Tag: PBS
The Declaration of Interdependence, 2001
Facing the first major station struggle of her 16 months as PBS president — over the perennial public TV issue of common ...Spending goals, slowdown prompt 60 layoffs at PBS
Anticipating the rollout of a new strategic plan and budget proposal, PBS laid off 60 employees March 15. Although the 9 percent cutback of ...Forum urges strong role for public TV in education
If the National Forum for Public Television Executives has its way, public TV will: raise an additional $200 million a year by loosening ...Stations’ Forum petition seeks to reorganize PBS, October 2000
The National Forum for Public Television Executives, meeting in Dallas Oct. 2-4, 2000, agreed upon the following petition to put before the ...Several chefs prepare new drama menu for PBS
After years of charges that PBS has ignored American drama in favor of British imports, the tides are turning. This fall will ...PBS President Pat Mitchell: ‘I think I’ll be learning every day of the year’
Since she was hired as PBS president early in February [2000], Pat Mitchell has met with 60 or 70 of public TV’s ...For the first time, a producer leads PBS
PBS’s new president is Pat Mitchell, departing head of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television, whose appointment was ratified by the PBS ...By-laws of Public Broadcasting Service, 2000
This is the PBS Board’s governing document as amended Feb. 6, 2000. For comparison, see also the original PBS bylaws of 1969, ...PBS and Nesmith settle home-video dispute but are mum on price
LOS ANGELES — The 63-month-old legal fight between public TV and the former distributor of PBS Home Video, Michael Nesmith, was “resolved amicably,” both ...Rumors rampant as Ottenhoff steps down
Chief Operating Officer Bob Ottenhoff is leaving the No. 2 position at PBS after eight years working for Ervin Duggan and the ...Michael Nesmith wins $47 million in video suit against PBS
Almost five years after PBS sued its former home-video distributor, the legal action boomeranged last week, hitting the network with a $46.8 million ...American Experience: where we’ve come from
On a warm summer day in 1946 I find myself, somewhat improbably, at the helm of a U.S. Navy ocean tug, threading ...HDTV debut: full-blown spectacle
Even on crappy old analog TV — the way nearly all of its audience will see it Nov. 9 — PBS’s premiere ...Pubcasting on the Web, three years later
PBS Online is celebrating its third anniversary this week with a doubled staff, an expanded mission, an upgraded teachers’ service that opens next month, ...Ambrosino and ‘Nova’: making stories that go ‘bang’
In the first of May in 1971, Michael Ambrosino sat at his desk at 25 Wetherby Gardens in London writing a six-page, ...
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