Tavis Smiley Is Sticking With Los Angeles
Despite signing a deal to make New York’s PBS affiliate WNET the co-production partner for his nightly talkshow–instead of LA’s newly minted primary PBS affiliate PBS SoCal–Tavis Smiley unequivocally put to rest any rumors of an impending move to New York.
“LA is home,” Smiley tells Fishbowl LA. “I expect to be there. We take pride in being based in LA…Smart television is not a wholly owned subsidiary of the Eastern seaboard. Ours was the first PBS show broadcast live, west of the Mississippi.
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