Tag: WTTW
Monday roundup: WTTW names center for trustee, 2-Toy rolls on, Matter sets Demo Day
• WTTW announced a major gift Monday from the family of Renée Crown, board vice chair of licensee Window to the World ...World Channel premieres Local USA, showcasing pubTV stories nationwide
Local USA, a 13-part documentary series focusing on “story, character, region and place,” premieres today on the World Channel. The half-hour series, a co-production ...PubTV stations move to pitch sustainer gifts during pledge
“Sustainers,” as this increasingly commonplace breed of member is called, renew at higher rates than those responding to traditional pledge pitches.Roger Ebert, film critic and pubTV icon, dead at 70
Roger Ebert, the legendary film critic who got his television start on Chicago PBS station WTTW, died April 4 after a long ...WTTW captures seven Midwest Emmys, Wisconsin Public TV wins a pair
The Chicago station topped several program categories, and its staff took awards for individual achievements in television crafts. Architect Michael Graves: A Grand Tour ...Debate series launched on pubradio comes to PBS
Intelligence Squared U.S., the nonpartisan public policy debate series airing on public radio and some public TV stations, is coming to PBS Plus in ...NPR hires two reporters, WXXI news director rappels down 21 stories, and more…
Leila Fadel, Cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post, signs on as NPR’s Cairo-based correspondent in July. She covered the Iraq War for almost ...Court would let public stations sell candidate and issues ads
No, there won’t be any windfall of Obama and Romney Super PAC gazillions for public stations this year. By a 2–1 vote, ...News coop for Chicago: print, online, on WTTW
A multimedia news organization committed to public service journalism will begin producing regional coverage of the Chicago area and Illinois for The New ...Bill McCarter, chief exec of independent-minded WTTW/WFMT, Chicago
Bill McCarter, who headed Chicago’s WTTW for 27 years before retiring in 1998, died of complications from cancer April 21. He was ...FCC to WTTW: too much of that funky stuff
WTTW and PBS say they’re baffled by the FCC’s proposal to fine the Chicago station $5,000 for airing four underwriting spots, including ...FCC notice to WTTW of fines for underwriting violations, 1997
In 1997, the FCC fined Chicago public TV station WTTW for violating commission standards for underwriting credits (Current coverage). More than two years ...
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