Programs/Content
Video center chief Fifer will lead ITVS
ITVS, the CPB-funded organization operating in the tricky middle-ground between independent filmmakers and public TV stations, has appointed a leader in the ...‘For listeners, we’re not the alternative, we’re the ideal’
CPB broke format in May 2001, giving its top radio honor, the Edward R. Murrow Award, to one of its own employees, ...Sonic IDs: Bursts of lush and local life are new stations’ trademark
About a year and a half ago, we were getting ready to launch a new public radio service here on Cape Cod ...Philly gets its first airing of 1968 Wiseman film
If Frederick Wiseman’s High School works like a time machine, transporting viewers back to their own coming of age experiences in this quintessential American ...Audio producer David Isay: Curiosity . . . respect . . . trust
... David Isay, along with a growing number of gifted documentary-makers, are now experiencing the satisfaction of creating serious inquiries into contemporary ...Isay’s people: survivors holding on with dignity
In the long ago 1950s, a friend of mine, the gifted writer Marya Mannes, composed short features for a lively magazine called The Reporter. ...APT sees 70% carriage for animated tales of danger and heroism
Serialized adventures of an orphan mouse who dreams of becoming a heroic warrior come to the screen [in April 2001] through American ...‘It’s going too fast’
“I don’t remember talking to you before. I can’t remember yesterday. Tomorrow I won’t remember this. It’s not there.” “Is that distressing?” ...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 ...
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