Tag: BBC
Stations’ joint effort brings streaming BBC shows to websites
A joint effort among PBS and five member stations has created a more efficient way for stations to offer online streams of ...BBC cuts hundreds of jobs, increases funding for World Service
The pubcaster is restructuring its news division, with little effect on programs airing on stateside pubmedia.Recast formula for public TV’s Nature depicts animal lives in human terms
The show's executive producer says it's "become more character-driven and, frankly, more emotional."Thursday roundup: Sweaters for public media, This American Life in the U.K.
Plus: NPR explains its analytics dashboard, and the Knight Foundation's interest in digital storytelling.Thursday roundup: Slate plans for Pesca, Oxford burns PBS, ProPublica sells data
Two NPR alums are gunning for the afternoon listening sweet spot.WKGC dropping NPR affiliation, picking up BBC, APM shows
WKGC in Panama City, Fla., will replace NPR’s newsmagazines with BBC news programs distributed by American Public Media. The station, which is ...On hunt for more midday carriage, APM and BBC alter Newshour clock
Beginning July 1, the BBC’s Newshour will alter its show clock, ceding 4.5 additional minutes from its newscast for local cutaways. The ...PBS taps BBC’s Midwife to boost Sunday viewership
PBS’s yearlong effort to build more audience flow in its primetime schedule moves into new territory with the Sept. 30 U.S. broadcast ...APM displaces PRI as BBC World Service distributor
American Public Media will begin distributing the BBC World Service to U.S. pubradio stations July 1 [2012], ending the British network’s 26-year ...Al Rose, 70
Albert E. Rose, former program director of New Jersey Network and later the program distributor who brought nightly British news programs to ...KCET to rep BBC newscast, WLIW creating competitor
The BBC has signed a new distributor for the nightly half-hour BBC World News newscast for public TV stations — KCET in Los Angeles. ...Return of the Pythons: their PBS premiere
Bring out your dead, practice your silly walks, and steel yourselves for something completely different, yet strangely familiar. PBS is launching a ...Alistair Cooke, 95
Just five weeks after filing his last Letter from America for the BBC, Alistair Cooke died March 30 [2004] at his home in Manhattan. ...An Age of Kings: an import becomes public TV’s first hit
It was public TV's first unqualified national success, a smash hit. Before Masterpiece Theatre, American Playhouse or Hollywood Television Theatre, there was ...Master of talks: Cooke, in his Letter from America
Masterpiece Theatre was a relatively short run for Alistair Cooke, and his intros mere appetizers. For more of Cooke, as he turns 90, sample ...
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