Tag: Nova
On public TV, scientists chart path to celebrity, influence
Public television played a crucial role in helping several personalities construct their scientific fame.Fibs, Yiddish and Crosbys: tidbits from PBS’s press tour
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — They don’t make the front page, but the comments and observations of panelists during PBS’s portion of the Television ...PBS to track behavior of viewers pledging to core-schedule programs
In an experiment signaling public TV’s resolve to address concerns about the long-term effects of transactional pledging on its donor base, PBS ...Activists turn up heat on WGBH over role of David Koch
Petitions and projections aim at the billionaire on the station's board.Ongoing protest of WGBH Board member Koch to light up Boston landmarks
Three progressive groups have organized a protest Friday night at Boston's WGBH as they continue to pressure the station to drop conservative ...PBS partners with UK producers for Nova special on Typhoon Haiyan
PBS and United Kingdom–based Sky Vision Productions are collaborating on a pair of documentaries about Typhoon Haiyan, to air in both countries, ...Nova faulted for failing to disclose funder’s interest in drones
A recent Nova documentary about unmanned aerial drones sparked a flurry of complaints from viewers upset by what the program’s producers didn’t ...PBS programs capture three WGAW Awards
The Writers Guild of America, West’s prize in the children’s–episodic and specials category went to Christine Ferraro for writing Sesame Street’s “The Good Sport.” ...StoryCorps’ multiplatform production on the anniversary of 9/11 earned a prize for public radio and ...
The Peabody-winning segment aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and featured interviews that had been adapted as animated shorts for PBS’s POV. The award, one ...Streamy Awards for 2009
The Secret Life of Scientists, produced by Seftel Productions for WGBH’s Nova unit, won a Streamy The online series on PBS.org was judged the best ...Ambrosino and ‘Nova’: making stories that go ‘bang’
In the first of May in 1971, Michael Ambrosino sat at his desk at 25 Wetherby Gardens in London writing a six-page, ...
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