Tag: Television programs
WXXI’s web-first series on sculpture project captures drama of artistic process
In a first for the station, Rochester’s WXXI has premiered a series on the Web, following sculptor Albert Paley as he creates ...Stations fear exclusion from show production as PBS shifts strategy
When PBS unveiled its fall slate of primetime programs during its recent conference in Miami Beach, Fla., in May, many of the ...Author of Martha Speaks sues WGBH in dispute over ancillary revenues
The author and illustrator of the book that inspired the PBS Kids series Martha Speaks is claiming that producing station WGBH owes her thousands ...NewsHour closing two offices, dropping 10 positions, according to internal memo
PBS NewsHour is shutting offices in Denver and San Francisco and eliminating several positions at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., Executive Producer Linda Winslow ...Fred Rogers’ production company moves out of WQED
The Fred Rogers Co., the production company that continues to create new PBS Kids series a decade after the death of its ...CPB recognizes Moore, an author and youth advocate, as a pubcasting “Thought Leader”
Wes Moore, the host of Beyond Belief on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and author of the bestseller The Other Wes Moore, won CPB’s Thought Leader Award, ...Luoma, Cornwell recognized for achievements in local scheduling
In a citation honoring Maine Public TV’s Kelly Luoma as the Charles Impaglia Programmer of the Year, PTPA lauded her “for tirelessly ...PBS buys more of what works in primetime
As public television’s chief program exec and top producers unveiled highlights of the fall 2013 primetime schedule at the PBS Annual Meeting ...WXXI ends 54-year run of Assignment: The World due to lack of funding
Assignment: The World, the longest-running social-studies instructional TV program in the country, broadcast its last episode May 23. WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., which produced ...NJTV will air new six-part American Songbook series this fall
New Jersey Television and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) of Newark are partnering on a new six-part cabaret music television ...Arizona PBS’s Eight will promote the miniseries Latino Americans May 23
Two events at Arizona PBS’s Eight on May 23 will launch promotions tied to the three-part, six-hour documentary series Latino Americans, coming ...Lacy coaxes creative talents to share stories of their lives
The whole idea behind American Masters, the biographical series produced at New York's WNET, was to build a library of America’s cultural history. To ...This Old House follows homeowners still recovering from Superstorm Sandy
PBS will present a special eight-episode series about homeowners struggling to rebuild.“If you can’t make it important, it’s probably not worth doing”
In an extended interview with Current, Frontline creator David Fanning recalls how he came to work at Boston’s WGBH more than three decades ago, ...PBS acquires new British drama to anchor Sunday nights
Aiming to build on its successful strategy to boost viewing on Sunday nights, PBS acquired a new hit drama from the BBC, Last ...
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