Tag: WNET
Veterans’ programming and other assets kick off latest content-sharing platform
Wavelength, now in beta, will grow into a multiuse platform for a range of content topics.Another academic lashes out at ‘School Inc.’ documentary
Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education, calls the documentary “paid propaganda.”Libertarian-leaning ‘School Inc.’ documentary sparks rebuke, defense
An academic calls the program “an unbalanced, journalistically questionable series.”WNET will end production of ‘Religion & Ethics’
The show premiered in September 1997.PBS adopts Apple Pay, enabling one-click donations for stations
Member stations will have access to donor data.WNET film takes viewers inside ‘the talk’ about dealings with police
“It’s like an underground, accepted family conversation, so we thought we would get that conversation out into the world to talk about ...WGBH, WNET Writers Guild members agree to new contract
The deal provides a 3 percent increase in minimum salaries effective July 1, 2016.WNET tests strategy to keep regular viewers watching, and donating, during pledge
The New York station has abandoned traditional on-air campaigns for regularly scheduled pledging four times weekly.On-demand programs prove alluring to PBS station members
Since PBS’s Passport service launched last month, more than 30,000 members have signed up to watch Downton Abbey and other marquee offerings.‘American Masters’ pursues Latino audiences with events, social media efforts
The push centered on a documentary about influential photographer Pedro E. Guerrero.U.S. public media steps up at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The festival has become increasingly important for U.S.–based public media.WNET moves ‘MetroFocus’ newsmagazine from weekly to daily
The public affairs show started four years ago as a web-only production.‘Open Mind’ host courts ‘new generation of thinkers’
Richard Heffner launched the show in 1966 on public TV in New York City. This month, it premiered on the World multicast ...Makers, subjects of PBS’s indie docs bring diversity to public TV, study finds
The study’s authors argued that films such as God Loves Uganda are central to public TV’s mission.With focus on black culture, public TV’s ‘Soul!’ pushed the envelope
“There was always a sense that Soul! was ‘out there’ for public television, that it was doing things and saying things that made ...
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