Tag: WNET
Hopes of viewers and producers invested in Need to Know
Ten weeks before the air date of Need to Know, WNET announced the executive producer. Seven weeks before, the producing station named the co-anchors. ...‘Sloppiness,’ not wrongdoing, led to probe, says WNET chair
The leadership of WNET said a federal investigation into the station’s use of federal grants totaling almost $13 million is wrapping up, ...‘Sloppiness,’ not wrongdoing, led to probe, says WNET chair
The leadership of WNET said a federal investigation into the station’s use of federal grants totaling almost $13 million is wrapping up, ...Worldcasts: Long-overdue broadening of news horizons
Anyone who watched, say, the ABC World News in late November and early December would have known that a tiny band of terrorists had ...James Day, 89
He put San Francisco’s KQED on the air in 1954 — with Jon Rice, the station’s legendary first program director — and ...Ex-NBC news exec will manage WNET
Neal Shapiro, president of NBC News until 16 months ago, will succeed William Baker as president and c.e.o. of New York’s WNET. ...Autonomy, mutual benefit seen by new N.Y. partners
Now they’re sister stations WNET WLIW Cume households* 3.1 mil. 2.1 mil. Annual spending $180 mil. $14 mil. Employees (approx.) 450 80** Members 350,000 < 50,000 *Nielsen cume audiences are for one week in November. **WLIW employees ...Tower collapse takes engineer, pubcast signals
When terrorists brought down the World Trade Center in an imploding, crumbling crash, they not only destroyed New York City’s highest buildings ...Fans’ demand prompts revival of sci-fi classic
WNET, dastardly villain in a two-decade scheme to deprive science-fiction buffs of the coolest public TV program of all time, this ...‘Great Performances’ team brought stage virtuosos into the videoscape
Twenty-five years ago this week, public TV first aired Great Performances, its major performing arts showcase. And just in time for the anniversary, CPB ...Revisiting Brideshead Revisited
You may have recently reacquainted yourself with this classic public TV mini-series. The American Program Service and 20 stations have brought it ...Review finds factual flaws in ‘The Liberators’
After a seven-month investigation of the factual accuracy of ”Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II,” WNET announced Sept. 7, ...The return of the Louds: WNET to air 1973 film
After 17 years in blissful obscurity, the Loud family is about to be put back into the public television fish bowl. WNET-TV ...
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