Programs/Content
This American Life: The pimp show turned out to be rare error, thank God
This American Life is hot. The weekly radio program produced by WBEZ, Chicago, and distributed nationally since June 1996, airs on 325 public radio ...Even streamlined history of New York won’t fit in a week
Not every American will buy what Ric Burns and Lisa Ades are selling, but in the 10 hours airing this week on ...Seize the diversity market: a pragmatic view
With the search for Ervin Duggan’s successor now underway, public broadcasting has an opportunity to reflect on how the next PBS president ...Stars of ‘From the Top’ are teen musicians playing from the heart
Seventy stations are trying pilots of the hourlong weekly showcase featuring teenaged classical musicians.Terry Gross: engaged with subject and listeners
Terry Gross is interviewing the actor Dustin Hoffman. He is about to launch what is probably a set piece about his work ...Music that changes the day — for enough listeners
As we debate how best to program classical music on public radio, we seem often to take for granted that we face ...Nonprofits courting DBS for set-aside channels
A ground-floor chance to secure channel space on direct broadcast satellites is opening up for noncommercial organizations that have the wherewithal to ...Electronic genes: an important part of America’s cultural DNA
One witness the congressmen didn’t lecture about donor-list improprieties at a House telecom subcommittee hearing July 20 [1999], was documentarian Ken Burns, ...Marian McPartland: still going full tilt
When the NPR-distributed program Piano Jazz had its 20th anniversary in 1999, Current Contributing Editor David Stewart wrote this profile of the program and its host. ...Is Tinky a gay role model for boys, or a purple toddler in full play?
International stardom has not been easy for Tinky Winky, the Teletubby recently “outed” by the Rev. Jerry Falwell as a gay role-model ...An Age of Kings: an import becomes public TV’s first hit
It was public TV's first unqualified national success, a smash hit. Before Masterpiece Theatre, American Playhouse or Hollywood Television Theatre, there was ...For subjects, documentary is “strong form of family therapy”
Various people tried to prepare Juanita Buschkoetter for the public reaction to The Farmer’s Wife, filmmaker David Sutherland’s cinema verite depiction of the real-life ...Henry Hampton: ‘He endured because his vision was so important’
Henry Hampton, the visionary filmmaker who documented the history of the civil rights movement with the landmark PBS series Eyes on the Prize, died ...Edward James Olmos will head interim Latino TV grantmaking organization
Actor Edward James Olmos is heading a new interim organization that will spend CPB programming funds on public TV projects by and ...Can public radio learn to talk to its Gen-X future?
Public radio’s Gen-X listeners don’t fit their generational stereotype; they’re closer to its older audience than to their peers, said a report ...
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