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For more than 40 years, Washington Week has delivered the most interesting conversation of the week. Washington Week is the longest-running primetime news & public affairs program on television. The show first aired locally on WETA on February 23, 1967 as Washington Week In Review. A few months later it began broadcasting over Eastern Educational Network, a group of 14 stations located between Washington, D.C. and Maine. In January 1969, it became the first local program to air on the new Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Washington Week features a group of journalists participating in roundtable discussion of major news events. In its early years, Washington Week maintained three regular correspondents



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PBS Announces 'Ken Burns Presents The Gene: An Intimate History,' New Collaboration w Photo PBS Announces 'Ken Burns Presents The Gene: An Intimate History,' New Collaboration with Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. Three-Hour Documentary to Premiere Spring 2020
by Tori Hartshorn - July 31, 2018

Today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS announced KEN BURNS PRESENTS THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY, a new three-hour documentary executive produced by Ken Burns, will premiere over three nights in Spring 2020 on PBS. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., and a...


PBS Announces 'Reconstruction: America After the Civil War,' A New Documentary from H Photo PBS Announces 'Reconstruction: America After the Civil War,' A New Documentary from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to Air Spring 2019 on PBS
by Tori Hartshorn - July 31, 2018

PBS Announces 'Reconstruction: America After the Civil War,' A New Documentary from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to Air Spring 2019 on PBS...


Judy Woodruff, Gwen Ifill, and Bob Wolff to Be Honored by WFUV Photo Judy Woodruff, Gwen Ifill, and Bob Wolff to Be Honored by WFUV
by BWW News Desk - November 01, 2017

Award-winning PBS News Hour anchors Judy Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill will receive the Charles Osgood for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism from WFUV Radio (90.7 FM/wfuv.org), the noncommercial, member-supported public media service of Fordham University for nearly 70 years....


Ken Burns Launches UNUM – New Media Initiative to Present Issues and Spark Conversati Photo Ken Burns Launches UNUM – New Media Initiative to Present Issues and Spark Conversations
by Emily Bruno - November 17, 2017

Filmmaker Ken Burns today announced the launch of UNUM, a new digital destination where users can access clips from across Burns's films, explore themes that run through American history including Leadership, Race, Innovation, and War and relate them to issues of the present....


Ken Burns's LEONARDO DA VINCI Documentary is Coming to PBS Photo Ken Burns's LEONARDO DA VINCI Documentary is Coming to PBS
by Michael Major - February 12, 2024

The film, which explores the life and work of the 15th century artist Leonardo da Vinci, is Burns's first non-American subject. It also marks a significant change in the team's filmmaking style, which includes using split screens with images, video and sound from different periods to further context...


CNN and PBS Launch New Late-Night Public Affairs Series AMANPOUR & COMPANY July 2018 Photo CNN and PBS Launch New Late-Night Public Affairs Series AMANPOUR & COMPANY July 2018
by Macon Prickett - May 09, 2018

Yesterday, at the PBS Annual Meeting with public television stations, PBS and WNET announced that in collaboration with CNN, the new one-hour late-night public affairs series, Amanpour & Company, will launch in July on PBS (check local listings). The new series will feature wide-ranging, in-depth co...


Listings for NBC's LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS, August 11 – August 18 Photo Listings for NBC's LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS, August 11 – August 18
by A.A. Cristi - August 11, 2020

LISTINGS FOR NBC'S 'LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS' August 11 – August 18 ...







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