Center details future foundation giving
The Foundation Center has compiled information detailing how the economic climate may be affecting foundation giving.
March 5, 2009 | https://current.org/2009/03/center-details-future-foundation-giving/Your search for climate returned 342 results
Pipeline 2009
This annual list, now incorporating its Dec.
December 22, 2008 | https://current.org/2008/12/pipeline-2009/Producer’s own mentor: first in a series
Lindsey is embarking on a vast project to collect elders’ knowledge from around the world — their methods of predicting future events, reconciling people in conflict, and understanding causes and effects of climate change.
November 10, 2008 | https://current.org/2008/11/producers-own-mentor-first-in-a-series/Was ethanol industry’s rebuke of “Frontline” warranted?
The ethanol industry’s overreaction to “Heat,” a Frontline doc about climate change that aired this week, says “a great deal about the nervous state” of the industry, writes a Chicago Tribune columnist.
October 24, 2008 | https://current.org/2008/10/was-ethanol-industrys-rebuke-of-frontline-warranted/Pipeline 2008
It won’t cause as many lumps in throats as the highly concentrated preview reel that PBS displays at its Showcase conference each spring, but it offers many jolts of promise for upcoming seasons of public television.Responding to Current’s annual Pipeline survey, producers and their distributors supplied most information for this list of about 140 completed, scripted, proposed and dreamt-of productions.
November 5, 2007 | https://current.org/2007/11/pipeline-2008/How to stop more towers from collapsing
At Mountain Lake Public Broadcasting in upstate New York, Alice Recore put $1.2 million into reinforcing and preparing WCFE’s 30-year-old tower for the DTV age.
July 23, 2007 | https://current.org/2007/07/how-to-stop-more-towers-from-collapsing/Moyers: ‘The best is yet to come . . . I am an optimist’
Text of Bill Moyers’ speech May 18, 2006, at the PBS Showcase Conference, Orlando, Fla.
May 18, 2006 | https://current.org/2006/05/moyers-the-best-is-yet-to-come-i-am-an-optimist/Moyers’ speech to National Conference for Media Reform, 2005
Six months after retiring as host of PBS’s Now with Bill Moyers, the longtime journalist spoke to activists gathered for the conference in St.
May 15, 2005 | https://current.org/2005/05/moyers-speech-to-national-conference-for-media-reform-2005/Lehrer expects to feel some heat: ‘What we’re doing is kitchen work’
Jim Lehrer, co-founder and host of PBS’s NewsHour, spoke April 12, 2005, at the PBS Showcase meeting in Las Vegas, where he accepted the PBS Be More Award.
April 12, 2005 | https://current.org/2005/04/lehrer-expects-to-feel-some-heat-what-were-doing-is-kitchen-work/“I think there’s a lot of fear in the air out there,” KCPT President Bill Reed tells the Kansas City Star, in an article about “A Company of Soldiers,” a Frontline documentary that includes profanity spoken by American soldiers under fire.
February 22, 2005 | https://current.org/2005/02/12460/Buster to visit gay moms on some public TV channels
At least five public TV stations have pledged to air a controversial episode of Postcards from Buster, dropped last week by PBS, that features two families headed by lesbian parents—despite strenuous objections by the nation’s new secretary of education, whose department provides significant funding for the series.
January 31, 2005 | https://current.org/2005/01/buster-to-visit-gay-moms-on-some-pubtv-channels/Is Bill Moyers the last of a breed or was he the first?
When Bill Moyers signs off after the Dec.
November 15, 2004 | https://current.org/2004/11/is-bill-moyers-the-last-of-a-breed-or-was-he-the-first/Citing a poor funding climate for arts programming, WGBH cancelled Art Close Up, a pared down version of its Emmy-winning series Greater Boston Arts.
September 9, 2004 | https://current.org/2004/09/12683/Standing on its own, WNYC takes cues from New York City’s vitality
“We don’t do anything in a small way,” says Laura Walker, and in her eight years as president of New York’s WNYC the station has learned to live large.
April 26, 2004 | https://current.org/2004/04/standing-on-its-own-wnyc-takes-cues-from-new-york-citys-vitality/Following Lou Rukeyser’s act
It’s 8:30 p.m. Eastern time on CNBC, and four chimes are sounded.
June 2, 2003 | https://current.org/2003/06/following-lou-rukeysers-act/Families try homesteading for spring Frontier House
A diverse group of Americans placed in a remote and inhospitable locale must overcome physical challenges and psychological stress for a chance at winning a huge prize that will change their lives. Sound like an idea for a “reality TV” series? Actually, the description fits not only a forthcoming PBS series — The Frontier House, a sequel to 1900 House that’s scheduled for next April and May —
September 10, 2001 | https://current.org/2001/09/families-try-homesteading-for-spring-frontier-house/Wake Forest University faculty committee report on WFDD conflict, 2000
Five months after the conflict developed between Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and its public radio station, WFDD, the faculty’s Senate Ad Hoc Committee on WFDD released this report Feb.
February 2, 2000 | https://current.org/2000/02/wake-forest-university-faculty-senate-report-on-wfdd-conflict-2000/WQEX deal wins at FCC, loses in the end
Seventeen million dollars slipped through WQED’s fingers last week when a partner in its long-delayed deal to sell sister channel WQEX abruptly backed out, even though they had won a go-ahead at the FCC a month earlier.
January 24, 2000 | https://current.org/2000/01/wqex-deal-wins-at-fcc-loses-in-the-end/PTV Weekend proposal by Lawrence Grossman, 1997
In May 1997, former PBS President Lawrence K. Grossman put forth results of a study backed by the Markle Foundation.
May 12, 1997 | https://current.org/1997/05/ptv-weekend-proposal-by-lawrence-grossman-1997/Having ‘done the job,’ Carlson will depart CPB
Richard Carlson, a Republican credited with defending public broadcasting from attacks by members of his party, announced Jan.
February 3, 1997 | https://current.org/1997/02/having-done-the-job-carlson-will-depart-cpb/