#pbs member station

[tfbsattic]

Here’s why that very day was the MOST EPIC for Jerseyans attending elementary school in the early ‘90s:

[tfbsattic]

DEM MOWFS

(Seriously - I intentionally misspelled that above phrase because it’s a strange but wonderfully weird NJN PBS Kids ID.)

[littleraccooncarl]

Writers for PBS Kids shows, including Carl the Collector, are going on strike if management does not agree to a fair deal before their current contract expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on November 21, 2024.

If this happens, this would mean production on Carl would be halted, and we would get no new episodes for a while.

[dweemeister]

July 13, 2023

By Anousha Sakoui

(Los Angeles Times) — SAG-AFTRA’s national board of directors on Thursday voted unanimously to approve a strike action by tens of thousands of Hollywood actors, widening the scope of labor unrest in an entertainment industry that is already facing numerous headwinds.

The vote came after negotiations between the actors’ union and the major studios failed to reach an agreement on a new film and TV contract.

Actors — similarly to screenwriters already on picket lines — have been battling studios for a pact that would deliver far better pay and residuals from streaming and address other issues, including the use of artificial intelligence, that have been roiling the entertainment landscape.

Despite the last-minute involvement of a federal mediator, the 160,000-member union was unable to secure a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios in labor dealings. The old collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night without a deal in place.

Union leaders announced the board’s vote at a noon news conference in Los Angeles.

“What is happening to us is happening to all fields of labor,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said during a fiery speech at the union’s headquarters. “I’m shocked by the way the people we have been in business with are treating us. It is disgusting. Shame on them.”

“We are the victims here,” Drescher added. “We are being victimized by a very greedy entity.”

So, some clarification. This strike covers all movie and TV projects that involve actors and voiceover announcers. This includes animated works. TL;DR: the main concerns are over residuals from streaming services (who are black holes of information that do not release viewership data so as to maintain complete leverage in contract negotiations) and the potential for AI. Unlike the writers, the actors are also trying to require all auditions to be in-person (one lasting impact of COVID is the larger adoption of taped auditions, which does not guarantee that the casting director watches the audition and also deprives the actor of networking opportunities even if they don't pass the audition). These concerns are almost identical - with exception of the in-person auditions - of the Writers Guild of America's (WGA) concerns with their respective strike.

This strike indirectly affects SAG-AFTRA members in radio, audiobooks, non-AMPTP studio video games and interactive media, music, and commercials.

This strike does not cover local news reporters and announcers for AMPTP constituent-owned radio and TV stations (full list here... e.g. every major local English- and Spanish-language channel in Greater LA and both PBS stations in KOCE and KCET). Yes, news reporters and announcers working for a stations owned by an AMPTP constituent are SAG-AFTRA members. They are covered by a separate contract.

[spoonbenders]

what is the max headroom hijacking incident

im glad u asked . heres a brief description + the videos of the incident (volume and flashing warning for both)

"On the night of November 22, 1987, an unidentified man wearing a Max Headroom mask appeared on the signals of two television stations in Chicago, Illinois. WGN-TV, owned by Tribune Broadcasting, was hijacked first. The intrusion occurred during the sports report on its 9:00 p.m. newscast and lasted about 25 seconds."

"Then came PBS member station WTTW, [...] The next interception occurred at about 11:00 p.m. during an episode of the Doctor Who serial, "Horror of Fang Rock", and lasted almost 90 seconds."

"None of the individuals responsible for the intrusion have been identified. This incident got the attention of the CBS Evening News the next day and was talked about nationwide."

[glygriffe]

Tragic Dingus

Fandom: Stranger Things Characters: Robin & Steve Event: Sicktember 2023 Prompt: 1- Tragically bad at self-care

Robin looked up from the PB&J sandwich she was preparing next to Vickie and spotted Steve out of the corner of her eye. He was carrying a box of miscellaneous warm sweaters to a sorting station on the other side of the gymnasium. 

