WXXI's web-first series on sculpture project captures drama of artistic process
Posted: June, 14, 2013
By Dru Sefton
Television programs
Stations fear exclusion from show production as PBS shifts strategy
Posted: June, 13, 2013
By Elizabeth Jensen
Author of Martha Speaks sues WGBH in dispute over ancillary revenues
Posted: June, 12, 2013
By Ben Mook
This Old House follows homeowners still recovering from Superstorm Sandy
Posted: May, 20, 2013
By Dru Sefton
PBS acquires new British drama to anchor Sunday nights
Posted: May, 15, 2013
By Dru Sefton
Pipeline 2013
Posted: October, 09, 2012
Compiled by Theodore Fischer
Boston audience plays along with High School Quiz Show
Posted: May 1, 2013Audiences of WGBH’s High School Quiz Show can now play against Massachusetts whiz kids through an online game that launched early this month. The Boston station’s digital team developed a browser-based game allowing viewers to play along during broadcasts of … Continue reading
KCETLink’s Marcus exits, recalling ‘great run’ with SoCal Connected
Posted: April 23, 2013Bret Marcus, the KCET exec who led production of the station’s acclaimed local news series SoCal Connected, is among the 22 employees riffed in the layoffs announced last week by KCETLink, the new public media outlet formed in a merger of the … Continue reading
KCETLink lays off 22 in reorganization, shifts priority to transmedia content
Posted: April 19, 2013KCETLink, the independent pubmedia organization created through merger six months ago between pubcaster KCET in Los Angeles and national satellite programmer Link TV, today announced 22 layoffs as a result of a reorganization. Spokesperson Ariel Carpenter told Current that the … Continue reading
Content co-op puts arts center stage
Posted: April 19, 2013Public television stations are ramping up production of local arts and culture programming through an initiative launched last September by WNET in New York and the Major Market Group, an affinity organization for stations serving the largest television markets. Continue reading
WGBH’s Greater Boston goes nationwide on World Channel with bombing coverage
Posted: April 16, 2013Tonight’s special edition of Greater Boston from WGBH, focused on the shocking bomb blasts at Monday’s Boston Marathon, will be distributed nationally on the World Channel, the public TV multicast service produced by WGBH and distributed by American Public Television. … Continue reading
Last season of NBC’s The Office welcomes pubcaster WVIA as a co-star
Posted: April 12, 2013WVIA, the PBS member station for the Scranton, Pa., area, is a guest star in the final season of the hit NBC sitcom The Office. The series, based on a BBC show of the same name, follows the quirky lives … Continue reading
Benefits to multicasting pledge: new and lapsed donors respond
Posted: April 11, 2013After 16 months on the air, WQED-TV’s all-pledge multicast Showcase channel is steadily bringing in donations of around $16,000 a month for the Pittsburgh station. That may not sound that impressive, considering WQED receives an average of $16,675 from airing just one day of pledge programming on its primary broadcast signal. But WQED officials say the revenues, and the benefits, are adding up. Continue reading