Tag: Television programs
Job description: watch your step, make magic
PBS’s chief program executive is a high-profile job that comes with a salary cap, a heavy workload and no excess of resources. ...How did ‘The Buccaneers’ end up with such a happy ending?
Fifty-seven years ago, in her last novel, Edith Wharton told the story of The Buccaneers — a platoon of lovely American girls invading England, ...Rock ’n roll pilgrimage
Admired series disappears into copyright limbo Followup, 2008 The series contained so many musical clips that the producers apparently didn’t want to ...What did Barney earn, and why didn’t PBS get more?
Of all the facts, half-truths and distortions used by public broadcasting's opponents in the ongoing contest to redefine the field's public image, ...Lawson, Grant depart PBS; program direction unclear
“When you basically cut the legs out under the gang that’s gotten you to this point, this has to mean something,” said a ...Arts on public television: signatures of past, present and generations to come
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein wowed a lunchtime audience at the Public Television Annual Meeting in June 1994 with her personal testimonial ...Goal for Ready to Learn: engage kids and parents
On July 11, PBS begins beaming its long-anticipated Ready to Learn service to 11 pilot stations, embarking on what planners acknowledge will ...FDR defenders enlist TV critics to refute Holocaust film
Weeks before the debut of an American Experience film on the U.S. response to the Holocaust, defenders of President Franklin Roosevelt undertook a quiet ...Ervin Duggan hired from FCC to lead PBS
As PBS’s fourth president, FCC member Ervin S. Duggan, 54, will take the lead of public TV at a time when momentous ...Does public TV get a big enough piece of Barney?
While earning the adulation of the nation's toddlers, the six-foot dinosaur with his own PBS show has received an adverse response from ...Review finds factual flaws in ‘The Liberators’
After a seven-month investigation of the factual accuracy of ”Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II,” WNET announced Sept. 7, ...Advocates of free time for candidates are many — those who try it are few
Though the 1988 campaign prompted many calls for television networks to let candidates talk directly to the voters, candidates again this season ...Now independent producers have role in funding
Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced this week its first round of 25 grants to independent TV producers. The projects will bring to the ...Frontline: an ‘essential’ mechanism for telling serious stories
Frontline sometimes comes on like a multimedia prosecutor, revealing the evidence in pictures, voices and logic, and driving toward a conclusion. It’s usually ...ITVS issues first round of grants
...The announcement is a landmark in a long struggle for public TV producers outside of stations to gain an official place in ...
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