Tag: Television programs
Popularity of ‘Downton’ creates embarrassment of riches in ‘Masterpiece’ slot
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The success of Downton Abbey, whose fifth season has been set for Jan. 4, has created a novel problem for PBS: ...With on-demand streaming, PBS will enable premiere-week bingeing on Burns’s Roosevelts
In a session with TV critics, PBS's Kerger said the streaming experiment will "accommodate a wide range of viewing habits."PBS press tour highlights Downton, Nas on Finding Your Roots
The stars of Downton Abbey aren’t the only luminaries whom journalists will chat with during PBS’s portion of the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour ...BBC cuts hundreds of jobs, increases funding for World Service
The pubcaster is restructuring its news division, with little effect on programs airing on stateside pubmedia.Final Poirot episodes reach U.S. via on-demand service
Three of the five final episodes in the Hercule Poirot detective series, a longtime favorite on Masterpiece Mystery!, will debut in the U.S. next ...June public television pledge drives up 13.5 percent from last year
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Skills from American Public Television was among the shows generating cash for stations.Frontline receives nearly $6 million in two grants
Frontline, public television’s investigative news showcase, announced two major donations Wednesday, including the largest grant from individuals in its 30-year history. Most of ...WETA to create subsidiary for transfer of PBS NewsHour ownership
WETA’s board of trustees unanimously authorized the transfer, which does not involve any cash, at a June 17 meeting in Arlington, Va.Five New York pubcasters team up for CPB-backed regional newsroom
Five public media stations in New York will create a regional newsroom with a $375,000 grant from CPB, announced today. The two-year backing will support ...Pubcasters pick up 32 national Murrow Awards
Public broadcasting outlets and nonprofit news organizations took 32 of the 98 national Edward R. Murrow Awards presented this year by the ...With TV Takeover, TPT hands over broadcast keys to local arts groups
To attract young viewers, Twin Cities Public Television is experimenting with a new kind of show: the “TV party.”CPB backs new episodes of Hinojosa’s America By The Numbers
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting awarded an $850,000 grant for eight new half-hour episodes of America By The Numbers, a series featuring journalist Maria Hinojosa ...Kickstarter propels Reading Rainbow partnership into digital future
LeVar Burton’s Kickstarter campaign to fund a digital rebirth of Reading Rainbow promises to reconnect classrooms with the pubTV brand and may inspire a ...PubTV doc Little League: A History celebrates 75 summers of iconic pastime
A public television documentary about Little League Baseball is turning into a fitting Independence Day scheduling choice for programmers.Pubcasting programs spark anthology of ‘Poetic Responses’
While public broadcasting covers poets and their work, a new anthology may be the first book of poems inspired by public media ...
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