30 years ago, there were no daily business news program on television…until Nightly Business Report came along. See NBR’s 30th Anniversary site–with video from 1979, reporters’ favorite stories, interviews with Steve Forbes and Warren Buffett on the last 30 years of financial news, and much more. See features.
The economic crisis affects all income and social brackets. The rising costs of everything from shelter to medicine have taken the luster out of baby boomers and seniors’ “golden years” or worse, put them into deep debt. Americans over 50 account for about a 25% of all delinquent mortgages. Watch program now.
Political blogger David Sirota and Wall St. Journal columnist Thomas Frank talk about their hopes and expectations of this administration. Also, Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell about the significance of this milestone. Watch now.
Masterpiece Theatre recently aired a two-part version of Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’. For a limited time–until Feb. 1, 2009–you can watch both parts in their entirety, online. Watch now.
Watch the full episode of “Is that Skunk?” online, tell us your skunk stories, see adorable baby skunks, or guess how the filmmakers got the gross-out skunk-spray shot. All that and more at Nature online…go now!
Wide Angle’s new mini-series Women, War & Peace challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. Wide Angle begins this dialogue on the changing nature of war, with a panel discussion on “The Changing Face of War”. Watch.
Governor Jon Corzine answers your questions about New Jersey’s government, economy, and other topics. Steve Adubato of Caucus NJ and Inside Trenton hosts. Corzine on the Line is a quarterly Q&A conducted by the Governor live on Thirteen. Watch now.
For the first time in years, This Old House heads to Brooklyn for an NYC renovation, starting on-air January 24 at 7:00 pm. A 104-year-old row house in the Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood will convert from a boarding house to a 3-family home. See the project progress in real time here.
In this new book, NOW on PBS executive producer John Siceloff and writer Jason Maloney investigate the topic that became the theme of election 2008: change in America. Enter to win a copy of the book autographed by Siceloff and NOW host David Brancaccio. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009.
Devorah Sperber is a visual artist who uses thread spools and everyday items to represent pixels of well-known images. Her work explores the links between art, science and technology. In this “SundayArts Process”, she demonstrates the making of a large-scale piece, and discusses the tricks of perception in viewing it. Watch.
