Tag: Television programs
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Posted in Current‘s reader forum, DirectCurrent, by Mark Jeffries on April 22, 2009 at 12:55pm In the Current article on spring fundraising and pledge ...In crisis, NBR gets calmly down to business
“Investments are not a sport, not a game, not entertainment,” says NBR co-anchor Susie Gharib, echoing the mantra of the most resolutely serious ...Burns pipeline to pump despite GM withdrawal
Ken Burns will proceed with his films as planned despite General Motors’ withdrawal as a major sponsor, according to Washington’s WETA, Burns’ ...This explorer bio may be a cartoon, but not a simple-minded one
Christopher expects that the animation will attract young viewers. Moreover, it enabled him to visualize a Native American parable that figured in ...Latino producers to PBS: Diversity data ‘incomplete and often anecdotal’
The Diversity Committee of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers sent this letter to PBS about its November 2008 Report on ...OPB’s ‘Silent Invasion’ doc/outreach project
Katy June-Friesen talks with talks with Oregon Public Broadcasting producer Ed Jahn about the documentary Silent Invasion, which won a duPont-Columbia University Award last ...Worldcasts: Long-overdue broadening of news horizons
Anyone who watched, say, the ABC World News in late November and early December would have known that a tiny band of terrorists had ...‘Electric Company’ returns, Naomi still missing
A new Electric Company, based on that 1970s PBS hit, premieres Jan. 19.Surge of channels, people meter chaos depress PBS ratings
There is no shortage of factors to explain why public TV ratings have kept sliding. For one, the proportion of viewers with ...Producer’s own mentor: first in a series
Lindsey is embarking on a vast project to collect elders’ knowledge from around the world — their methods of predicting future events, ...Here I am, your special PBS Kids Island (come to me, come to me)
PBS Kids Island, an online amusement park located on the Raising Readers website (www.readytolearnreading.org), offers learning games created by producers of Super Why!, ...KCET to rep BBC newscast, WLIW creating competitor
The BBC has signed a new distributor for the nightly half-hour BBC World News newscast for public TV stations — KCET in Los Angeles. ...Rich and rare: docs that unfold over decades
If you stand quite rightly in awe at Michael Apted’s 49 Up, which aired on P.O.V. [in October 2007], you’re likely to be cheered by ...Latino critics of The War seek assurance from PBS, WETA
Advocacy groups protesting Ken Burns’ upcoming World War II doc asked PBS and WETA in Washington, D.C., Aug. 20 [2007] for assurance ...Masterpiece to be umbrella for 3 strands
Suspecting that Masterpiece Theatre is showing its age after 36 seasons — an eon in TV years — the program’s producers at Boston’s WGBH ...
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