He seemed to be slightly limping - not as bad as Dustin, of course - and Robin mentally rewinded the events of the last few days to see what injuries Steve sustained that would warrant him favoring one side of his body. 

Then she remembered. Not that she had forgotten Vecna or the horror that happened to Max. Of course not. But she had learned after the ‘mall incident’ that all members of their little group felt better equipped to deal with the mundane aspects of life if they didn’t focus too much on the life-threatening ones. 

It was easier to flirt with Vickie if she didn’t dwell on half her friends almost dying a couple of days earlier. And even then, Robin was not very good at flirting.

But if she kept in the forefront of her mind that Steve had almost been strangled to death TWICE and that both his sides had been torn to shreds by demobats probably infected with rabies, she would lose any chance of ever having a girlfriend.

And that was without counting the fact that the dingus almost set all of them on fire when he threw Molotov cocktails at Vecna. Well, okay, maybe it was the second Molotov, the one that Robin herself threw, that backfired and sent the flames towards them. But that was beside the point. Because it was Steve who was favoring his left side while sorting the aforementioned sweaters, instead of getting a rabies shot.

Robin absent-mindedly put her knife in the peanut butter jar. Steve was a protector at heart. He'd put himself in harm's way time and again since the 4th of July at the Starcourt Mall, protecting his young friends from Russian spies and Upside Down monsters. 

She gave a quick smile to the girl next to her, but her mind was still on Steve. For a couple of minutes, at Lover’s Lake, she'd thought he had drowned even if he was a good swimmer. And today on the drive to Hawkings High he was fussing about Dustin walking on his bad leg, but he had not mentioned that his demobats bites were bothering him. Even if there was no risk of rabies - which Robin was not convinced there was - these nasty beasts had viciously torn Steve's flesh. These wounds could easily become infected. But Steve only went to the hospital to see Max, not to get his injuries examined.

Picking up her knife as well as her conversation with Vicky, Robin thought that for all the care he was providing for them, King Steve was really bad, like tragically bad, at taking care of himself.

[bumblebeeappletree]

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HOMECOMING

Examine how the InterTribal Buffalo Council’s Bison Conservation and Transfer Program is supporting buffalo restoration to the Indigenous people whose lives, spiritually and physically, were inextricably linked to the bison for thousands of years. HOMECOMING is directed and produced by Julianna Brannum. Executive Produced by Ken Burns. Edited by Matt Leach. Music by Kevin Hoetger and Kyle Crusham. Cinematography by Jared Ames, Brittan Bendabout, Charles Elmore, Lindsay Jackson, and Buddy Squires, ASC. Audio by David Griesinger and Royce Sharp. The film advisors were Julie Dunfey, Dayton Duncan and Craig Mellish.

[coochiequeens]

California WTF?

By Shay Woulahan. October 21, 2023

An NPR-affiiated public broadcaster has released a sympathetic profile on a trans-identified male inmate accused of sexual assault and threatening female inmates while serving his sentence in a women’s prison. KQED, the member station for NPR and PBS in Northern California, suggested Syiaah Skylit was a victim of transphobic hoaxes and targeted punishment.

Skylit, born Jonathan Roberston, is currently serving a 16-year sentence on multiple counts of robbery with a gun. While he had initially been placed in a men’s prison, Skylit, along with the help of trans activists, fought for transfer to a women’s facility, and was eventually placed at the California Central Women’s Facility (CCWF) in mid-2021.

Skylit was one of many male inmates who were transferred to CCWF following the implementation of SB 132, also known as the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act.

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By Genevieve Gluck October 20, 2023

A trans-identified male musician in California is currently touring and performing songs calling for the murder of women critical of gender identity ideology. Precious Child, who previously involved himself in the Wi Spa controversy, utilizes graphic sexual and violent threats against “TERFs” in his music.

During his most recent performance at the Knockout Bar in San Francisco, Precious Child performed his song “TERF Killer,” riling the audience into chanting “kill a TERF today.”

TERF, an acronym standing for “Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist,” is often broadly applied to all women who oppose the belief that males should be able to self-identify as female for the purposes of access to women’s spaces.

