Tag: Television programs
Colorado stations help raise $1.1 million in flood relief
Broadcasters across Colorado, including several public media stations, raised $1.1 million Sept. 18 during Colorado Flood Relief, a live fundraiser. Torrential rains caused ...NewsHour Weekend adapts PBS flagship for new timeslot, lean production model
PBS backed the startup of NewsHour Weekend as the core element of a revamped approach to its weekend public affairs programs. It ...Detroit PTV looks to bring cultural groups together through its new arts series
Detroit Public Television is using its new arts series, Detroit Performs, to showcase the Motor City’s talents on a wider scale. Local reaction to ...Pubcaster’s memoir details creative early years at WQED
A Secretly Handicapped Man, out in October, is not only the story of Norbert Nathanson’s place in the history of public broadcasting, but also ...After War disputes, PBS focuses on Latino experience with Latino Americans
As the first major television documentary series to tackle a comprehensive history of U.S. Latinos spanning some 500 years, PBS’s six-hour Latino Americans comes ...Second American Graduate Day to raise dropout awareness nationwide
The second American Graduate Day, a live multiplatform “call to action” event focusing attention on high-school graduation rates, hits public TV airwaves ...Upcoming season brings more Downton Abbey merchandise
The fourth season of Downton Abbey, launching in January on Masterpiece, will bring an influx of related merchandise. Soon fans will be able to create ...ESPN backs away from NFL reporting project with Frontline
Cable network ESPN on Aug. 22 withdrew from its reporting collaboration with Frontline on an investigative documentary project examining the NFL’s allegedly lax ...Liberal groups deliver petitions to WNET, demand PBS air Citizen Koch nationwide
Representatives of several liberal groups delivered signed petitions to New York City’s WNET Aug. 13, urging the station to ask PBS to ...QED Cooks celebrates 20th anniversary with ‘Return of the Zucchinis’
Commemorating the accidental abundance of zucchinis in 1993 that spawned the creation of WQED’s hit series QED Cooks with Chris Fennimore, the Pittsburgh pubcaster ...Nashville-based radio music show heads to public television
Music City Roots: Live from The Loveless Cafe, a weekly radio show and HD webcast featuring roots, alt-country and Americana music from Nashville, is ...First-ever indigenous people’s channel launches with limited distribution
The United States’ first 24/7 television channel for indigenous people has begun airing on a handful of public television stations across the ...PubTV commits to weekend news show
Public TV stations are backing PBS’s first foray into weekend news by committing airtime to PBS NewsHour Weekend, which debuts next month, although several ...KCPT special examines gun violence as health-care epidemic
KCPT in Kansas City, Mo., is examining gun violence as a health-care epidemic in a live hourlong call-in show this week. “It’s one ...Head programmer looking for “PBS twist” in scripted drama on Civil War
PBS is commissioning a second scripted drama, Chief Programming Executive Beth Hoppe told Current at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour this ...
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