Tag: Independent producers

  • Code of Fair Practices for Working with Freelance Radio Producers, 1999

    This code was published in June 1999 by the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) and the Producers’ Advocacy Group (PAG) to ...
  • On to the White House

    The House and Senate resolved last-minute differences over public broadcasting’s fiscal 1991-93 authorization bill and late last week passed the three-year, $800 ...
  • Frontline’s first happy ending, ever’

    At first glance, the girding storyline is whether Darrel and Juanita Buschkoetter, a farming couple raising three young daughters in Lawrence, Neb., ...
  • Fred Wiseman’s novelistic samplings of reality

    As I write these words, Frederick Wiseman’s 30th film, Public Housing, is about to be broadcast, Dec. 1 [1998], through PBS, the national network ...
  • ‘The only place where you have a measure of creative control’

    Documentary-maker Ken Burns told why he’s continuing to work with public broadcasting at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles ...
  • Now independent producers have role in funding

    Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced this week its first round of 25 grants to independent TV producers. The projects will bring to the ...
  • ITVS issues first round of grants

    ...The announcement is a landmark in a long struggle for public TV producers outside of stations to gain an official place in ...
  • Independent TV Service and CPB finally sign accord

    The Independent Television Service and CPB signed a long-delayed contract that will pass $23 million of federal money to the St. Paul-based ...
  • Independent TV Service and CPB finally sign accord

    The Independent Television Service and CPB signed a long-delayed contract that will pass $23 million of federal money to the St. Paul-based ...
  • ITVS taps head

    The Independent TV Service, the organization established by Congress to distribute $6 million in production grants to independent television producers, has selected ...
  • ITVS taps first head: John Schott

    The Independent Television Service, the organization established by Congress to distribute $6 million in production grants to independent television producers, has selected ...
  • Larry to the third power

    Lawrence Daressa, Laurence Hall and Lawrence Sapadin are the collective mind and spirit behind the Independent Television Service, designed this year to ...
  • Quarrel kicks off new ITVS

    Independent producers and officials of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have established the new independent television service with another quarrel. The two parties ...
  • Producers, CPB name fund panel

    The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and independent producers have agreed to an 11-member board of directors to head the Independent Television Service. ...
  • House committee approves independent program service for public TV

    The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday approved a public broadcasting funding bill that would create a separate program service for independent ...