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Speaking during the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Burns said he supported PBS’ new initiatives to increase programming diversity.
CPB gave $3 million to establish regional centers for member stations, while the National Science Foundation will boost PBS Terra, the YouTube science hub.
During the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, PBS announced funding for Firelight Media, updates to its producer requirements and a new SVP for DEI.
An ambitious multimedia initiative taught the Los Angeles station’s team “how to enrich our storytelling, broaden our relationships, and spark conversation.”
A closer look at some highlights from the data.
“The people that we cover need to have confidence that we are part of and care about their community and that we’re not just there to fill the airtime,” said News Director Vincent Duffy.
Alexander will be a co-EP for the production alongside Marcy Gunther, director of media development for children’s media at GBH. Kay Donmyer, a writer for “Curious George,” is co-creator and head writer.
With a signal boost and rebranding of WFOS as the Time Machine Radio Network, WHRO aims to reach a new audience of listeners and future donors. “There’s nothing else like it on the air,” said CEO Bert Schmidt.
“If we don’t engage them now, the teens and tweens of today might not as adults of tomorrow value public media.”
Appreciating a longtime talk show producer who “made me a better host because it seemed unforgivable to let her excellent work go to waste.”
“It’s BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It’s not people who are from outside the South coming in and telling what they conceive of the South.”
In an alternate reality in 1983, NPR President Frank Mankiewicz, desperate for cash, unloads the network’s arts programs on a consortium of major-market stations. Where would arts programming be today?
The community radio station in Charlottesville, Va., will turn the show “Jazz at 100” into a curriculum for high school and early college students.
The weekly hour of comedy, trivia and music airs on more than 300 stations.
Stop wringing your hands over how to attract Millennial and Gen Z audiences — focus on creating programs that give them more reasons to listen.
The project’s content will encourage conversations “that parents, caregivers or providers often don’t know how to start.”
After learning they were separately pursuing stories on the pioneering label and its founder, producers Joe Richman and Jad Abumrad decided to share tape and research.
The change comes after longtime host Laura Knoy announced that she would step down.
New Jersey’s WBGO is moving to create new shows and build sponsorships around podcasts on a broad variety of topics.
Rick Steves, Samantha Brown and others are highlighting global destinations while considering how to keep themselves and their viewers safe.