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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:27am on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | Sesame Street Turns 40 with Michelle Obama, Broadway Star as Guests
USA Today reported on November 6, 2009:
"The other high-profile grownups appearing this season – among them Cameron Diaz, Sarah Jessica Parker, Adam Sandler and Tiki Barber – attest to the show's timeless hipness and its status as a pop-culture and educational icon.
The series holds a record 122 Emmy Awards, not including a lifetime-achievement trophy, and has been adapted in more than 120 countries and territories around the globe.
"The bulk of our audience is in the 2s and 3s, though we shoot for 2 to 4," says executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente.
At that early stage, says Carroll Spinney – who is 75, and has been with the show since Day 1 (he plays Oscar as well as Big Bird) – "children are basically the same, and have been through the years."
The full story:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-11-06-sesame06_CV_N.htm
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:31am on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | Jimmy Smits will host "A Capitol Fourth," America's National Independence Day Celebration, on PBS.
Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits returns to host the television birthday party, A Capitol Fourth, featuring for the first time ever, Barry Manilow, who will both open and close the concert broadcast with a medley of hits and patriotic classics along with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Arts Society of Washington.
He will be joined by the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, international pop sensation Natasha Bedingfield, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning cast of Jersey Boys, multi Grammy Award-nominee Michael Feinstein and acclaimed classical pianist Andrew von Oeyen.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:15pm on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 | The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer on PBS is getting a makeover, Elizabeth Jensen of The New York Times reported on May 11, 2009:
"“The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” public broadcasting’s nightly newscast, is getting a makeover, designed to bring it more fully into the digital era, give it a livelier look and nudge it, however slowly, toward the day when its longtime anchor decides to retire.
Mr. Lehrer, who will turn 75 next Tuesday, isn’t stepping down. But in September the program will be retitled “PBS NewsHour” and return to a two-anchor format, which it had until 1995, when Robert MacNeil left.
Linda Winslow, the executive producer of “NewsHour,” said the changes will be made for a simple reason: “What we were trying to accomplish was a more engaging program.”
In the fall Mr. Lehrer will be joined by one of three co-anchors drawn from the show’s current team: Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff or Jeffrey Brown. The co-anchor will vary, and when Mr. Lehrer, who remains the executive editor, is off, two of them will anchor."
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/arts/television/12pbs.html
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 9:31pm on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 | Paul Kangas, host of the PBS "Nightly Business Report," will step down at the end of 2009, after 30 years with the financial news show.
Kangas has been on the show since it first began as a local program on Miami’s public TV station WPBT TV 2 in 1979. On May 7, 2009, the producers of "NBR" said they have begun the search for a new co-anchor to join Susie Gharib and expect to make an announcement in the fall.
"I'm not retiring," Kangas said. "Business news is what I know and it's what I am. So I plan to stay involved through speaking engagements, guest commentaries, television appearances and consultation."
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:16am on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | PBS is launching a new video channel, MediaWeek reported on April 22, 2009:
"On Wednesday (Apr. 22) PBS will significantly dialup its online video strategy with the launch of a new video-only channel which will aggregate thousands of full-length episodes from the network’s top series, along with complete seasons of current shows and full back-catalogues of classis series.
Among the shows available on the new portal (PBS.org/video) are American Masters, Antiques Road Show, Masterpiece Theater Nature and Nova. Classic series, such as the various programs featuring cooking legend Julia Child, will also eventually be available in their entirety on the site."
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 12:27pm on Thursday, February 5th, 2009 | On February 4, 2009, the Hollywood Reporter reported that celebrity chef Eric Ripert will star in a new show on PBS:
"Eric Ripert, the internationally recognized chef of Le Bernardin restaurant in New York and frequent guest judge on Bravo's "Top Chef," will star for the first time in his own TV series, "Avec Eric," debuting nationally in the fall on PBS.
Shot in HD on location in Italy, Northern California and New York, "Avec Eric" takes the viewer on a culinary journey with Ripert. He and Le Bernardin have earned the highest ratings possible from the New York Times, the Michelin Guide and Zagat.
Ten episodes, distributed by American Public Television, are scheduled to run in the fall."
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:44pm on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | On January 29, 2009, the Wall Street Journal reported renewed interest in hard news on TV:
"Even as many news programs face a post-election audience drop-off, "serious" television news is drawing serious ratings this winter, with viewers flocking to shows like CBS Corp.'s "60 Minutes" and PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
This interrupts a decade-long drift of viewers away from hard news toward softer fare. Executives and producers credit high interest in all things Obama, as well as a raft of major developments in the economy and the Middle East that demand longer attention spans from viewers.
"At a moment like this, where the sky's falling on a lot of fronts, there's a strong market for serious news," says Jeff Fager, executive producer of CBS's long-running news magazine "60 Minutes," which has seen its audience jump 9% so far this television season, which started in September, after a five-year ratings slide. "This shows there's still a business in real reporting on television," he says.
"60 Minutes" has averaged 15.4 million viewers this season, more than most network prime-time shows. The program finished among the top 10 on broadcast television for its last eight episodes."
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