In a video of the performance shared to his YouTube account, Precious Child can be seen chanting “kill a TERF today” while the accompanying music video is shown on a screen behind him. The video features images of bullets and of a knife stabbing into the air as the words “kill a TERF today” flash repeatedly across the screen.

Precious Child has a history of repeatedly threatening critics of gender ideology, with a particular focus reserved for females who oppose gender self-identification law ........ Precious has also made repeated threats against world-renowned author JK Rowling.

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[wanderingmind867]

My take on The Creeper (Jack Ryder):

Jack Ryder was a popular, well beloved TV personality in the Gotham metropolitan area. A popular newscaster who also had his own local investigative journalism tv show (one half is political panel discussion and the other half is investigative journalism), Jack Ryder was a star. But he was also very forceful, standing up for what he believed in no matter the cost. And it was this integrity that would be the downfall of his career.

You see, Jack Ryder was too full of integrity for his own good. He refused to give biased reporting, and would gladly bad-mouth and investigate his own show's sponsors. Since that meant he had next to no sponsors after a few years (and since he had a bad habit of arguing with all the discussion panelists on his show), his show made very little money. It was a great series of hard hitting journalism and discussion, but it got cancelled due to Ryder's stubbornness and integrity.

But seeing Ryder's integrity and skills with researcher, the head of security at the tv station got Ryder a new side job as an investigator. This head of security had heard rumours that a group of gangsters were trying to hunt down one Professor Friedrich Yatz, a famous german biochemist currently living in the United States.

Following a lead on Yatz's whereabouts to a costume party at the lead gangster's mansion, Ryder managed to assemble a costume out of spare props left at the costume shop he visited. Yellow tights, green trunks, red gloves and boots, yellow body paint, a green wig and a red sheepskin rug he wears like a cape/coat. At the party, Ryder gets distracted by an attractive woman (who's secretly a member of this mafia organization) and manages to get drunk. Then when he tries to take down one of the mob's men, he's easily subdued and locked in the basement with professor yatz.

Knowing he's probably going to die, yatz bets everything on jack ryder and injects him with his powerful serum. This serum gives a man the power to heal much more rapidly than a normal man and it also gives ryder advanced strength and speed. He also hid another device inside ryder, a tiny chip that enables people to make clothing or items become weightless and invisible, solely through the power of the chip. All he needs to do is press down on an activator switch yatz built to control the chip, and the items will reappear or vanish on command.

Professor yatz is gunned down before he can realize this, but jack ryder's inebriation also had a unique effect on the microchip. The microchip bonded to ryder's costume, but it also bonded to his mental state at the time. So now whenever jack ryder presses the activator switch and becomes the creeper, he enters a state not unlike being blackout drunk. He acts like a drunk too, behaving erratically and with a drunkards higher tolerance to pain.

Shortly after yatz is gunned down, Jack Ryder presses the activator switch to become the creeper. When next he wakes up (around 24 hours later), all of the gangsters are in prison and the press are reporting on a new vigilante named The Creeper. And it's only when he sees a photo of this vigilante that Jack Ryder realizes he is The Creeper. When he pushes down on this switch and actives the microchip inside of him, he goes unconscious as a split personality takes charge and battles crime for him. And this begins the story of The Creeper, the newest vigilante to grace Gotham City.

Two final notes: Jack Ryder gets himself his investigative talk show back, now airing on gotham's local PBS equivalent. At least there he won't have to worry about compromising his integrity for corrupt sponsors.

And although Jack Ryder and The Creeper initially have no contact with each other, they begin to be able to communicate the more Jack Ryder transforms into The Creeper, or vice-versa. After like 10 to 20 transformations, the two become completely aware of each other and begin to tenatively cooperate with each other.

[mofffun]

tell me a year ago i'd be staring at TTFC Extras Call for sentai spoilers...

