Tag: Television programs
Pledge Pipeline, 2011-12
Current‘s first Pledge Pipeline previews 36 shows heading to public TV on-air membership drives in December 2011, March 2012 and beyond. Producers and ...PBSd venture and MHz project aim to export public television
Television viewers in Great Britain, the Middle East, Russia and India could soon be watching American public TV shows, if two initiatives ...Puerto Rican station drops PBS shows
Puerto Rico’s government-controlled WIPR dropped its PBS membership on July 1 — the fourth member station to quit this year. Puerto Rico TV, ...Arts try out for PBS slot on Fridays
With a nod to mission — and a bid for more major donors — PBS is spotlighting the arts for nine weeks ...Changes at Maine documentary school worry its devoted alumni
The departure of the entire four-person faculty from Maine’s small but influential Salt Institute for Documentary Studies has caused concern among the ...Photographer turns lens on himself for survival story
John Kaplan was scared. He’d been diagnosed with not one but two types of lymphoma, and chemotherapy had begun to ravage his ...Flow plan would push spots deeper into PBS hours
The traditional pledge-drive mantra brags about a piece of public television’s ancestral DNA: “PBS — your home for quality, uninterrupted programming.” So the ...With projects on hold, PBS hunts spendable cash, tweaks primetime schedule
Don’t tell the county fire marshal, but the president of PBS keeps working while her staff evacuates the building in deference to ...Lehrer hands off anchor role to reporting team
Jim Lehrer, who has reported the news of the day for more than 50 years, became part of it May 12 when ...Public television, 50, dies of apprehensive innocuity
Whenever public broadcasting is threatened by hostile politicians, the conventional wisdom is to circle the wagons and fire back. As a member ...Escape of the Grannies
... The two Grannies and their tour group of 14 were, for the moment, safely ensconced in comfortable floating quarters as mobs ...Newman’s own way: ‘speak up and do things’
In June 2007, when conservative publisher Rupert Murdoch purchased the venerable Wall Street Journal, actor and philanthropist Paul Newman was upset. Wary of Murdoch’s ...Next Avenue will use Web to super-serve a (slightly) younger PBS audience
When Jim Pagliarini and Judy Diaz say public TV should pay more attention to a younger audience, they’re not thinking of viewers ...At the Movies returns in 2011 with new cast, Ebert producing
Renowned movie critic Roger Ebert, who literally owns the trademarked thumbs-up/thumbs-down gesture, is returning to public TV, where he started his on-air ...Instructional TV sales exec moves to NBR’s bigger league
In his career in the media niche of instructional television, Mykalai Kontilai worked with several respected names in public broadcasting as well ...
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