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Alpana Singh

Singh became especially well known for hosting the local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television station WTTW's restaurant review show, Check, Please! and her regular appearances on Chicago Tonight for the "Ask Alpana" segment on Thursday evenings.

Boston Pops Orchestra

Also during Fiedler's tenure, the Pops and local public television station WGBH developed a series of weekly televised broadcasts recorded during the Pops' regular season in Symphony Hall, Evening at Pops.

Communications media in Romania

Additionally, there is a public television service operated by Televiziunea Română with four channels (TVR 1, TVR 2, TVR Cultural and TVR i) and there are many localized or franchised international channels (such as HBO, MTV, Cinemax, AXN, Cartoon Network).

Fritz Wetherbee

From 1985 to 1995 he was the host of New Hampshire Crossroads on Public Television.

Henry Mentz

Mentz also served on the Executive Committee of the Council for a Better Louisiana and served two terms on the board of directors of WYES, a New Orleans public television station.

Jakob Augstein

Also since early 2011, he is the counterpart of Nikolaus Blome, a journalist for BILD newspaper, in a weekly debate on controversial issues of German politics, on German public television channel PHOENIX ("Augstein und Blome").

KPBT-TV

KPBT-TV is a public television station located in Odessa, Texas, broadcasting locally on digital channel 38 as a PBS member station.

KRWG

KRWG-TV, a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television station (channel 22 analog/23 digital) licensed to Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States

Link TV

In October 2012, Link TV announced that it was merging with KCET, an independent public television station in Los Angeles, to form a new nonprofit entity, to be called KCETLink.

Magic Shadows

Magic Shadows was a 30-min Canadian television series produced by the TVOntario public television network hosted by Elwy Yost that ran on weekday evenings in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mark Kistler's Imagination Station

Mark Kistler's Imagination Station is a public television series where Mark Kistler taught children – and adults – to draw using techniques such as perspective and shading.

Megan Beyer

She was a regular panelist on To the Contrary, a weekly news-analysis program airing on more than 251 public television stations in the United States, in Canada, and internationally on Worldnet Television.

Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World

The 1992 documentary series was presented as 10 video programs, each 60 minutes long, and was released on VHS after being aired on public television.

Pam Krueger

Pam Krueger is creator, co-host and executive producer of MoneyTrack, a half-hour show about personal finance and investing that airs on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television stations nationwide.

Robert Don Hughes

Hughes' powerfully imagined dragon Vicia-Heinox with its two bickering heads has set a pattern for the portrayal of similar creatures in other media, including the animated film Quest for Camelot (1998) and the public television children's program Dragon Tales (1999 onward).

William J. Green, III

The Green administration is also remembered for having brought young talent into the City government: Chaka Fattah received his first government job in Green's Commerce Department, one headed by Dick Doran; Ed Deseve, Green's finance director, went on to head the U.S. Office of Management and the Budget in the administration of President Bill Clinton; Bill Marrazo, a Green city commissioner, is now president of WHYY, Philadelphia's principal public television station.

XHCGA-TV

XHCGA-TV 6 was established in 1976 by the Mexican state of Aguascalientes with the support of the Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes to serve as the public television and radio broadcaster for the state.


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American Public Television

APT has also distributed special pledge shows to public television, including programs such as Liza's at the Palace...!, Anne of Green Gables, Carreras Domingo Pavarotti, Celine Dion: A New Day, Mike Douglas – Moments & Memories, Broadway: The Golden Age and Tony Bennett Duets: The Making of an American Classic.

Artarmon, New South Wales

The studios of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), a public television station, are located in Herbert Street.

Blalock–Taussig shunt

The 2004 HBO television movie Something the Lord Made, based on Washingtonian writer Katie McCabe's 1989 article of the same name, was made about his role in the historic Blue Baby surgery, as was the 2003 public television documentary Partners of the Heart.

Bob Herbert

This led to a position on WCBS-TV in New York, as a founding panelist of Sunday Edition in 1990, as well as becoming host of Hotline, a weekly issues program on New York public television.

Bonepony

Kentucky Educational Television (KET), Kentucky's statewide public television network, filmed their live performance over two nights for the KET-produced television series, Jubilee: A Celebration of American Music, featuring performances of bluegrass, blues, and other American roots music.

Bonnie Hammer

She began her career in television at WGBH, the public television station in Boston, where she produced This Old House and ZOOM.

Brian O'Doherty

For many years, O'Doherty was an influential member of the senior staff of the National Endowment for the Arts, first as director of the Visual Arts Program, and subsequently as director of the Media Arts Program, where he was responsible for the creation of such major public television series as American Masters and Great Performances.

C300

Canal 300, a public television channel operated by Televisió de Catalunya in Catalonia

Channel 23

Israeli Educational Television, a state-owned public television network in Israel

Chief Phil Lane Jr.

Lane is an award winning author and film producer with film credits including the National Public Television series "Images of Indians" with the late Will Sampson, "Walking With Grandfather", and "The Honor of All: The Story of Alkali Lake".

DCI Banks

On 9 January 2013, BBC Worldwide America announced a "landmark syndication deal" with public television stations in the U.S. for DCI Banks to be available on 166 PBS affiliate stations across the USA, "reaching an estimated 77% of U.S. TV households."

Don Gonyea

Gonyea is a 1978 graduate of Michigan State University, where he worked for the public television station, WKAR-TV, one of the first such university-based public television stations in the nation.

Gary Reams

He debated Democrat Tim Kaine on public television, persistently linking every question to the marijuana issue, which he regarded as relevant to all other political issues, including taxes, law enforcement, the environment, foreign policy, and public safety.