All three days called for

a dozen or so people

in autumn clothes

running from attack

prepare an extra jacket or shirt so you can doube as

regular people and

resistance

Ome? Takasaki? I've never heard of these places??? Takasaki rings a bell but nothing I can name right away. To be researched.

edit: Takasaki has the Zenkaiger shopping street!

edit 2: Oume is listed for a Geats extras call on May 18, and Ome is listed in the opening credits of ep.43

The very specific autumn is too obviously saying a different planet or our earth.

Day 1 mentioned the footage may be used in "another work". Though the national costume requirement for kingoh is dropped, it still doesn't match the earlier extras call for a Sakamoto Original Work. That one called for a "spring/early summer" wardrobe. So we can't just link the two up as "Kyoryu 10th Anniversary (?)" yet. I don't think Toei would go as far to recycle it as stock footage even if the raw has nothing work-specific. So this "other work" can only be a kingoh spinoff...? (maybe a spinoff explaining the origins of this resistance or fill the two years gap)

Oume's location is 40 minutes walk away from the station + no restaurants or convenience stores around, so it must be deep in the mountains, yet they specified "streets" (machi) so maybe rural/village streets? ??

Day 2 is an urban area given "20mins walk from station & 5mins to combini" but Day 3 has to be mountain/(abandoned) factory if it calls for a Tokyo gathering point. The extras will need to be transported by Toei instead of coming in their own cars.

Costumes is available for Day 2 and 3 cast who would be proper member of this "resistance against an evil organization". new pb preorder

Curious curious if all thee days take place on the same planet/country or if it's chikyuu but three different countries? what if the invaders has rooted itself (before or during the time skip) and completely changed chikyuu as we know it??

my gut reaction seeing the new costume was,

simplified -> easier to move around -> more location less studio -> our earth?

what does resistance mean??? is it volunteers started by the people? how big is the resistance? just a protest group or do they have a leader/military? led by a new character - or the return of a familiar king? will there be a split of opinion in our team?

[ericdeggans]

Archiving my work in a new place called Authory

When you’re a journalist creating content for many different outlets, sometimes, it’s tough to create a place where all your work can live and be easily accessible.

That’s why I decided to try a new platform called Authory, which places most of my stuff in one, searchable archive where anyone – especially me – can get a good sample of what I’ve been up to at any given time.

Right now, that means all my work for NPR, both on the radio and as print stories on the website, plus guest interviews I do for KCRW’s The Business radio show and podcast, my recent guest host stint on Tampa PBS’ politics show Florida This Week, interviews I’ve given to NPR member stations like LAist, WABE and WNPR, TV appearances on CNN or MSNBC, the often weekly TV talk segments on NPR’s midday show Here and Now, references to my book Race-Baiter, and freelance work I do for outlets like IndieWire and Columbia Journalism Review.

It's still under construction now – the platform is still aggregating material and I’m not sure yet how useful this archive will be. But if you’re curious to see what it all looks like in one spot, click here and check it out. Also, feel free to let me know what you think of it!

[hilarychuff]

Over the last hour, various members of the squad have flitted in and out of the tiny bathroom to check on her, bringing water and little bits of food they’ve managed to scavenge. She’s tried to choke it all down (after all, it’s practically like she never even drank those high-calorie wine coolers now), but a bag of soggy brown apple slices and the remains of Claire’s PB and J did little to soothe the churning in her tummy. It also wasn’t long before they came right back up. There’s nothing left in her by the time Jason finally comes knocking at the door, edging it open only enough so he can speak through the crack. “Hey, Chris,” he says softly. “Patrick and I ran out and got you this from the gas station. I’m ready to take you home whenever you feel up to it, OK?” His hand reaches through the gap as he sets a plastic bag in the sink, and then he’s pulling the door closed behind him. It takes effort to push herself up on her knees, high enough off the ground that she can snag a finger through one of the plastic loops without needing to get to her feet. When she drags the whole thing down into her lap, its contents thunking heavily against her thighs, she finds a water bottle inside, a little travel size toothbrush and toothpaste lying beneath it. Tears spring to her eyes, slip instantly down her cheeks, and she has to tear off a long strand of toilet paper to wipe them away, to scrub under her nose. When she manages to get to shaky feet, she washes her whole face, then brushes her teeth, resting heavily against the sink as she does. Only once she’s finished cleaning herself up does she ease the door open to find Jason leaning against the opposite wall. He stands up straight when he sees her, looks her from toe to head, and then he sighs and opens his arms. She lets herself fall into them. He gathers her up, one hand just below her ponytail, the other steady on her lower back, and she makes herself small against his chest. For a second, he just holds her, and then he sighs again. “C’mon, Chris,” he says, tucking her under just one arm. “Let’s get you home.”

