Public television executives have agreed to keep two long running documentary film programs — POV and Independent Lens — in primetime and to substantially increase marketing support for the shows, PBS ...

Neal Shapiro, president of NBC News until 16 months ago, will succeed William Baker as president and c.e.o. of New York’s WNET. Shapiro, 48, a 25-year veteran of network news who ran NBC’s Dateline ...

TRENTON — During more than five hours of testimony about a new WNET subsidiary managing the state's public television network, an Assembly panel today covered everything from the definition of news to ...

WNET, Channel Thirteen, the nation's largest public television station, lost its brand-new digital transmission facility and tower, a $ 4 million investment, in the September 11 destruction of the ...

New York’s WNET is reversing its decision — at least temporarily — to shift independent documentaries from primetime on its main channel to the secondary WLIW on Long Island, which reaches a far ...

Nearly two years after a nasty split, “BBC World News” and WNET.org have made up. The weeknight newscast will return on Monday to WNET, Channel 13 in New York, where it will air at 5:30 p.m., and to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. WNET, parent company of New York’s PBS stations THIRTEEN and ...