Tag: PBS
Charlie Rose producers will pay up to $250K to settle intern lawsuit
Producers of the PBS program Charlie Rose have agreed to pay up to $250,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a ...PBS, WNET to offer specials focusing on Newtown tragedy
With short turnaround, PBS and New York's WNET will offer two programs in the next two days focusing on the aftermath of ...Burns family takes on controversial case, and city of New York, in critically acclaimed documentary
The Central Park Five, written and directed by Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon, is not one of his ...Full speed ahead for Public Media Platform
After two-plus years of planning and prototyping a shared hub providing easy access to digital content from across public media, partners in ...In reshuffle of PBS executive ranks, Hoppe ascends to chief programmer
PBS has restructured its senior management, effective immediately, elevating programmer/producer Beth Hoppe to chief programming executive and general manager, according to a ...The Dust Bowl to explore humans’ role in decimating prairie
Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl has a clear message: What happened before can happen again.Crowd rallies to save pubcasting funding
Some 1,000 marchers gathered on Nov. 3 on Capitol Hill to celebrate the power of public television.Ken Burns, defending PBS in USA Today, pits Reagan’s words against Romney’s
PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose extensive credits include The Civil War, Baseball and the upcoming The Dust Bowl, authored an editorial in Tuesday’s USA Today in which he ...‘Collective of stories’ of women’s movement
Filmmaker Dyllan McGee’s documentary Makers: Women Who Make America features interviews with 70 accomplished women.POV captures five of PBS’s nine news and documentary Emmys
PBS topped all the other broadcast networks, as runners-up ABC and CBS each won seven. POV’s “Last Train Home,” a film about Chinese ...Great Expectations exceeds expectations by winning four of PBS’s 11 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys
As a Masterpiece production competing against other miniseries, movies and specials, Great Expectations received Emmys for outstanding achievement in costume design (Annie Symons, Yvonne Duckett), art direction ...Pipeline 2013
This year's Pipeline survey lists 120 television projects planned, underway, or completed for future seasons on public TV, beginning with Winter 2013. ...PBS taps BBC’s Midwife to boost Sunday viewership
PBS’s yearlong effort to build more audience flow in its primetime schedule moves into new territory with the Sept. 30 U.S. broadcast ...At last, PBS’s new distribution system nears completion
In August 2005, PBS's $120 million Next Generation Interconnection System was hailed as a major advance for the public broadcasting system. Its ...Hinojosa explores civic life in town where multiculturalism is the norm
America By The Numbers, a PBS election special produced by Maria Hinojosa, looks at the demographic shifts found in U.S. Census data, focusing on ...
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