GBH

WGBX-TV (branded 'GBH 44), a public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Hudson Hotel

More recently, until 1997 the second through ninth floors served as the headquarters for public television station WNET; the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour was broadcast from the building.

Jake Boritt

In 2010 his film "759: Boy Scouts of Harlem" was broadcast nationally on public television via Maryland Public Television.

Jane Elizabeth Manning James

A 20-minute documentary based on James' life, Jane Manning James: Your Sister in the Gospel, premiered in 2005, and has been shown at This Is The Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake City, Utah, the 2005 annual conference of the Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR), and on public television (PBS).

Jon L. Mills

He has appeared on CNN's "Burden of Proof," Public Television's "Lehr Report," National Public Radio, ABC, BBC and other media.

Kanal 1

Kanal 1 (Turkey), a Turkish-language public television station and channel of an international version of Wheel of Fortune

L. M. Elliott

The author is currently featured in a series of video segments designed for educators which was produced by Washington, D.C. Public Television WETA-TV for their "Readingrockets" program, an on-line resource for educators involved in youth literacy.

Longinus Tower

It was from the Longinus Tower that, in 1952, Reinhold Holtstiege, transmitted the first public television programmes after World War II.

Maryland Public Television

Maryland Public Television has earned awards ranging from television Emmys for its quality productions to government citations for its volunteerism and educational accomplishments.

Mental Engineering

The Gruen Transfer, a similar program deconstructing advertisements, was launched by the Australian public television network in 2008.

Philip Sugden

In 1990, Philip and his wife were awarded grants from the Ohio Joint Projects in the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, to create a Public Television presentation and companion book based on their 1988 Cultural Arts Expedition to the Himalaya and Tibet.

Public Broadcasting Act of 1967

Public broadcasting consists of organizations such as CPB, Public Broadcasting Service, and National Public Radio, organizations independent of each other and of the local public television and radio stations across the country.

Raymond W. Smock

He was senior historical consultant to WGBH-TV public television in Boston on their 26-part telecourse, A Biography of America (2000).

Redd Griffin

Griffin left Shimer in 1958 to work in production at WTTW, Chicago's public television station.

Robert Korzeniowski

Since 2005 he worked for Polish Public Television as a chief of sport department and in 2007 he became a General Manager of TVP Sport, a new specialized channel in Poland.

RTVE Interactive

The Interactive Division at Corporación de Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), which is also known as RTVE.es, is responsible for the design, launch and management of digital products and services at the State-Owned Corporation and the multi-screen strategy for public television.

Sagarika Ghose

She is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) 1960 batch, erstwhile Director General of Doordarshan, the Indian public television network.

Stockbridge School of Agriculture

James Underwood Crockett, producer and host of the public television show The Victory Garden

Störtebeker Festival

Originally founded in 1959 as part of an East German culture initiative, it has become Germany's most successful open air theatre event, and is broadcast by public television network NDR.

Télam

The state's news media outlets were merged in 2001, and the agency joined public television (Canal 7) and public radio (LRA Radio Nacional) within the Servicio Nacional de Medios Públicos (National Service of Public Media).

Telluride Bluegrass Festival

According to the Library of Congress, the 1980 performance was filmed by Boulder public television and two CDs were made available.

The Muppets on Puppets

The special was produced in June 1968 at public television station WITF-TV in Hershey, Pennsylvania for National Educational Television (now PBS).

The Secret City Adventures

The series was produced by Maryland Public Television and aired on PBS and TVOntario in the late 1980s.

Tooske Ragas

In 2005 Breugel switched from RTL to the Dutch public television broadcasting association AVRO where she presented the Junior Songfestival, the presentation of the Televisierring and Help, ik word vader! (Help, I'm becoming a father).

United States Senate election in Michigan, 2008

On November 19 WGVU Public television hosted a Senatorial debate to which only Democratic Senator Carl Levin and Republican State Representative Jack Hoogendyk were invited.

Wanda Urbanska

She began writing professionally while still in high school for the Bangor Daily News in Maine and interned on-camera on Maine Public Television's live program, Maine News and Comment, during her senior year.

Water Education Foundation

In 2009 the Foundation won a regional Emmy award for the 2008 public television documentary, Salt of the Earth: Salinity in California’s Central Valley hosted by comedian Paul Rodriguez.

WGBH

WGBH-TV, a public television station based in Boston, Massachusetts

Willie Morris

One of Morris' books, Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood was made into a TV movie for Public Television by Disney and PBS Wonderworks and later re-titled The River Pirates in 1988 not far from where Morris lived.It starred Richard Farnsworth, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dixie Wade, Ryan Francis, Caryn West and Richard E. Council.

WNYE-TV

Among other WNYE-related productions, Secrets of New York has been syndicated nationally to public television stations, and it and Blueprint: New York City have been offered to the now-defunct digital cable and satellite network The Documentary Channel (both it and Halogen TV were replaced by Pivot in August 2013), which in turn has provided some programming to WNYE from its library.

WXXI-TV

WXXI's national public television productions include Warrior in Two Worlds, Echoes from the Ancients, Out of the Fire, Albert Paley: Man of Steel and Flight to Freedom.

XHBZC-TV

XHBZC channel 8, known on-air as Canal 8, is an educational and public television station owned and operated by the government of State of Baja California Sur in La Paz.

XHCMO-TV

Canal 3 is an educational and public television network owned and operated by the government of State of Morelos in Cuernavaca.

XHST-TV

Trecevisión is an educational and public television network owned and operated by the government of State of Yucatán in Merida, Yucatán.

Yan Can Cook

Martin's style of presentation is infused with a little bit of humour, with the series shown widely on public television in the United States, on Food Network in Canada and on HTV in Vietnam.