Tag: PBS
Ifill made “big mistake” in defending fired journalist, says PBS’s ombud
In his latest column, PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler considers a recent flap involving PBS NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill, who on Wednesday tweeted in support ...NewsHour gives party conventions 18 hours, assigns female anchor team
With the NewsHour's Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff stepping into co-anchor roles for PBS’s coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, producers ...WGBH taps into Olympic spirit with new online doc project
An online-only documentary project from WGBH is channeling the Olympic spirit toward a major sporting event that receives scant media coverage yet ...Aronson promoted at Frontline, NPR Board elections, Lapin joins Current, and more…
The promotion, announced during the Television Critics Association Press Tour last month, was widely reported as an indication that Aronson will succeed ...WGBH, the top producer of PBS programs, now owns Public Radio International
In a move signalling its ambitions to extend its clout and influence in public radio, Boston’s WGBH has acquired Public Radio International, ...Noncom groups file comments on FCC’s third-party fundraising proposal
NPR, PBS and the Association of Public Television Stations are among broadcast organizations weighing in with the FCC on its April proposal ...PBS chief endorses ouster of Market Warriors host Fred Willard
LOS ANGELES — It’s unlikely that PBS will reinstate Fred Willard as announcer of Market Warriors, its new antiquing reality show, if Los Angeles ...PBS discount plan a ‘no-brainer’ for WLVT
The public TV station serving eastern Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley recently decided that the best way to survive as an independent station was ...PBS, six stations testing donation requests on COVE
PBS and six stations are testing approaches for soliciting donations through COVE, PBS’s local-national video platform, according to PBS. Five 15-second pre-roll ads ...WMFE-TV sells for $3.3 million to University of Central Florida
WMFE-TV in Orlando, Fla., the former PBS flagship that had been set for sale to religious broadcasters, has a new buyer. The ...Independent KCET savors big ambitions, makes slow progress
Halfway through its three-year transition from one of PBS’ leading outlets to an independent public TV station in the world capital of ...PubTV tests new approaches for fundraising with kids’ programs
Though public television stations have been reluctant to solicit pledges during their daytime PBS Kids block, some are testing new approaches for ...Multicasts tailored to local priorities
Bolstered by ratings data on their digital multicast channels and years of experience in managing them, public TV station programmers in many ...Fred Rogers goes viral with “Garden of Your Mind” video remix
An Auto-Tuned video of the late PBS icon Fred Rogers is going viral, with more than 700,000 views as of Friday (June 8) ...Needed: courage to shape digital video future
"Today I want to lay out a vision for how we can invent our future, a future where public television is serving ...
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