Tag: PBS
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PBS’s budget for next year reflects a harsh reality: Revenues from member stations are flat for a third straight year, and scant ...Launch postponed for PBSnews.org
PBS has postponed the rollout of an online news aggregation site called PBSnews.org that it had planned to start in January or ...With projects on hold, PBS hunts spendable cash, tweaks primetime schedule
Don’t tell the county fire marshal, but the president of PBS keeps working while her staff evacuates the building in deference to ...Lehrer hands off anchor role to reporting team
Jim Lehrer, who has reported the news of the day for more than 50 years, became part of it May 12 when ...With WMFE out, there’s a hole in PBS map
WMFE’s sale of its TV station in Orlando, Fla., leaves two smaller public stations reluctant to assume the role of big kid ...Consultants, groups aim to fill voids as PBS Development shifts focus
“We must work differently” in an era of flat membership dues and other funding constraints, said Joyce Herring, PBS’s senior v.p. of ...KCET’s split from PBS leaves uncertainty for both
It’s official: KCET, one of the biggest siblings in the PBS family, is leaving home for good. Although station President Al Jerome ...Three years of talks fail to end dispute over KCET’s dues
June 2007: In a presentation to the PBS Board’s Station Services Committee, KCET protests that its dues assessments are disproportionately high and ...KCET warns it may leave PBS
After negotiating with PBS for eight months over a proposal to reduce its dues and remake public TV in the Los Angeles ...Without PBS dues relief, KCET says it will quit PBS at year’s end
After negotiating with PBS for eight months over a proposal to reduce its dues and reconfigure pubTV in the Los Angeles market, ...CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund weekly series RFP
Three years after Latino activists bitterly criticized Ken Burns’s The War for omitting interviews with Hispanic soldiers and sailors, CPB and PBS concluded negotiations ...With RFP, PBS pursues ‘Explorer Archetype’ in productions
From PBS’s June 2010 request for primetime series proposals to be funded by the CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund. See also Current feature ...Cooney, Fanning honored in Austin
Children’s television pioneer and Sesame Street creator Joan Ganz Cooney is the recipient of this year’s Be More Award from PBS. She accepted her ...PBS entrusts key funding job to good friend of its president
Such hires push a hot-button issue: Public broadcasting’s commitment to diversify its largely white male corps of decision-makers.Incentives for ‘diversity, innovation’ come with big CPB grant to PBS
CPB and PBS are completing an agreement that may lead to the agency’s first annual grants for the PBS National Program Service ...
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