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Why chamber music deserves a place on classical playlists
Some selections that argue for more frequent airplay.What we’re reading about the Sesame–HBO deal
Reactions to the deal that are worth your time.A roundup of regional Emmy winners
Big winners included Georgia Public Broadcasting, Maryland Public Television and WFYI in Indianapolis.Reactions to the Sesame Street–HBO deal
Some of our favorite responses to the big announcements.HBO to premiere new ‘Sesame Street’ shows, provide them for free to PBS in 5-year ...
New Sesame Street episodes will premiere exclusively on HBO starting this fall and will be available to PBS after nine months.PBS drops hourlong ‘Sesame Street’ from fall schedule
The half-hour version of the show, which premiered last fall, will continue.Makers, subjects of PBS’s indie docs bring diversity to public TV, study finds
The study’s authors argued that films such as God Loves Uganda are central to public TV’s mission.With focus on black culture, public TV’s ‘Soul!’ pushed the envelope
“There was always a sense that Soul! was ‘out there’ for public television, that it was doing things and saying things that made ...Texas stations launch newsroom collaboration
The initiative grows out of the stations’ partnership on producing the daily newsmagazine Texas Standard.What a public radio program director learned at Podcast Movement 2015
Roman Mars is a hero, there’s a problem with dude overload, and more.PBS appeals to indie filmmakers with bigger marketing budget, multiplatform strategy
An arts festival will promote a documentary about Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, among other films.Why APM’s ‘Wits’ didn’t make it
There are lessons for everyone in public media from the rise and abrupt fall of the variety show.Kerger on end of ‘Downton’: “Great television begets great television”
”We really have an abundance of programs that have been pitched to us.“American Public Media Group lays off 10 in newsroom, cancels ‘Wits’
The changes complete a planned reorganization first revealed earlier this month.New artists take over animation for StoryCorps’ video shorts
StoryCorps is also ramping up station outreach efforts to help programmers use the shorts as interstitials.
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