Tag: Audience
KCET briefly pulls ahead of PBS’s main station in L.A.
Though it now does without PBS programs, KCET briefly recovered its role as the most-watched public TV station in Los Angeles in ...Flow plan would push spots deeper into PBS hours
The traditional pledge-drive mantra brags about a piece of public television’s ancestral DNA: “PBS — your home for quality, uninterrupted programming.” So the ...Study sees growth if NPR loosens up, sounds less elite
A new study for NPR identifies a much bigger potential news audience for public radio if producers craft shows to be ...Thinking outside the core
While our audience stereotypes may be better informed than they were 40 years ago, they can blind us to our potential ...With RFP, PBS pursues ‘Explorer Archetype’ in productions
From PBS’s June 2010 request for primetime series proposals to be funded by the CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund. See also Current feature ...Public affairs: What the invisible hand of the news market leaves all too invisible
People consuming public affairs coverage because of duty or a fascination with policy create a demand for news with context, ...Yes, web use is growing, but TV is still setting records
This paper began with a simple question. A station manager wanted to compare the sizes of her station’s web audience with its ...‘Tent-poles’ ahead
PBS is raising tent-poles to reinvigorate its primetime lineup. Over the next one to three years, it will shrink down a number ...The ears have it: classical that’s upbeat, melodic, forward-moving
Looking to lift up your midday radio audience? Try some uplifting music. That’s a lesson from 10 classical radio stations that have been ...News cycle attracts record listening
NPR programming on public radio stations topped its previous audience record by reaching 27.5 million listeners a week during Arbitron’s fall 2008 ...Surge of channels, people meter chaos depress PBS ratings
There is no shortage of factors to explain why public TV ratings have kept sliding. For one, the proportion of viewers with ...Casual, serious listeners agree on sounds of music: some you love to hear
Most listeners to classical music radio decide whether or not to listen based primarily on the sound and the emotional impact of ...Study’s answers are questionable — and the question aims too low
The Midday Classical Music Testing Project, presented by Public Radio Program Directors at its conference in September [2007], is fundamentally flawed in ...Masterpiece to be umbrella for 3 strands
Suspecting that Masterpiece Theatre is showing its age after 36 seasons — an eon in TV years — the program’s producers at Boston’s WGBH ...As cume slips, duo aims to keep PBS ‘relevant’
For the past four years under PBS President Pat Mitchell, the network has had two chief program executives: at headquarters in Alexandria, ...
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