Programs/Content
Our public TV–watching parties continue
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We supply the iconic public TV shows, you bring your questions — and the snacks.
Programs/Content
View our online screening of William F. Buckley’s ‘Firing Line’
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With excerpts and interviews, we looked back at the influential public affairs show.
Programs/Content
‘Tongues Untied’: a debate on purpose and courage
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The film wasn’t explicitly on the agenda for the first of two open-mike sessions at the Public Television Annual Meeting June 23, but station reps could hardly talk about anything else.
Programs/Content
Ottinger and Kobin: two broadcast managers who stood up for diversity of viewpoints
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Two controversies put public TV general managers to the test: How far would they extend their necks for the principle that public broadcasters should present diverse viewpoints and controversies on the air?
Programs/Content
Tongues re-tied? Filmmaker Marlon Riggs speaks for a group mainstream America would prefer to ‘erase’
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“‘Tongues Untied’ was motivated by a singular imperative: to shatter America’s brutalizing silence around matters of sexual and racial difference. Yet despite a concerted smear and censorship campaign, perhaps even because of it, this work achieved its aim.”
POV
Many stations nix or delay film about black gay men
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At least 17 major stations have opted not to air “Tongues Untied.”