Tag: PBS
Duggan will look to nonprofits in search for top PBS program executive
PBS will look at theater, arts and nonprofit executives to fill its long-vacant position of chief program executive, President Ervin Duggan told ...Duggan maps path to shared gains for system
PBS put forth a new framework for thinking about its relationship with member stations last week, asserting that they’re all in the ...Job description: watch your step, make magic
PBS’s chief program executive is a high-profile job that comes with a salary cap, a heavy workload and no excess of resources. ...Rock ’n roll pilgrimage
Admired series disappears into copyright limbo Followup, 2008 The series contained so many musical clips that the producers apparently didn’t want to ...Dear Impresario: Let’s recreate PBS as the citizens’ channel
In 1995, Current asked three of public TV’s highly regarded program-makers to write “Dear Impresario” letters to the next chief programmer at PBS ...PBS makes alliance with MCI to develop online service
PBS and MCI will develop a computer information service that supplements public TV programming while letting consumers place online orders for books, ...What did Barney earn, and why didn’t PBS get more?
Of all the facts, half-truths and distortions used by public broadcasting's opponents in the ongoing contest to redefine the field's public image, ...Orlando Bagwell: History-teller takes his craft into new realm
In many ways, Orlando Bagwell’s work announced his arrival as a notable creative talent years ago, when he and a handful of ...Goal for Ready to Learn: engage kids and parents
On July 11, PBS begins beaming its long-anticipated Ready to Learn service to 11 pilot stations, embarking on what planners acknowledge will ...Ervin Duggan hired from FCC to lead PBS
As PBS’s fourth president, FCC member Ervin S. Duggan, 54, will take the lead of public TV at a time when momentous ...Does public TV get a big enough piece of Barney?
While earning the adulation of the nation's toddlers, the six-foot dinosaur with his own PBS show has received an adverse response from ...Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Broadcasting
These are the recommendations of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Television, released in the July 1993 report Quality Time? The complete ...Frontline: an ‘essential’ mechanism for telling serious stories
Frontline sometimes comes on like a multimedia prosecutor, revealing the evidence in pictures, voices and logic, and driving toward a conclusion. It’s usually ...The Voters’ Channel: A Feasibility Study, 1990
The Markle Foundation, then a major backer of public TV, proposed in 1990 that PBS develop the Voters’ Channel, a project planned ...PBS hires Jennifer Lawson as chief programmer
The Public Broadcasting Service reached across the Potomac River and some bad blood to pick Jennifer Lawson, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s ...
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