Tag: PBS
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 ...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.
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