Programs/Content
KQED to study how to reach and engage millennials with science media
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The station’s science team teamed up with science communications experts on a three-year, $3 million research project backed by the National Science Foundation.
Programs/Content
Kids love listening to stories. So why aren’t public media podcasts telling them any?
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“With parents so concerned about kids overdosing on screen time, you’d think public radio would pick up the baton.”
Development
Plant interferes with program funding, though just for 8 years
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A haze of assumptions hung over the film. “Nobody would go near the show,” Schwarz says. “This was the height of the drug war,” Pollan recalls.
History of public media
Frank Baxter, television’s first man of learning
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Like Norman Corwin, the exceptional radio producer profiled in the last issue of Current, Frank Baxter had his great broadcast successes on the cusp, just before his medium became too commercially successful to continue airing the kind of programs that made Corwin and Baxter famous. Both were forerunners of today’s public broadcasters. This Baxter profile was written by CPB’s director of international activities, David Stewart as part of his history of public television programming. When he died in 1982 many were astonished: Frank Baxter still alive in the ’80s! Many remembered him as mature, if not quite elderly, nearly 30 years before when he grasped national attention simply by talking to a TV camera about Shakespeare’s plays and poetry.