In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...

PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The man jailed after a chase that ended inside a Plainfield Township retirement home had been sentenced to life in prison for murder nearly 30 years ago before ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “Maigret,” premiering Sunday on PBS, is the fourth British series (plus one failed pilot) to be titled “Maigret,” ...

Cuts to NPR, PBS and other public media outlets have been in the news all year long, but now the federal funds have actually run out. With Tuesday marking the end of the federal government’s fiscal ...

WPSU, Penn State University's NPR and PBS affiliate, announced Sept. 11 that it will begin to "wind down" operations. The move comes after Congress approved more than $1 billion in cuts to the ...

My first reporting job out of college was for the TV industry trade publication Electronic Media, which sent me to Washington, D.C., to cover the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and public ...

The Knight Foundation and other top organizations are aiming to provide $50 million to stabilize the stations most at risk from the recent federal government funding cuts. The Knight Foundation and ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has helped make PBS a home for independent documentaries for more than 50 years. In an email to NPR, CPB said it provided over $24 million to documentary ...

Donors are turning out to support local stations, but those contributions so far fall well short of the roughly $535 million a year that Congress cut. By Benjamin Mullin The public broadcasting system ...

Moyers, who died June 26, worked as a special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson before becoming an award-winning journalist and PBS host. Originally broadcast in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2017. KUOW is ...