The nonprofit institution that provided significant funding for PBS and NPR is disbanding after nearly 60 years in operation. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — created by Congress in 1967 — ...
The board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1968 to oversee the federal government’s investment in public TV and radio, formally voted ...
PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...
The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely. By Benjamin Mullin Arkansas PBS on Thursday severed ties with ...
No one ever went wrong throwing together a piano, some upbeat songs and a bunch of kids wondering whether the show really must go on. It’s a mainstay of musical theater. It just doesn’t always happen ...
A conservative group yesterday urged the Federal Communications Commission to take licenses away from NPR and PBS stations and let other entities use the spectrum. The request came from the Center for ...
Like many parents, Andrew David keeps a close eye on what programs his 6-year-old son is consuming, often watching shows on YouTube, Netflix, or Disney+ with him or sitting nearby and listening in.
ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will not renew its contract with PBS News Hour West, ending a reporting hub that covered the western U.S. and updated the nightly news ...
Celebrities and member stations alike came out in full force to support We ️ Public Television!, a live telethon produced Nov. 8 at PBS SoCal’s studios in Burbank, Calif. The special features stars of ...
The six-part documentary explores the United States’ founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, examining how these “turned the world upside-down.” It airs nightly through Nov. 21.
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished.” Cultural ...
“I’m most worried about the most vulnerable stations, so I have spent a fair amount of time working with a few others and some key foundations to try to put a corpus of money together that will give ...