PBS’s year-to-date financial results show a net income of $22 million instead of the estimated $100,000 net loss anticipated in its fiscal year 2013 budget, the PBS board of directors heard at their meeting April 9 at headquarters in Arlington, Va.
A decision on adding half-hour Saturday and Sunday editions of the popular news program is not expected before the end of the month.
Sunday’s audience surpassed even the audience for the third season premiere in January, when about 7.9 million viewers tuned in, a 20-year record for PBS.
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In a counterprogramming coup, PBS’s costume drama averages 6.6 million viewers — a mere 102 million fewer than watched the game.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) —Select “Downton Abbey” fans are in for an early viewing treat and bragging rights.Apple said Monday that people in North America who hold iTunes season passes […]
Rivaling broadcast outings, the British import starts its third season with a huge surge — double its previous season and quadruple the typical primetime showing for PBS.
Beth Hoppe, who joined the public broadcaster last year from Discovery Studios, has been promoted to chief programming executive. Former programming head John Wilson, an 18-year veteran of PBS, becomes senior VP of pledge strategy and special projects.
NEW YORK (AP) — Less than three weeks after Superstorm Sandy came ashore on the East Coast, three television networks will offer the chance to relive the experience on the […]
The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honors comedians in Twain’s tradition of satire and social commentary. Past winners include Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg.
The Republican presidential candidate reiterates his desire to eliminate funding for the Public Broadcasting Service if he wins the election in November. He also says that some business regulations are essential. “You can’t have a free market work if you don’t have regulation,” he said.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS’ “Masterpiece” drama showcase is getting a fashionable new supporter. The public TV program said Monday that the Ralph Lauren Corp. will become a national sponsor, […]
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, an animated show built around the fictional young offspring of Rogers’s original puppet characters, including Daniel Striped Tiger, is aimed at a narrow demographic, 2-to-4-year-olds. It starts today and will air twice daily on most PBS stations.
Paula Derger: “Elimination of funding would have almost no impact on the nation’s debt. Yet the loss to the American public would be devastating.”
The Republican presidential candidate says: “There are programs I would eliminate … the Amtrak subsidy, the PBS subsidy, the subsidy for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities. Some of these things, like those endowment efforts and PBS I very much appreciate and like what they do in many cases, but I just think they have to strand on their own rather than receiving money borrowed from other countries, as our government does on their behalf.”
CBS Grabs Brand Of The Year Among Nets
CBS has taken a top brand ranking among broadcast networks, according to a new poll. Perhaps helped by Downton Abbey, PBS topped ABC and NBC to finish second for “brand of the year.”
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — PBS President Paula Kerger said Saturday the decision to remove Fred Willard as narrator of the new public TV series “Market Warriors” had to be […]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – PBS says a Ken Burns documentary on the Roosevelt family is in the works for 2014. “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History” is a seven-part documentary […]
Paula Kerger said Saturday that a loss of federal dollars “would eliminate public broadcasting in areas I know it’s tremendously used.”
The public television station that produces a show narrated by Fred Willard says it is ending the actor’s work on the series after his arrest on suspicion of a lewd […]
John Goberman Leaving ‘Lincoln Center’
When you think of the very latest in motion-image technology, you might think of laser projection, glasses-free stereoscopic-3D, digital surround sound, high-dynamic-range imaging, and the like. Would you believe that one man dealt with all of that in the 1970s? And that he was trained as an orchestra cello player?
Several websites have published articles recently about how journalists are using Pinterest. But none of these offers data-based analyses that measure whether newsrooms are using Pinterest to engage effectively with readers.
Three dozen general managers have coalesced around a proposal by PBS Interactive chief Jason Seiken to jumpstart low-cost local video production at public TV stations.
Summer isn’t just cable’s season anymore. Broadcast networks also are stepping up, offering a mix of reality shows with a few scripted series. And PBS is making strides, too.
Call the Midwife, a six-part series set in 1950s London that was a hit in Britain, will kick off PBS’ new season at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30, it was announced Tuesday. There’s plenty of Americana as well on public television’s fall schedule, including general election coverage and documentaries on two devastating chapters of U.S. history.
NEW YORK (AP) — PBS said Wednesday it is preparing a six-hour documentary series on the history of Latinos in the United States, set to air in the fall of […]
