Tag: PBS
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Know something about antiques? Prove it,” screamed the ad seeking “pickers” for Market Warriors, the long-awaited companion series to PBS’s most popular primetime program, Antiques Roadshow. ...PBS proposes 2% dues increase, okays common-carriage extension
PBS is seeking a 2 percent increase in membership fees in its draft budget for fiscal 2013. Although still subject to review ...Independent producers’ open letter to PBS, March 2012
Independent producer Kartemquin Films posted this petition online to arrange more favorable scheduling than Thursday nights for the indie showcases POV and Independent Lens. See also <Current coverage. ...Suspects charged in connection with 2011 cyberattacks on PBS, other entities
Five suspects, considered among the “most sophisticated hackers in the world” by authorities, were arrested and charged Tuesday (March 6) in Manhattan ...Mundt to NPR, APM lays off Alvarado, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist joins WHYY, and more…
NPR has hired Todd Mundt as editorial director for NPR Digital Services In his new position, Mundt will help stations develop digital ...Indie docs lose viewers, carriage as they’re moved to Thursdays
The shift of Independent Lens from Tuesdays to Thursdays this season has created ratings and carriage woes for the indie-doc showcase.NPR promotes Wilson to chief content officer, Arnold departs PRI, and more…
NPR President Gary Knell has restructured the news organization’s top ranks, elevating digital chief Kinsey Wilson to executive v.p. and chief content ...Output: PBS’s first-ever Online Film Festival screens 20 short films, gilded applause for The Moth, public ...
Partners in the project are the pubmedia minority consortia — the Center for Asian American Media, Latino Public Broadcasting, Native American Public ...Local/national fundraising ‘rules of the road’ needed
While a local public broadcasting station traditionally romances big-donor prospects in its locality, it can occasionally find itself in a jealous spat ...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 ...
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