Posted: January, 23, 2013
By Dru Sefton
Emily Squires, who worked on the first regularly scheduled public television series as well as Sesame Street and Between the Lions, died Nov. 21 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She was 71. Squires won six Daytime Emmys for directing more than two dozen episodes of Sesame Street. Continue reading →
Posted: January, 21, 2013
By Dru Sefton
Wendell D. Garrett, an appraiser on Antiques Roadshow since 1997, died Nov. 14 at a hospice facility in Williston, Vt. He was 83. In addition to his work on Roadshow, Garrett was a retired senior vice president of the prestigious auction house Sotheby’s, and the longtime editor and publisher of The Magazine Antiques, a highly regarded publication in the field. Continue reading →
Posted: January, 21, 2013
By Dru Sefton
Folksy public TV personality Huell Howser, who chronicled California’s unique people and places while retaining his dulcet Tennessee twang, died Jan. 6 in Palm Springs. He was 67. Continue reading →
Posted: December, 19, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
Representatives from Hawaii's public broadcasting networks, as well as the national public broadcasting community, recalled Inouye's years of commitment to the mission of public media. Continue reading →Henry Hampton, the visionary filmmaker who documented the history of the civil rights movement with the landmark PBS series Eyes on the Prize, died Nov. 22 [1998]. He was 58. Hampton recovered from lung cancer some nine years ago, but … Continue reading
The man who led the campaign to make educational radio eligible for federal aid, Jerrold Sandler, died Feb. 24 [1995] at age 64. He apparently had a heart attack after cancer surgery … Continue reading