Tag: Gay/lesbian
March [2012] brings major gifts for two pubTV shows
Philanthropists in California and New York contributed separate gifts of $1 million to two public TV shows last month. With her six-figure ...WTCI plans to launch a new multicast channel of local programming with seed funding from ...
WTCI plans to launch a new multicast channel of local programming with seed funding from the city of Chattanooga. The Voyager channel will ...James Lee Mathes, 73, and Fred Burgess, 64
Two public broadcasters active in southern California during the 1960s and 1970s, James Lee Mathes and Fred Burgess, retired to Kansas together ...Secretary of Education objects to Postcards from Buster ‘two moms’ episode, 2005
Margaret Spellings, secretary of education in George W. Bush’s administration, complained to PBS in 2005 about an episode of the animated Postcards from ...‘Hasty mistake’ at WFDD prompts talk of ideals
For the faculty of Wake Forest University, the hush order given to reporters at the ...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 ...Is Tinky a gay role model for boys, or a purple toddler in full play?
International stardom has not been easy for Tinky Winky, the Teletubby recently “outed” by the Rev. Jerry Falwell as a gay role-model ...Revisiting Brideshead Revisited
You may have recently reacquainted yourself with this classic public TV mini-series. The American Program Service and 20 stations have brought it ...
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