Tag: Television programs
Burns to produce cancer doc for public TV
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is adapting a book about cancer into a six-hour series for public TV, reports the New York Times. The project ...PBS wades into over the top content streaming with new Roku apps
As of May 8, owners of Roku Internet streaming TV set-top boxes gained access to the first-ever curated collection of PBS shows ...APT, PBS partner to offer Moyers & Company for viewing on COVE
Moyers & Company has become the first American Public Television-distributed program to be presented on the PBS COVE online video player and PBS mobile ...All-Star Orchestra to bring classical masterworks to WNET, APT
The All-Star Orchestra, made up of top professional musicians from across the country, will produce eight pubTV programs of classical masterworks. The ...Facing financial woes, KCETLink to focus on ‘transmedia’
KCETLink laid off 22 full-time employees April 19, signaling another change of course in the Los Angeles public media organization's search for ...Boston audience plays along with High School Quiz Show
Audiences of WGBH’s High School Quiz Show can now play against Massachusetts whiz kids through an online game that launched early this month. The ...KCETLink’s Marcus exits, recalling ‘great run’ with SoCal Connected
Bret Marcus, the KCET exec who led production of the station’s acclaimed local news series SoCal Connected, is among the 22 employees riffed in the ...KCETLink lays off 22 in reorganization, shifts priority to transmedia content
KCETLink, the independent pubmedia organization created through merger six months ago between pubcaster KCET in Los Angeles and national satellite programmer Link ...Content co-op puts arts center stage
Public television stations are ramping up production of local arts and culture programming through an initiative launched last September by WNET in ...WGBH’s Greater Boston goes nationwide on World Channel with bombing coverage
Tonight’s special edition of Greater Boston from WGBH, focused on the shocking bomb blasts at Monday’s Boston Marathon, will be distributed nationally on the ...Last season of NBC’s The Office welcomes pubcaster WVIA as a co-star
WVIA, the PBS member station for the Scranton, Pa., area, is a guest star in the final season of the hit NBC ...Benefits to multicasting pledge: new and lapsed donors respond
After 16 months on the air, WQED-TV’s all-pledge multicast Showcase channel is steadily bringing in donations of around $16,000 a month for ...PBS FY14 draft budget has $11M content hike, no dues increase, thanks to income influx
PBS’s year-to-date financial results show a net income of $22 million instead of the estimated $100,000 net loss anticipated in its fiscal ...New metasite showcases Localore projects
The Association of Independents in Radio will launch a metasite April 22 that combines its 10 Localore multimedia projects on a single ...Scarce funding limits public media’s response to gun debate
The mass shootings last year in Colorado, Wisconsin and Connecticut reawakened Americans to recurring tragedies of gun violence and rekindled a national ...
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