Programs/Content
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 ...American Experience: where we’ve come from
On a warm summer day in 1946 I find myself, somewhat improbably, at the helm of a U.S. Navy ocean tug, threading ...One for the money: Rukeyser’s Friday evening pavane
One evening in London, in 1966, Anne Darlington, a Johns Hopkins graduate on a Fulbright Fellowship, was surprised to see Louis Rukeyser, ...‘Frontline’s first happy ending, ever’
At first glance, the girding storyline is whether Darrel and Juanita Buschkoetter, a farming couple raising three young daughters in Lawrence, Neb., ...Cooking star pays plaintiffs in sexual abuse suits
In most sexual abuse cases, it’s one person’s word against another’s. In the Frugal Gourmet’s case, it was his word against 20 ...Empowered to cook: Julia gives us the courage, shows us her joy
The publication last year of a 700-page, hugely detailed biography of Julia Child (Appetite for Life — Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch, Doubleday) ...Mo’ better radio
Believe it or not, there's a stone tablet full of radio principles guiding This American Life. Ira Glass laid them out in a talk ...CTW finds its cable outlet: a venture with Nickelodeon
In a partnership that aims to position educational children’s programs at the forefront of the digital cable movement, Viacom’s Nickelodeon cable network ...
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