Tag: PBS
Unusual rights delay: hint of budget strife?
PBS’s ongoing negotiations to curb per-hour costs of producing programs and to assert more control over content are increasing friction with its ...Next, PBS Tuesday schedule goes for the flow
If this is Tuesday, it must be history. At least, that’s what PBS hopes viewers think as the service moves forward with ...Downton returns, doubling average PBS evening rating
The return of Downton Abbey proved to be a ratings blockbuster for PBS, while critics mostly heaped praise on the Emmy-winning drama’s second season. Downton’s ...PBS to produce sessions on TV fundraising at PMDMC
Next year’s Public Media Development and Marketing Conference, the annual event organized by pubradio’s Development Exchange Inc., will include a new track ...News and Documentary Emmys, 2011
It’s been a very good Emmy season for indie documentaries on PBS. POV received four of the six statuettes credited to PBS in ...Preschoolers get 40-plus (count ’em!) new PBS Kids math games
PBS Kids unveiled last week its largest offering of math-skill games for preschoolers — a cache of 40 games that can be ...Party backs GOP nomination debate at OPB in March
Oregon Public Broadcasting will produce and provide to NPR and PBS stations exclusive coverage of a Republican presidential debate from its Portland ...CPI hires four, Abumrad gets $500K MacArthur fellowship, three join FCC panel, and more…
Ellen Weiss, the NPR News chief who took the network’s blame for the Juan Williams affair, has joined the Center for Public ...Meet the cub of the tiger of the house that Fred built
It hasn’t been a truly beautiful day in the neighborhood for more than 10 years. Not since Fred Rogers, star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood ...Musicians’ stories join their music in Sound Tracks for PBS
Steve Talbot worked in public TV for more than 20 years before trying his hand as chief fundraiser for one of his ...PBSd venture and MHz project aim to export public television
Television viewers in Great Britain, the Middle East, Russia and India could soon be watching American public TV shows, if two initiatives ...Puerto Rico’s WIPR: adiós to PBS
The latest station to leave PBS is a production powerhouse, but one not fully integrated into the nation’s English-dominated public TV system. Puerto ...PBS dropping 21 staff positions, including veteran screeners
Thirteen current staff positions and eight vacant positions are being eliminated at PBS headquarters in Arlington, Va., and six “new or restructured” ...Puerto Rican station drops PBS shows
Puerto Rico’s government-controlled WIPR dropped its PBS membership on July 1 — the fourth member station to quit this year. Puerto Rico TV, ...Arts try out for PBS slot on Fridays
With a nod to mission — and a bid for more major donors — PBS is spotlighting the arts for nine weeks ...
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