Development
WNET finds benefits in curtailing campaign-style pledge drives
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The New York public TV station charted growth in viewership and membership revenues after confining on-air fundraising to dedicated time slots.
Programs/Content
Veterans’ programming and other assets kick off latest content-sharing platform
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Wavelength, now in beta, will grow into a multiuse platform for a range of content topics.
Quick Takes
Another academic lashes out at ‘School Inc.’ documentary
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Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education, calls the documentary “paid propaganda.”
Quick Takes
Libertarian-leaning ‘School Inc.’ documentary sparks rebuke, defense
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An academic calls the program “an unbalanced, journalistically questionable series.”
Programs/Content
WNET will end production of ‘Religion & Ethics’
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The show premiered in September 1997.
Development
PBS adopts Apple Pay, enabling one-click donations for stations
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Member stations will have access to donor data.
Programs/Content
WNET film takes viewers inside ‘the talk’ about dealings with police
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“It’s like an underground, accepted family conversation, so we thought we would get that conversation out into the world to talk about it.”
Quick Takes
WGBH, WNET Writers Guild members agree to new contract
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The deal provides a 3 percent increase in minimum salaries effective July 1, 2016.
Development
WNET tests strategy to keep regular viewers watching, and donating, during pledge
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The New York station has abandoned traditional on-air campaigns for regularly scheduled pledging four times weekly.