Television programs
On public TV, scientists chart path to celebrity, influence
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Public television played a crucial role in helping several personalities construct their scientific fame.
Programs/Content
The most noteworthy pubmedia news of 2014
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We asked our reporters to reflect on a year’s worth of trends, events and change in public media. Here’s what stuck with us.
Quick Takes
Wednesday roundup: Forest creates sustainer premiums, Curious George pitches NYC
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• Pubcasting fulfillment company Forest Incentives is launching Forest Music Express, an experimental sustainer premium service for pubmedia stations. The service will allow stations to offer legal music downloads to sustaining members. Forest Incentives is working with major music labels to offer more than 20 million songs to stations, according to a press release. The company has piloted the service with Philadelphia’s WXPN and KPLU in Tacoma, Wash. • PBS Kids’ favorite monkey Curious George is taking on a new role, as New York City’s official family ambassador.
Programs/Content
A new spin on Cosmos comes to commercial TV
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When Carl Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan couldn’t reach an agreement with PBS over her remake of the iconic pubTV series, Fox rolled out the celestial welcome mat.
Carl Sagan
With new ‘Cosmos’ on horizon, makers of original look back
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The “Cosmonauts” share memories of their voyage onboard the first Spaceship of the Imagination: dealing with warlike production conditions, creating Saturn’s rings and touching the space-age zeitgeist.