Programs/Content
Fred Rogers and the significance of story
The late George Gerbner, a leading scholar of TV program content, wrote this article for the 40th anniversary of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, but it ...Latest Rabbit Ears story: a tear-jerker for its staff
The new owner of Rabbit Ears Productions, Millenium Media, says the company will continue producing radio and video childrens’ stories, despite having ...Revisiting Brideshead Revisited
You may have recently reacquainted yourself with this classic public TV mini-series. The American Program Service and 20 stations have brought it ...Will research bring comeback for radio drama?
Talking about the current status of drama on public radio, NPR’s cultural programmer Andy Trudeau thinks back 10, 15 years ago, to ...Frank Baxter, television’s first man of learning
Like Norman Corwin, the exceptional radio producer profiled in the last issue of Current, Frank Baxter had his great broadcast successes on the ...Duggan will look to nonprofits in search for top PBS program executive
PBS will look at theater, arts and nonprofit executives to fill its long-vacant position of chief program executive, President Ervin Duggan told ...Job description: watch your step, make magic
PBS’s chief program executive is a high-profile job that comes with a salary cap, a heavy workload and no excess of resources. ...How did ‘The Buccaneers’ end up with such a happy ending?
Fifty-seven years ago, in her last novel, Edith Wharton told the story of The Buccaneers — a platoon of lovely American girls invading England, ...What we offer: the case distinguishing NPR news
A longtime NPR correspondent — then vice president in charge of the network’s news division — adapted this article from his remarks ...Who public radio broadcasters are: members of a congregation, with our listeners
This is the view from Martin Goldsmith, then host of NPR’s daily classical music program Performance Today, who served as announcer, producer and program ...Since we’re on public radio, we might as well have fun
In a time when American audiences give themselves to performers who act like “real people,” the irony of Tom and Ray Magliozzi ...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, ...
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