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The kinds of people who like new experiences, enjoy scanning expanded horizons, want to see things from varied perspectives are the people ...Fiscal year-end layoffs include 10% of PBS staff
Swamped by the recession tsunami as they prepared for the new fiscal year, public broadcasters at PBS headquarters; WQLN in Erie, Pa.; ...PBS grandfathers sectarian shows
In a compromise with the few pubTV stations that carry religious programming, the PBS Board voted June 16 to allow them to ...No show in Escondido for Mister Rogers’ ‘successor’
Michael Kinsell imagined that his Michael’s Enchanted Neighborhood show would replace Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on public television. Instead, Kinsell and his dream ended up on The ...Young promoter cancels his debut as Fred Rogers’ successor
Michael Kinsell, who planned to present himself as the next Mister Rogers at a controversial gala on Sunday in San Diego, told Current ...In PBS news cooperation talks, Bettag says, ‘nobody pulled back’
Tom Bettag, the former ABC Nightline and CBS News producer, says he’s “on a very fast timeline” to report to PBS by June 15 ...Online collaboration: TV, radio have sitdowns
PBS will go public Wednesday with discussion of its News & Public Affairs Initiative — an ongoing study that’s weighing options for ...Diversity: More than good intentions?
Several minority advocates who received the report said they appreciated PBS’s effort, but they found it wanting.Latino producers object: PBS diversity data ‘incomplete and often anecdotal’
The Diversity Committee of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers sent this letter to PBS about its November 2008 Report on ...Latino producers to PBS: Diversity data ‘incomplete and often anecdotal’
The Diversity Committee of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers sent this letter to PBS about its November 2008 Report on ...Surge of channels, people meter chaos depress PBS ratings
There is no shortage of factors to explain why public TV ratings have kept sliding. For one, the proportion of viewers with ...Public Interactive repositioned as online utility for the system
Two initiatives led by NPR will soon offer station websites greater automated handling of editorial content and national sales of underwriting to ...Here I am, your special PBS Kids Island (come to me, come to me)
PBS Kids Island, an online amusement park located on the Raising Readers website (www.readytolearnreading.org), offers learning games created by producers of Super Why!, ...EDCAR: ‘mother ship’ for school media
Five years after the collapse of the CPB-backed OnCourse project, public TV is training for another run at the target. Which is: ...Minority consortia to PBS: PubTV’s ‘stunning lack of diversity’ allowed the Burns flap to occur
Public broadcasting’s five CPB-funded minority consortia sent this letter to PBS President Paula Kerger on April 9, 2007. Dear Paula: I’m writing ...
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