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PBS’ Marie Nelson takes SVP position with ABC News

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | July 31, 2019

After nearly five years as PBS’ VP of news and public affairs, Nelson will work on strategies to attract multicultural audiences to ABC News.

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PBS may continue on commercial multicast channel in South Texas

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | April 3, 2014

PBS is talking with at least three entities interested in saving public television programming in the far southern Rio Grande Valley.

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With Masterpiece sponsorships sold out, PBS adds British sitcom

By Barry Garron, Freelance Contributor | January 28, 2014

PBS had lots to crow about during the recent Television Critics Association Press Tour, combined with just enough controversy to keep reporters intrigued.

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Stations fear exclusion from show production as PBS shifts strategy

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | June 13, 2013

When PBS unveiled its fall slate of primetime programs during its recent conference in Miami Beach, Fla., in May, many of the featured titles were notably missing one thing: presenting or producing stations that typically help shepherd series through the PBS editorial process.

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PBS buys more of what works in primetime

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | June 4, 2013

As public television’s chief program exec and top producers unveiled highlights of the fall 2013 primetime schedule at the PBS Annual Meeting May 13–16 in Miami Beach, Fla., the network also signaled its willingness to invest in genres with track records of building viewership and differentiating public TV from its cable competitors. PBS paired with BBC Worldwide to acquire Last Tango in Halifax, a hit contemporary British drama starring Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as childhood sweethearts who reunite after 60 years apart. Call the Midwife, a drama that PBS chief programmer Beth Hoppe bought to boost Sunday-night viewership in fall 2012, will return for a third season in 2014. PBS’s strategy to build affinities between programs scheduled together during primetime, initiated last year, appears to be paying off. As network and member-station programmers in Miami celebrated their recent ratings successes, they also looked ahead at plans to build on them.

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Tough reality for PBS: Roadshow audience doesn’t flow easily into Market Warriors

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | April 4, 2013

PBS has ended production of Market Warriors, the Monday-night series that was a lynchpin in its strategy to hold on to viewers of Antiques Roadshow, the most-watched regular series in the primetime schedule.

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