Tag: Firelight Media
NEH pandemic relief grants boost indie filmmakers
ITVS, Firelight Media, the Sundance Institute and Appalshop Inc. received $5.5 million for filmmaking initiatives and other projects.PBS announces initiatives to increase programming diversity
During the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, PBS announced funding for Firelight Media, updates to its producer requirements and a new ...How the Hindsight Project built new relationships between Southern stations and BIPOC filmmakers
“It's BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It's not people who are ...Firelight Media receives MacArthur grant for reserves, innovation fund
Firelight Media, based in New York, gets $500,000 to expand its reserves and establish an innovation fund to experiment with digital storytelling ...CPB gives $2.5 million to Firelight Media diversity initiative
Firelight Media, the documentary filmmaking nonprofit founded by Stanley Nelson, received a $2.55 million grant from CPB Aug. 20 to expand Producers’ ...WKGC dropping NPR affiliation, picking up BBC, APM shows
WKGC in Panama City, Fla., will replace NPR’s newsmagazines with BBC news programs distributed by American Public Media. The station, which is ...Salt Lake City’s KCPW cites program costs, duplication in canceling NPR programs
Salt Lake City pubcaster Wasatch Public Media, licensee of KCPW-FM, will drop all NPR programs June 24, a schedule change intended to ...PBS discount plan a ‘no-brainer’ for WLVT
The public TV station serving eastern Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley recently decided that the best way to survive as an independent station was ...County okays merger of Charlotte’s WTVI, college
The merger of PBS member station WTVI in Charlotte, N.C., with Central Piedmont Community College was approved March 20 by Mecklenburg County ...Al Rose, 70
Albert E. Rose, former program director of New Jersey Network and later the program distributor who brought nightly British news programs to ...For PBS pledge shows, overlap stations must pay extra or play later
The PBS Board tweaked its rules governing one of public TV’s touchiest ongoing internal disputes.Local talks and new national rules aim to end wasteful overlap of stations
From here on out, it will be a lot harder to volunteer a public broadcasting station into existence. For a quarter-century, you mainly ...
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