PBS Bill Moyers May Return to PBS By Alex Weprin on Apr. 1, 2011 - 9:45 AM Coming off the news last night that Jon Meacham would be stepping down as co-host of the PBS program “Need to Know,” The NY Times reports that Bill Moyers is eyeing a return to public television. Moyers, whose PBS prog ...
Awards Broadcasters Lead the Way at News and Documentary Emmy Awards By Alex Weprin on Sep. 28, 2010 - 10:22 AM Last night the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences handed out this year’s News and Documentary Emmy Awards. The broadcast networks, led by CBS, NBC, PBS and ABC, led the way with a combined 20 wins. The only c ...
Awards Gwen Ifill Accepts First Amendment Award By kevin on Jun. 15, 2010 - 12:49 PM PBS “Washington Week” moderator and “NewsHour” correspondent Gwen Ifill was honored Monday by Quinnipiac University with the 17th Fred Friendly First Amendment Award at a luncheon in New York. Former recipi ...
PBS Rather, Colbert, Bloomberg Celebrate Bill Moyers By kevin on Apr. 28, 2010 - 11:20 AM Bill Moyers and his PBS program “Bill Moyers Journal” hit the airwaves for their final broadcast this Friday after almost 40 years after Moyers launched the initial “Journal.” New York’s THIRTEEN has ...
TV Biz Moyers to Retire from Weekly TV By kevin on Nov. 21, 2009 - 3:17 PM Bill Moyers has said PBS’ weekly “Bill Moyers Journal” will end on April 30, 2010, reports the NY Times: “I am 75 years old,” he said of the decision to end the series, which began in April 2007. The ...
TV Biz Newsers Make “Atlantic50” By kevin on Sep. 16, 2009 - 5:12 PM The Atlantic Wire, The Atlantic’s latest opinion aggregator, has released a list of the “Atlantic50,” made up of “the columnists and bloggers and broadcast pundits who shape the national debates” that ...
Politics Another Former tvnewser Joins Obama Administration By Chris Ariens on Aug. 3, 2009 - 6:11 PM Roberta Baskin, a fixture in local TV in Washington, DC but who was also a correspondent for “NOW with Bill Moyers” on PBS, CBS’s “48 Hours” and ABC’s “20/20,” is joining the Dept. o ...
Awards Barbara Walters to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award By kevin on Jul. 10, 2009 - 10:22 AM Variety reports that the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will be presenting Barbara Walters with its Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th News and Documentary Emmy Awards. The “20/20” anchor and EP/c ...
TV Biz The Ticker: Suze, NBR, Writers… By Chris Ariens on Feb. 10, 2009 - 5:15 PM > Slate’s James Scurlock writes about “a bottle-blond former waitress and self-described ’55-year-old virgin’ with a taste for the good life [who] became the financial messiah for millions of Americans&# ...
TV Biz The Ticker: Willis, Moyers, Folbaum… By SteveK on Feb. 6, 2009 - 5:44 PM > CNN’s Gerri Willis has an exclusive interview with Shaun Donovan, President Obama’s Housing and Urban Development secretary. It airs tomorrow on Your Bottom Line. > Bill Moyers of PBS is participating in a live ...