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  • September 2008

    • PBS Draws Curtain on Mr. Rogers

      Chicago Tribune  |  Sep 1, 08 5:53 PM CDT

      PBS Draws Curtain on Mr. Rogers

      (Newser) - Today is not a beautiful day in Mister Rogers' neighborhood. The show has aired for the last time on most PBS stations, making way for newer programs with higher ratings, the Chicago Tribune reports. Loyal fans have created a website and Facebook group to try to save the reassuring cardigan-clad friend who teaches kids about what one fan calls "clumsy, awkward, uncomfortable real life." More »

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      TV ratings  • TV shows  • PBS  • nostalgia

    • Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 1, 08 9:33 AM CDT

      Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

      (Newser) - The Democratic Convention made it official, writes Scott Collilns in the Los Angeles Times: The broadcast networks have passed the political torch to the cable networks. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC not only delivered “wall to wall coverage” compared to the broadcast nets' paltry hour of nightly programming. Their ratings soared, while the networks' "stank." More »

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      Democratic National Convention  • NBC  • Republican National Convention  • cable TV  • Fox News  • CNN  • MSNBC  • ABC News  • broadcasting  • CBS News  • PBS

  • August 2008
  • April 2008

    • Car Talk Bros Get Animated, Dis Gas-Guzzling Heaps

      Newsweek  |  Apr 20, 08 4:50 AM CDT

      Car Talk Bros Get Animated, Dis Gas-Guzzling Heaps

      (Newser) - NPR’s chuckling Car Talk guys Tom and Ray Magliozzi are about to become even more animated—with a new cartoon series of themselves on PBS. But their view on the heaps they've helped drivers patch up for the past 30 years isn't so funny, Newsweek reports. Click and Clack's other new PBS project is a Nova special packed with alarming statistics about cars' devastating impact on the environment. More »

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      television  • gas  • hybrid car  • green energy  • vehicle emissions  • PBS  • auto  • mpg  • NPR

    • Is That You, Samantha?

      New York Daily News  |  Apr 17, 08 6:55 PM CDT

      Is That You, Samantha?

      (Newser) - Kim Cattrall had to pull a quick-change to start filming the Sex and the City movie: she’d just come off the set of a PBS film in which she played the buttoned-up wife of Rudyard Kipling, the New York Daily News reports. “It was definitely a challenging transition” says the actress, best known for her portrayal of unfettered cougar Samantha Jones. More »

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      HBO  • Sex and the City  • Kim Cattrall  • PBS  • Daniel Radcliffe

  • September 2007

    • Burns' War Epic Starts Tomorrow

      Seattle Times  |  Sep 22, 07 4:00 PM CDT

      Burns' War Epic Starts Tomorrow

      (Newser) - After 7 years and $13 million, Ken Burns' historical documentary The War will start airing tomorrow on PBS. The film centers on people rather than politics or weaponry, the Seattle Times reports: Celebrities and guns can "distract you from an experience of war, of what it was like to be in that war," says Burns, who likes "to see the larger, more complicated thing." More »

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      war  • soldier  • World War II  • PBS  • Ken Burns

  • August 2007

    • Battle Brews Over Burns' 'War'

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 26, 07 6:47 PM CDT

      Battle Brews Over Burns' 'War'

      (Newser) - Words that start with “f-” and “s-” or end with “-hole” could spark fighting over a documentary that’s titled, appropriately, “The War.” PBS has a version of Ken Burns’ new film with expletives removed, but some stations want to show the real thing—even during FCC-patrolled hours of 6 AM to 10 PM. Burns calls it “an old jalopy filled with drunken revelers… headed toward a bus full of evangelicals." More »

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      television  • film  • FCC  • PBS  • Ken Burns

  • June 2007

    • Summer of Love Turns 40

      PBS  |  Jun 23, 07 8:58 AM CDT

      Summer of Love Turns 40

      (Newser) - Thousands of young people, dubbed hippies, came to San Franciso beginning in June 1967 to celebrate what became known as the Summer of Love.  And to "turn on, tune in, and drop out."  PBS' American Experience reprises that summer, born of utopian ideals, and ending in housing and food shortages drug problems and sexually transmitted disease. More »

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      San Francisco  • PBS  • hippies

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