Programs/Content
Liberty!
The makers of Liberty!, which airs Nov. 23-25 on PBS stations, are trying nothing less than to renovate the dusty reputation of the ...Christo’s bet on news/talk paid off for Boston’s WBUR
See Jane. See Jane run WBUR. See Jane ditch the music for NPR news and talk. Grow WBUR, grow. Why the primer approach? ...Researchers invite others to use Audience 98 data
Public radio audience researcher David Giovannoni this week will present findings from Audience 98, a major study that aims to extend programmers’ ...After all we’ve done, think how much more we can do
In his keynote address at the PBS Annual Meeting, June 22, 1997, David McCullough celebrated the value of history, the joy of ...Russell Morash: This old Yankee leads a guerrilla crew
It’s raining, so the production crew has scrapped a planned hilltop shoot. Now Russell Morash has just learned that the cement truck ...Critics arise as PTV Weekend plan gets some ink
Lawrence Grossman’s PTV Weekend proposal for experimentation with a two-night commercial network for public TV stations — described for the first time ...‘Something was very wrong’
Four days before the May 27 airing of “Innocence Lost: The Plea,” Frontline‘s third documentary on the Little Rascals child-abuse case in Edenton, ...Let’s not do it: PTV Weekend is a bad idea
A debate on the proposed PTV Weekend experiment for two-nights-a-week advertising on public TV Against the plan, below: Fred Esplin, general manager of ...If you love ‘This American Life,’ you really love it
This American Life is unlike anything on public radio. But what would you expect from a man who once devoted an hour of Talk of ...Hull dived into the PBS archives, found himself among old friends
After a year of combing through PBS’s archives, Ron Hull has uncovered a treasure-trove of programs worth reviving one way ...How should public TV follow up the Forsyte Saga success?
Near the end of June 1970, Stanford Calderwood and his wife, Norma Jean, were comfortably settled in their regular rooms in London’s ...‘In the Life’: Everywhere their cameras go, they seem to find gay people
'In the Life' is approaching its fifth anniversary on public TV, aired on more than 90 transmitters and rejected for twice as ...Terrier fans tell the rest of the story
You probably wouldn’t want one. Not if you knew what they’re like. Leave them alone and they’ll rip your couch, dig up ...KQED made its mark by making programs
San Francisco’s KQED-TV remains one of the most-watched public TV stations in the country, but, in the 1980s and ’90s it suffered under ...With funding as shaky as ever, the craft of historical documentaries hits new highs
Current: There was a long period when TV critics regularly wrung their hands over the death of the long-form documentary. Now PBS has ...
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