Facing financial woes, KCETLink to focus on ‘transmedia’
Posted: May, 01, 2013
By Dru Sefton and Ben Mook
Television programs
“If you can’t make it important, it’s probably not worth doing”
Posted: May, 17, 2013
Interview by Karen Everhart and Dru Sefton
PBS acquires new British drama to anchor Sunday nights
Posted: May, 15, 2013
By Dru Sefton
PBS wades into over the top content streaming with new Roku apps
Posted: May, 09, 2013
By Ben Mook
Pipeline 2013
Posted: October, 09, 2012
Compiled by Theodore Fischer
Buster to visit gay moms on some pubTV channels
Posted: January 31, 2005At least five public TV stations have pledged to air a controversial episode of Postcards from Buster, dropped last week by PBS, that features two families headed by lesbian parents—despite strenuous objections by the nation’s new secretary of education, whose … Continue reading
Is Bill Moyers the last of a breed or was he the first?
Posted: November 15, 2004When Bill Moyers signs off after the Dec. 17 [2004] broadcast of Now with Bill Moyers, he will leave behind one of the longest and most productive careers in the history of public television.He came to PBS in 1971, the … Continue reading
PBS again taps viewer curiosity about old things
Posted: July 26, 2004A spin-off of Antiques Roadshow, PBS’s most popular series, will visit memorable guests from past installments and guide viewers through the ins and outs of the antiques market. Antiques Roadshow FYI debuts early in 2005 as a half-hour weekly magazine … Continue reading
Appalachia: 3 video profiles in full relief
Posted: June 7, 2004Thoughts of Appalachia may stir up visions of either hillbilly backwoods or quaint Edens, but both miss the complicated truth illuminated by three documentaries coming to public TV. The docs diverge in their depictions of the mountain region Continue reading
As cume slips, duo aims to keep PBS ‘relevant’
Posted: April 26, 2004For the past four years under PBS President Pat Mitchell, the network has had two chief program executives — at headquarters in Alexandria, Va., John Wilson, a veteran public TV programmer who came to PBS a decade ago from KAET … Continue reading
Wiseman at work in Idaho state legislature
Posted: February 23, 2004The Idaho Legislature is the subject of Frederick Wiseman’s next cinema verite documentary. Starting with his controversial film Titicut Follies in 1967, Wiseman has filmed the day-to-day workings of American places and institutions — public housing developments, high schools and … Continue reading
Worlds away from Rukeyser’s Wall Street
Posted: December 1, 2003Wall Street Week with Fortune, the PBS series that reinvented itself last year after a messy split with original host Louis Rukeyser, is setting itself further apart from its progenitor. The program sharpened its reporting this fall on the scandal-plagued … Continue reading