Programs/Content
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 ...To empower active citizens with knowledge, locally as well as nationally
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...To serve as a catalyst in making our cities work
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...This time we let our listeners hear directly from candidates
In fall 1992, a number of public broadcasting’s gatekeepers opened their gates to give candidates unedited, unmediated “free time” to talk with ...But how did outreach affect life in the real world?
The evaluation — one of the most extensive attempts to assess the influence of a public TV outreach project — found that ...Advocates of free time for candidates are many — those who try it are few
Though the 1988 campaign prompted many calls for television networks to let candidates talk directly to the voters, candidates again this season ...‘Tongues Untied’: a debate on purpose and courage
The film wasn't explicitly on the agenda for the first of two open-mike sessions at the Public Television Annual Meeting June 23, ...Now independent producers have role in funding
Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced this week its first round of 25 grants to independent TV producers. The projects will bring to the ...
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