Nearly 40 million people tuned in for at least one episode of Ken Burns’ documentary The Civil War as it unfurled over five consecutive nights on public-access television. The miniseries pulled in an ...

Today in History for Nov. 21: In 1766, the first theatre in the U.S. -- the "Southfork" -- opened in Philadelphia. In 1783, the first free flight was made by two men who rose 100 metres above Paris in ...

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giant animals, according to scientists ...

Public media, including the Public Broadcasting System, finds itself in uncharted waters in the aftermath of the almost complete shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on October 1. In ...

The Public Broadcasting Service is not in good shape at the moment, to put it mildly: We’re swiftly coming up on November, when the broadcaster would normally get its life-sustaining infusion of funds ...

“I’m most worried about the most vulnerable stations, so I have spent a fair amount of time working with a few others and some key foundations to try to put a corpus of money together that will give ...

PBS SoCal announced a huge telethon featuring a variety of actors, hosts and musicians to celebrate 55 years of public television. Josh Groban, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ken Burns, Ziggy Marley, Lily Tomlin, ...

Tropical Storm Melissa had slowed to a near stop by Wednesday morning as it moved west-northwest over the Caribbean Sea at 2 mph, a snail's pace that weather forecasters said could bring lasting heavy ...

PBS Masterpiece has revealed the premiere date for its adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo tsarring Sam Claflin (Daisy Jones and the Six) and Jeremy Irons (The Borgias). The latest version of the ...

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