Tag: Q&A
Core value of PRPD: ‘Think audience’
When Public Radio Program Directors Association was formed 25 years ago, the idea that programmers should do things for an audience ...APTS preps proposals for ‘American Archive,’ copyright legislation
While the Association of Public Television Stations and its member stations’ activists will be busy enough fighting off the cutback of more ...Media veteran brings wary revolution to a fortress of tradition
In the 1980s, Peter Gelb produced 25 Metropolitan Opera broadcasts for PBS. Now, as the Met’s general manager, he runs the red-carpeted ...As cume slips, duo aims to keep PBS ‘relevant’
For the past four years under PBS President Pat Mitchell, the network has had two chief program executives: at headquarters in Alexandria, ...‘What we try to do . . . is say something new’
“The best of American television can be traced to this one man,” said NovaExecutive Producer Paula Apsell, referring to her boss and the ...Twin ITVS goals: capturing diversity on videotape, getting it seen
Last year was a good year for the Independent Television Service. ITVS had weathered its first 10 years as a funder and ...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 ...With funding as shaky as ever, the craft of historical documentaries hits new highs
Current: There was a long period when TV critics regularly wrung their hands over the death of the long-form documentary. Now PBS has ...
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