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  • CPB Board of Directors Audit and Finance Committee to Meet Virtually on August 9, 2022

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 29, 2022) -- The Audit and Finance Committee of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) Board of Directors will meet telephonically on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, from noon to 1:40 pm Eastern Time. On the draft agenda:

  • MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE, A New Four Part Series, Airs Tuesdays, October 4-25

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 28, 2022) — The latest documentary series by renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE, will premiere on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, at 9 PM EDT / 8 PM CDT (check local listings) on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS Video app.

  • PBS Announces SOUTHERN STORYTELLERS, a New Documentary Series Celebrating Creatives From Across the South, Premiering Summer 2023

    ARLINGTON, VA (July 27, 2022) -- The American South is known for its boundless creativity, absorbing personalities and evocative landscapes. SOUTHERN STORYTELLERS, a new three-episode series from PBS, Arkansas PBS and award-winning filmmaker Craig Renaud, follows some of the region’s most compelling and influential contemporary creators to the places they call home — the communities that fertilize the stories they tell in books, songs, poems, plays and on screens large and small.

  • New PBS KIDS Series, WORK IT OUT WOMBATS!, Premieres February 6, 2023

    PASADENA, CA (July 27, 2022)  – Today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS KIDS announced the premiere date for WORK IT OUT WOMBATS!, a new animated series for kids ages 3-6 produced by GBH Kids and Pipeline Studios, starring a playful trio of marsupial siblings—Malik, Zadie and Zeke—who live with their grandmother, Super

  • 'The World' from PRX and GBH gets CPB Support to Expand Coverage of War in Ukraine, Humanitarian Crisis

    BOSTON (July 12, 2022)––International news program “The World” — the daily public radio show from GBH and PRX — will expand and sustain its coverage of the war in Ukraine, with the support of $205,000 in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the organizations announced today.

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Fund Indigenous Weekday Broadcast

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 14, 2022) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced a $500,000 grant to IndiJ Public Media, an independent non-profit news organization that owns ICT, formerly known as Indian Country Today. ICT began as the Lakota Times more than 40 years ago and has transformed into a digital news site and a national weekday broadcast covering Indigenous communities.

  • CPB Board of Directors to Meet Virtually on June 14-15, 2022

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 2, 2022 -- Meeting times and agenda were updated on June 7, 2022) -- The CPB Board of Directors will meet virtually on Tuesday, June 14, from 1-5:05 pm Eastern Time, and on Wednesday, June 15, from 2-3:15 pm Eastern Time. On the draft agenda:

    Day 1:

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting Names Cheraine Stanford Vice President, TV Content Strategy

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 7, 2022) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has named Cheraine Stanford Vice President, Television Content Strategy, effective June 21. In this position, she will plan, lead, and execute projects and strategic initiatives that advance a mission-focused pipeline of public media content for national distribution across a diverse range of broadcast and digital platforms.

  • CPB Funds Public Media Initiatives to Inform Participation in 2022 Elections

    DALLAS, Texas (May 18, 2022) -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will award the America Amplified engagement journalism initiative an additional $375,000 to help public media stations across the country ensure that American citizens have the facts they need to participate in local, state, and Congressional elections this fall. This grant brings the total amount awarded to America Amplified to more than $1.35 million.

  • Statement From Patricia Harrison on the Death of David Liroff

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 16, 2022) – Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), released the following statement today regarding the death of David Liroff, a longtime executive of WGBH and former CPB senior vice president, system development and media strategy:

    “Over the course of his long career, David Liroff was a serious champion of public television and a pioneer in using audience research to make data-driven improvements in programming.