Selected press items featuring WNET.org, its programs, projects and services from the period Friday, July 18 through Thursday, July 24.

Wide Angle received highlights in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Newsday, Reading Eagle, Record Online, and elsewhere. Wide Angle: Birth of a Surgeon is recommended by TimeOut New York, while the audio news release for the program was picked up by more than 900 stations for a total audience of nearly 11 million listeners.

New York Post TV Week interviewed veteran record producer Phil Ramone before his live appearance in WLIW21’s studio for the U.S. broadcast premiere of Billy Joel: The Stranger Live. Newsday TV Editor Andy Edelstein called the concert, “An invaluable piece of rock and roll history.”

“Long snubbed by the large Hispanic networks, children’s programming is finding a fertile ground in smaller, newer TV upstarts, prominently V-me, which boasts one of the nation’s largest catalog of Spanish-language children programming,” writes Multichannel News. “V-me this year is premiering the first Hispanic version of LazyTown, a pre-school program currently airing in 118 countries.”

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly gets a write-up in the Star Bulletin of Honolulu. “PBS Hawaii has joined the 280 public television stations nationwide that carry the weekly newsmagazine show as it begins its 12th season.”