Tag: Education/Engagement
Instructional TV sales exec moves to NBR’s bigger league
In his career in the media niche of instructional television, Mykalai Kontilai worked with several respected names in public broadcasting as well ...Veterans’ welcome home morphed from doc to project to movement
Wisconsin Public Television’s LZ Lambeau “welcome home” outreach for Vietnam veterans and their supporters last month was judged so successful that pubcasters ...Public TV takes note: health care bills have billions for education
Health-care legislation now pending in Congress may be one of the best new sources of support for public-service content, public TV’s lobbyists ...Wisconsin plan: ‘I’d be there for that’
While shooting more than 100 interviews for their Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories series, Wisconsin Public Television producers kept hearing the same comment from many ...Parks outreach as big as all outdoors
Doing more than her share for public TV’s $6 million outreach project surrounding Ken Burns’ National Parks series, Shanda Roberts lost her shoe in ...Many stations packaging their own kids’ channels
With the all-digital future arriving, if haltingly, and a bigger share of viewers likely to come through DTV multicast channels, ...Observing subprime ‘tsunami,’ CPB commissions a response
Pagedale’s story is part of a multiplatform project created by KETC in St. Louis, launched July 1 in partnership with CPB, to ...Raising Readers initiative: Ready to Learn goes for depth instead of breadth
In 20 cities across the country, stations are organizing Super Why! reading camps, hosting book-centric sporting events and concerts and handing out Super Why! and WordWorld DVDs ...EDCAR: ‘mother ship’ for school media
Five years after the collapse of the CPB-backed OnCourse project, public TV is training for another run at the target. Which is: ...We threw the doors wide open. Want to try it?
You know that anxious feeling when you throw a party and no one comes? We truly had no idea what to expect ...What makes public broadcasting ‘public’ is engagement
The authors head the Public Media ThinkTank at American University in Washington, D.C. With backing from the Ford Foundation they’re working to ...Barksdale: Make literacy your mission
Corporate leader and philanthropist James Barksdale, a co-chair of the PBS-appointed Digital Future Initiative, previewed his thinking in a Current commentary seven months before ...Target: sitters who could be teachers
KCET in Los Angeles unveiled a multimillion-dollar initiative to help prepare kids for kindergarten by training the adults who care for them. ...What’s all this I hear about ‘social capital’?
Can you remember when you first heard the word “paradigm”? All of sudden everything was “paradigms” — shifting, evolving or disappearing . ...Forum urges strong role for public TV in education
If the National Forum for Public Television Executives has its way, public TV will: raise an additional $200 million a year by loosening ...
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