Tag: WGBH
Donation analysis project aims to fill public TV’s development void
Contributor Development Partnership launches as a data-driven effort to identify and share best practices in public media fundraising.Streamy Awards for 2009
The Secret Life of Scientists, produced by Seftel Productions for WGBH’s Nova unit, won a Streamy The online series on PBS.org was judged the best ...Fanning on a ‘big bang’ moment for Frontline: bringing online depth to reporting
David Fanning, e.p. of Frontline, discussed the WGBH program’s evolving use of the Web Aug. 23, 2010, in accepting the Goldsmith Career Award ...David Fanning’s Loper Lecture, 2009
David Fanning, the founding executive producer of PBS’s Frontline series, gave this talk in 2009 as the annual James L. Loper Lecture in ...Forum Network: Low-profile lecture outlet gets national backing
Seven years after WGBH began its on-demand video archive of the often-stellar lectures and cultural events of the Boston area, it’s getting ...Public Interactive repositioned as online utility for the system
Two initiatives led by NPR will soon offer station websites greater automated handling of editorial content and national sales of underwriting to ...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 ...Buster to visit gay moms on some public TV channels
At least five public TV stations have pledged to air a controversial episode of Postcards from Buster, dropped last week by PBS, that features ...Secretary of Education objects to Postcards from Buster ‘two moms’ episode, 2005
Margaret Spellings, secretary of education in George W. Bush’s administration, complained to PBS in 2005 about an episode of the animated Postcards from ...PBS again taps viewer curiosity about old things
A spin-off of Antiques Roadshow, PBS’s most popular series, will visit memorable guests from past installments and guide viewers through the ins and outs ...PBS loses biggest underwriter as it considers 30-second credits
ExxonMobil will stop underwriting Masterpiece Theatre after spring 2004, the oil company announced Dec. 13. It has spent more than $250 million on MT and ...‘What we try to do . . . is say something new’
“The best of American television can be traced to this one man,” said NovaExecutive Producer Paula Apsell, referring to her boss and the ...‘Our place is to offer an alternative for those who still want to learn’
We should not be surprised that most of television enters our people and our body politic, not as food for thought, but ...Series founder Stanford Calderwood dies
Stanford Calderwood, who served only a few months as president of WGBH, Boston, but initiated one of its most enduring franchises, Masterpiece Theatre, died ...Boxer KO’s naturalist in contest for May 14
Programmers at PBS and at a key group of stations put themselves on a collision course when they scheduled two different programs ...
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