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public TV and radio in the United States

Selected articles
(More to be posted)

2006 Video indies' association, AIVF, closes its doors.

Mark Lewis: This producer's not chicken to tackle domestic beasts

Contrasting views in study for CPB — radio indie v. program buyer: Who's that freak across the table?

The producers of A Lion in the House knew the subject all too well: With eyes and heart wide open

2005 Tensions, triumphs in Golden State form basis for indies' California series

2004 The Raymonds' camera rolls and the closet door opens again

Major project launched by an indie: StoryCorps to hit the road, collecting intimate tales

Indies on DVDs: Renters see docs on disc through Netflix window

Larry Hall, advocate for independent producers, dies at 74.

2003 Public Radio Exchange, an online showcase for radio indies, begins operation.

2002 "Take down the walls and let some light in!" writes indie Danny Schechter, who struggled with public TV for broadcast of the series South Africa Now and Rights & Wrongs.

Schechter is one of two indies who produce docs on the Florida election mess of 2000. One is cool and carried, his is hot and not.

After Henry Hampton's death, his company falters and a new team finishes his last series, This Far by Faith.

Current Q&A with ITVS Director Sally Jo Fifer.

Indies Thomas Boyd and Ann Sternberg produce Rock 'n' Roots.

2001 Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker dare to produce People Like Us, with a subject as touchy as it is funny.

A master of observational docs: Wiseman at work in Idaho state legislature

Sally Jo Fifer hired to head ITVS, succeeding the late James Yee.

Radio indie David Isay bypasses pubradio's gatekeepers with The Execution Tapes.

Isay profiled. [Isay's Yiddish Radio Project, 2002.]

Independents' complaints resonate with new president of PBS, Pat Mitchell, a onetime indie.

Rob Gardner profiled.

2000 Will PBS adopt video diaries as a regular genre? ITVS veteran Ellen Schneider tries unsuccessfully to establish Right Here, Right Now. [Schneider proposes a similar series in 1995 commentary.]

John Forde develops a media literacy series, Mental Engineering, on a shoestring.

Radio College website aims to be an "on ramp" for indie radio producers.

1999 World Link TV, a satellite channel co-founded by ITVS, is chosen to air on the DirecTV DBS service. [Earlier article.]

Indies — the Kitchen Sisters and Jay Allison — develop a successful recurring feature on NPR, Lost and Found Sound. [They develop a World Trade Center memorial, 2002.]

Race, love and family: Jennifer Fox's epic: what divides us, what unites us.

Code of Fair Practices for Working with Freelance Radio Producers, published by Association of Independents in Radio and Producers' Advocacy Group.

1998 David Sutherland, an indie working with Frontline, produces one of PBS's most appreciated observational docs, The Farmer's Wife.

Orlando Bagwell produces a history of slavery. [Bagwell profiled, 1994.]

Indies produce most segments of WNET's City Arts and City Life series.

Fred Wiseman's novelistic samplings of reality

1997 Public TV's lobbying organization seeks to free CPB of mandate to fund ITVS.

A rare indie series that's politically conservative: National Desk. [In 1999, the show takes on feminism.]

Though it's produced by the major pubradio station in Chicago, Ira Glass's This American Life became a prominent venue for independents.

1996 Despite Hollywood stars and fervent fans, the independently produced children's series Rabbit Ears Radio falls into financial distress.

1995 Tony Kahn: a son looks back on his father's blacklisting.

1994 The producers of Hoop Dreams have a long haul to the small screen.

Audio producer Dmae Roberts profiled.

1993 Complaint against program forces presenting station to take sides: Review finds factual flaws in The Liberators

Henry Hampton, producer of Eyes on the Prize, profiled. [Obituary, 1998]

Independently produced Music from the Hearts of Space celebrates its 10th anniversary.

1992 Some indies object as PBS moves to sign up home-video rights for more programming.

1991 ITVS's first director, John Schott, announces its first round of grants.

What happened when two public TV managers risked airing Tongues Untied. [Other public TV execs discuss the show in 1992.]

By its fifth season, P.O.V. had become a regular part of viewers' summers.

PBS and P.O.V. drop a hot potato, Stop the Church, an indie doc featuring a clash between gay activists and the Catholic Church. Some stations air it anyway.

Marlon Riggs tells why he made the expressionistic doc Tongues Untied about a class of people that most Americans would like to "erase."

Many stations reject or delay airing Riggs' Tongues Untied.

1989 Text, ITVS Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws.

Three Larrys were at the heart of lobbying to put ITVS into law.

CPB and ITVS negotiate who will pay expenses to run ITVS office.

CPB and independents agree on first ITVS Board members.

1988 Congress mandates creation of ITVS as part of a multiyear bill reauthorizing federal support for CPB.

House committee approves amendment that will create ITVS.

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