu for PBS
After years of charges that PBS has ignored American drama in favor of British imports, the tides are turning. This fall will ...Better Saturday competition seen for the kids audience
In a bid to expand its children’s franchise into an increasingly competitive daypart, PBS on Sept. 30 will launch Bookworm Bunch, a block of ...Video description today: For their audience, words are worth a thousand pictures
A visually impaired person watching CBS’s Survivor cannot see the ousted member’s torch extinguished, doesn’t know what Bart writes on the blackboard in The Simpsons‘ ...Promising medium for the blind: audio over the Internet
The Internet will revolutionize how radio reading services deliver — and their visually impaired clients receive — information, but providers ...Challenge for public radio: inspiring, hiring, keeping talent
Ira Glass has another vision. The first one launched his hugely successful show, This American Life, which developed a fresh narrative style for public ...PBS President Pat Mitchell: ‘I think I’ll be learning every day of the year’
Since she was hired as PBS president early in February [2000], Pat Mitchell has met with 60 or 70 of public TV’s ...Fans’ demand prompts revival of sci-fi classic
WNET, dastardly villain in a two-decade scheme to deprive science-fiction buffs of the coolest public TV program of all time, this ...Did WGBH do enough to guard veracity of its antiques hit?
WGBH acknowledged that one of the most compelling segments on Antiques Roadshow — the so-called "watermelon sword" appraisal — was faked without its knowledge. ...Idaho bans public TV programs that ‘support’ law-breaking
Idaho’s state legislature has imposed extraordinary restrictions on the state public TV network, in delayed reaction to its broadcast last September of ...‘Hasty mistake’ at WFDD prompts talk of ideals
For the faculty of Wake Forest University, the hush order given to reporters at the ...Pubradio serves up UFOs down by the Rio Grande
A weekly half-hour program about space aliens — probably the only one in public radio (but who knows?) — has just been ...Saudek’s Omnibus: ambitious forerunner of public TV
When producer Robert Saudek died in 1998, his New York Times obituary called him “the alchemist-in-chief of what is often called the golden age ...
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