Programs/Content
Rock ’n roll pilgrimage
Admired series disappears into copyright limbo Followup, 2008 The series contained so many musical clips that the producers apparently didn’t want to ...Dear Impresario: Let’s recreate PBS as the citizens’ channel
In 1995, Current asked three of public TV’s highly regarded program-makers to write “Dear Impresario” letters to the next chief programmer at PBS ...PBS makes alliance with MCI to develop online service
PBS and MCI will develop a computer information service that supplements public TV programming while letting consumers place online orders for books, ...What did Barney earn, and why didn’t PBS get more?
Of all the facts, half-truths and distortions used by public broadcasting's opponents in the ongoing contest to redefine the field's public image, ...Lawson, Grant depart PBS; program direction unclear
“When you basically cut the legs out under the gang that’s gotten you to this point, this has to mean something,” said a ...Native American net to launch next month
Indian country’s first satellite radio network is set to launch Oct. 31 with a weekday hourlong anthology of native programming from producers around the ...Arts on public television: signatures of past, present and generations to come
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein wowed a lunchtime audience at the Public Television Annual Meeting in June 1994 with her personal testimonial ...Goal for Ready to Learn: engage kids and parents
On July 11, PBS begins beaming its long-anticipated Ready to Learn service to 11 pilot stations, embarking on what planners acknowledge will ...FDR defenders enlist TV critics to refute Holocaust film
Weeks before the debut of an American Experience film on the U.S. response to the Holocaust, defenders of President Franklin Roosevelt undertook a quiet ...With ‘Tales of the City,” public TV earns extremes of scorn and praise
With issues of censorship, decency and sexual mores swirling around it, 'Tales of the City' generated quite a few tales of its ...Ervin Duggan hired from FCC to lead PBS
As PBS’s fourth president, FCC member Ervin S. Duggan, 54, will take the lead of public TV at a time when momentous ...Radio Bilingüe launches 24-hour Latino feed
Public radio last month used an old Ted Turner technique to launch a 24-hour bilingual radio network for Latinos. The superstation in this case ...Does public TV get a big enough piece of Barney?
While earning the adulation of the nation's toddlers, the six-foot dinosaur with his own PBS show has received an adverse response from ...Review finds factual flaws in ‘The Liberators’
After a seven-month investigation of the factual accuracy of ”Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II,” WNET announced Sept. 7, ...Once you’ve chosen your target audience, ‘modes’ help you choose music for them
Not all classical music is created equal. Exactly what is meant by this seemingly heretical statement? Simply, that in the ears of ...
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