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NEWS ABOUT: PBS

PBS stories: 11 news summaries
OPINION

 How to Keep Gourmet Alive 


Oct 5, 09 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cookie and Modern Bride are getting the ax, but it's Conde Nast's shuttering of Gourmet that has floored and disappointed readers and non-readers alike. That includes Fast Company's Kate Rockwood, who shares a few ideas for keeping America's oldest food magazine alive—in some form.
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television • media • travel • Whole Foods • magazine • journalism • PBS • Conde Nast • Gourmet

FOX Network Won't Air Prez Health Care Address

So You Think You Can Dance kicks speech

Sep 7, 09 3:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Fox Broadcast Network won't carry President Obama's congressional address on health-care reform Wednesday, and will instead run So You Think You Can Dance, reports Broadcasting & Cable. The Fox News cable channel will carry the address. The Fox network also skipped Obama's July 22 speech. ABC, CBS, NBC,... More »

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Barack Obama • Congress • NBC • CBS • MSNBC • ABC • Fox News • PBS • So You Think You Can Dance? • Fox network

PBS Bans New Religious Programming

Channels that already carry church services allowed to continue

Jun 17, 09 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - PBS has voted to enforce its longstanding prohibition on sectarian broadcasts and ban its stations from carrying any new religious programming, the Washington Post reports. As a compromise, the few stations that already air church services and religious lectures will be allowed to continue to do so. Religious discussions that... More »

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television • religion • sectarianism • PBS • broadcasting

 PBS Draws Curtain
 on Mr. Rogers

Station makes room for newer shows with higher ratings

Sep 1, 08 5:53 PM CDT
(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... More »

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TV shows • PBS • TV ratings • nostalgia • Fred Rogers • Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

OPINION

Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

Broadcasters cede historic role as political pundits

Sep 1, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

(Newser) - What if the family dog ate alphabet soup by mistake? Susan Meddaugh answered her 7-year-old son’s question by writing a book, Martha Speaks, which has now become a PBS show about the talking dog. PBS hopes it will teach challenging vocab—"diminish," "concoct," and "... More »

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television • Department of Education • cartoon • PBS • vocabulary • children's show • Martha Speaks

Car Talk Bros Get Animated, Dis Gas-Guzzling Heaps

Click and Clack to star in PBS cartoon, pessimistic Nova episode

Apr 20, 08 4:50 AM CDT
(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... More »

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television • gas • vehicle emissions • green energy • mpg • PBS • auto • hybrid car • NPR • Car Talk • Ray Magliozzi • Tom Magliozzi

 Is That You, 
 Samantha?  

Kim Cattrall plays it staid in Victorian drama of Rudyard Kipling's family

Apr 17, 08 6:55 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Burns' War Epic Starts Tomorrow

His latest PBS doc pays tribute to 'generic' US soldiers, including his own father

Sep 22, 07 4:00 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Battle Brews Over Burns' 'War'

PBS stations unsure if airing doc's profanity will net fines

Aug 26, 07 6:47 PM CDT
(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... More »

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television • film • FCC • PBS • Ken Burns • The War

Summer of Love Turns 40

Jun 23, 07 8:58 AM CDT
(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... More »

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San Francisco • Summer of Love • hippies • PBS • American Experience

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