Tag: Obituaries
Stanley Karnow, journalist and historian
Stanley Karnow, whose book Vietnam: A History was the basis of a critically acclaimed 13-hour documentary on PBS, died Jan. 27 at his home ...Ed Burrows, active in movement to win federal aid for public radio, dies at 94
Edwin G. Burrows, a public radio pioneer who was instrumental in getting federal aid to public radio — when CPB’s founding legislation ...George Hall, advocate for educational TV institutions, 82
George Leigh Hall, 82, a public television leader in North Carolina, Illinois and Virginia, died June 5 at a retirement home in ...Julia Child quenched our hunger for learning — and living
In the days before her 92nd birthday, Julia Child had been suffering kidney failure, according to her niece, Philadelphia Cousins. On Thursday, ...Yankee pitchman, former GBH pres David Ives dies at 84
David Otis Ives cultivated an eccentric Yankee image as a WGBH pitchman that endeared him to New England audiences and helped fuel ...Fred Rogers: ‘No matter where he was, a lot of love came through’
Fred Rogers occupied a quiet corner of the tumultuous television landscape, but his influence was profound and borne of the kindness, ...Public radio hails Rick Madden for life’s work
Rick Madden, who helped to reinvent public radio during 19 years at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, succumbed to brain cancer Feb. 21. He ...Public radio hails Rick Madden for life’s work
Rick Madden, who helped to reinvent public radio during 19 years at CPB, died of brain cancer Feb. 21. He was 56. Madden Madden ...Public TV defender, visionary Ralph Rogers dies in Dallas
Ralph B. Rogers, the Dallas businessman who re-founded and perhaps saved PBS in the early 1970s, died Nov. 4 after a long ...
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