#public broadcasting

[the-bookworm-cafe]

[terribleadventuresdotcom]

SOLIDARITY ALERT: Sesame Workshop writers

Writers at Sesame Workshop are on the verge of a strike. These writers are fighting for a contract with industry-standard annual raises, improvements to residuals and coverage of all writing work performed for Sesame Workshop—including animation and social media segments. Their current contract expires this Friday, April 19.

GO HERE TO SUBMIT A (pre-drafted, editable) LETTER OF SUPPORT 👇👇👇👇👇

If the company continues to refuse to engage on core issues and a deal can’t be reached by that deadline, Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) members at Sesame Workshop have unanimously voted to authorize a strike.

Your support will ensure that the negotiating committee has the leverage they need to make the strongest possible deal before their contract expires on Friday—or to have the WGAE Council and WGAW Board call for a strike if the company is still unwilling to meet its workers' reasonable demands.

source: AFL-CIO email newsletter

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1203

Oscar the Grouch said that he likes the PBS Hawaiʻi program Pau Hana Years "because he loves trash."

Source:

Moser, Jonathan. "PAU HANA YEARS 1000th SHOW." YouTube. January 19, 2021. (around 0:51:46) https://youtu.be/AJFGgKORHoo?si=jisH8TPvw27Zug8U. (Archived upload).

[adamcasey]

Count Von Count, Day 7

[eveningramblerouser]

Monday nights on ABC TV!:

8:00: Someone semi-famous shows you either an absolutely inspirational tale of climbing up the career ladder or details of an event so horrid you'll get second-hand PTSD

8:30: Terms of reference for the next royal commission

9:20: The only form of communications regulation available in Australia

9:35: Imagine this site and twitter had a baby. A deformed, underdeveloped, rabid baby

That's returning February! You can either watch it on telly or catch up on iView!

[silkieluv]

Hey there people/aliens/both/none/else

Are you interested in my Skybound fanfiction and/or want to see someone write live? Well, you're in luck!

In here I will be going live, working on the fanfiction

(If you don't want spoilers then OBVIOUSLY do NOT interact, but if you want to maybe even help me write then you're ABSOLUTELY welcomed!)

[itswilliamleonard]

wattropolis public television

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sophie Lawton at MMFA:

Project 2025 and the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation have a plan for a future Republican administration to defund “woke” public media institutions, including PBS and NPR. Last year, Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan organized by the Heritage Foundation, released a nearly 900-page policy book titled Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise. The book outlines a radical set of policy proposals that would dismantle the civil service, outlaw abortion, and roll back civil rights. (The effort is backed by over 100 conservative partner organizations and has tied itself to former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.) One chapter, written by Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez, lays out a plan for how a Republican administration might defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which uses taxpayer dollars to help fund public media institutions like PBS and NPR. In his chapter on public broadcasting, Gonzalez claimed “all Republican presidents have recognized that public funding of domestic broadcasts is a mistake” and “the next conservative President must” defund public media “and do it despite opposition from congressional members of his own party if necessary.”

Public broadcasting outlets like NPR and PBS are on the radical right-wing Project 2025's list to defund and eliminate.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Quebec television executive Marie-Philippe Bouchard's appointment as the next president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada comes with big challenges at the beleaguered public broadcaster, say observers who emphasized the need for renewed trust and a revamped funding model. Marsha Barber, a former senior producer for the CBC's flagship newscast, "The National," said Tuesday that morale has been "extremely low at the CBC," especially after millions of dollars in executive bonuses followed a round of layoffs. She looked forward to "a fresh start." "There have been job losses, there have been vacancies unfilled, the bonuses were a slap in the face to people working on the ground and trying to do their jobs," said Barber, now a journalism professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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[metalichotchoco]

A humanized ruff. Man i always wanted to be on this show when I was little. Bonus sketches under the cut if you wanna see em

He’s really fun to draw maybe I’ll revamp my blossom and Chet designs sometime in the future

[robotonthemoon]

PBS appreciation

Reflecting on how much I watched PBS growing up, and empathising with Toby Ziegler from Take Out the Trash Day (West Wing, 2000).

Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, Reading Rainbow, 3-2-1 Contact, Carmen Sandiego, Magic Schoolbus, Cosmos, Frugal Gormet, Nova (and Science Now), This Old House, The Joy of Painting, and yes Ms Julia Child

My childhood was publicly subsidised.

[fanboy-feminist]

One thing that does irk me about public radio is that there’s always a hard pivot from election coverage to classical music.

So, now that they’ve wrapped up their special coverage of the election, I’m just listening to Mahler symph 7 and refreshing Associated Press every 3 minutes like a crazy person.

[hello-delicious-tea]

tl;dr - they're saying that PBS and NPR have real proper commercials so that they can stop providing any funding for any public broadcasting service. They are explicit that that is the end goal and that the commercial thing is their potential way to make that happen.

[broadcastarchive-umd]

#PBS Mystery! was a mystery, police, and crime drama anthology series on PBS from 1980 to 2006. Mystery! aired mostly British crime series purchased from or co-produced with the BBC or ITV and adapted from British mystery fiction. In 2008, as a consequence of reduced funding, PBS combined Mystery! with Masterpiece Theatre under the umbrella title Masterpiece.

Above, promotional art for the series by Edward Gorey. Today, the Masterpiece opening sequence still features the Gorey characters seen in the original series.

[mysandwichgiver]

This post is for the Tumblr 1%, but hey, even the youngs enjoy travel to unexpected and out of the way places…

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American travel writer, author, activist, and television personality Rick Steves endorses Kamala Harris!

[yetisidelblog]

Trump, Elon Musk, and GOP Speaker Mike Johnson want to destroy the Public Broadcasting Service — the public media we know as PBS.1

Trump’s relentless war on journalism started during his first run for president and has only gotten worse. Now, with Musk in charge of slashing funding for public goods, PBS is under serious threat.

Sign the petition: Save PBS from Musk, Trump, and the GOP!

For over two decades, Americans have consistently ranked PBS the most trustworthy network for news and public affairs.2

And that’s exactly why Trump, Musk, and their cronies are targeting it – they know that an informed public with access to trusted journalism is a powerful defense against the manipulation, disinformation, and propaganda they’re pushing.

Trump already tried and failed to cut funding for PBS during his first administration because gutting one of America’s most trusted public institutions isn’t a popular move. Congress can’t let the richest people in the country and MAGA Republicans destroy PBS.

Add your name: Save PBS from Musk and Trump!

The Hill, “Speaker Johnson says he’d ‘like to’ axe PBS and Planned Parenthood,” December 4, 2024.

PBS, “PBS Fast Facts,” February 2024.

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