all the best people see you (all the best people know), chapter 4, a pre-season 4 buckingham au

[slidesworthseeing]

Found slide: Queensland Railways PB class steam locomotive 748 waits at Coolangatta Railway Station, Gold Coast, Bundjalung country, on a trip from Tweed Heads to South Brisbane, circa 1957. Photo by a member of the Australian Railway Historical Society

[mstornadox]

In other depressing TV news, Gov. Stitt of Oklahoma recently vetoed the bill to fund OETA, Oklahoma public broadcasting. I wish I could say this was the first time a (Republican) governor has vetoed its funding. I remember there were fights for funding PBS when I was a kid. Despite the political grandstanding, however, OETA always got funded.

Le sigh.

Not to mention that Stitt’s homophobic reason for the veto is bogus. State funding supports OETA’s operational expenses, not programming. What a mean little man.

In the meantime, Oklahomans please contact your State Representative, (405) 521-2711, and your State Senator, (405) 524-0126, and respectfully ask them to reauthorize OETA.

[kickmag]

Angélique Kidjo, Bill T. Jones & Thelonius Monk Documentaries Are Scheduled For Season 15 Of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange

Documentaries about African singer Angélique Kidjo, choreographer Bill T. Jones and jazz musician Thelonious Monk are scheduled for season 15 of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange.  The new season is different from previous ones because it focuses on one theme by singling out Black art for the first time. The WORLD Channel has been the home and co-producer of the show with Black Public Media since  2010. Leslie Fields-Cruz, BPM executive director and AfroPoP executive producer had this to say about their 15th anniversary: 

“When we created AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange it was our hope that we would be able to bring stories of modern Black life to public media audiences and help augment viewers’ ideas of what Black life is and can be,” said Leslie Fields-Cruz, BPM executive director and AfroPoP executive producer. “Witnessing the series reach its 15th season, a landmark that is the result of the work and drive of so many people over the years, is an awe-inspiring and humbling moment that  fills me with great gratitude.”

The premiere of Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man In The Waters will stream exclusively on Black Public Media's YouTube Channel at midnight ET on Monday, April 3rd. The film will screen later on that day at 8 PM ET on WORLD Channel. The feature looks at the ballet D-Man In The Waters originally presented in 1989 by Jones and his late partner Arnie Zane. The ballet was created in response to the A.I.D.S. crisis at the time and its impact on their dance company and friends. 

Claire Duguet's Queen Kidjo will screen on April 10th. The film follows Kidjo's beginnings in Benin and her rise to legendary status. Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts is a portrait of the painter Bill Traylor who was born a slave and started painting scenes of his life on a plantation and the changing urban world at age 85. Jeffrey Wolf's film about Traylor is scheduled for April 17th. The Sound Of Masks is about a Mapiko dancer from Mozambique. The Mapiko dance is exclusively performed by male members of the Makonde community as a tool of independence to defy the colonizing influence of the Mozambican War Of Independence. Sara CF de Gouveia's feature about Mapiko is scheduled to be seen on April 24th. Rewind & Play is Alain Gomis's exhibit of the disrespect jazz pianist and composer Thelonius Monk experienced in 1969 during an appearance on French state television. Rewind & Play will air on May 1st. AfroPoP has been presenting 

AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchangecan also be viewed on WORLD Channel’s YouTube channel and on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS Video app. The program is available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO. APT will release the season to public television stations across the country on Monday, May 1. For viewing information, check local listings.