Tag: PBS
Next PBS chief content officer rules all content— as long as it’s on-air
After starting the process to hire a new chief content officer, PBS has reduced the purview of the job. The CCO will ...Next PBS chief content officer rules all content — as long as it’s on-air
After starting the process to hire a new chief content officer, PBS has reduced the purview of the job.For PBS pledge shows, overlap stations must pay extra or play later
The PBS Board tweaked its rules governing one of public TV’s touchiest ongoing internal disputes.PBS won’t raise dues income again next year; Kerger warns it may lose capabilities and ...
Paula Kerger wants public TV stations to know that the combination of flat station dues, dwindling resources and balanced budgets may be ...How to get the best quality out of the digital television standard
PBS convened and CPB supported the PBS Quality Group’s evangelism for DTV quality in 2010 and 2011. The group, including tech specialists ...PBS: Your source for baseball talent
A few PBSers will return to the action in the National Adult Baseball Association (NABA) league this spring. KCET President Al Jerome ...A proposal to abate viewer confusion
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler wrote recently in his online column about what he views as a problem: that public television viewers are confused about ...‘Tent-poles’ ahead
PBS is raising tent-poles to reinvigorate its primetime lineup. Over the next one to three years, it will shrink down a number ...David Fanning’s Loper Lecture, 2009
David Fanning, the founding executive producer of PBS’s Frontline series, gave this talk in 2009 as the annual James L. Loper Lecture in ...In Pittsburgh, members come first in credits
Viewers like you — by name — have literally moved to the front of the line in underwriting credits at WQED in ...Finding Explorer
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 ...
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