Selected press items from the period Friday, July 25 through Sunday, August 3, 2008.
“New Yorkers are lucky to have one of the strongest public television stations in the country. Where the rest of the nation calls it PBS, we know it as Channel 13, and for more than a dozen years, it has hosted some of the most cutting edge filmmaking for, by and about New Yorkers, during the annual Reel New York Film Festival,” gushes Indiwire.
Television Quarterly features back to back articles about Bill Baker and Neal Shapiro. (See pages 34-44).
“Beginning this week, SundayArts, the weekly arts and cultural program produced by Thirteen/WNET New York, will feature segments of the award-winning Bloomberg Television program Bloomberg Muse,” announces MarketWatch. “‘This is a great, natural alliance,” said Neal Shapiro, Thirteen CEO, President and SundayArts host, ‘and a win-win situation for Thirteen and our viewers. Both Thirteen and Bloomberg strive to bring the best arts and culture to the widest possible audience.’”
A feature story in the New York Post covers the final concert of The Police. “The show will benefit local public television stations Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21, which anticipate it will be the single largest fund-raising event in public TV history.”
Wide Angle’s Aaron Brown is mentioned in the USA Weekend Who’s News blog. Brown was recently a guest on News Talk Online, and his interview was noted by this blogger, eliciting the following comment: “Hallelujah!!! At last a man who is not afraid to stray from just reporting American events, and who sees the significance and importance on understanding how what happens in other countries impacts on our own country. He was a breath of fresh air.”
Channel 11’s Marvin Scott interviewed NY Comptroller William Thompson about the state’s economy after the live taping of Thirteen/WNET’s New York in the Red: The Governor Speaks. Susan Arbetter blogs about the program on the Times Union website. The entire program can be viewed on thirteen.org.
Bill Baker is “among 10 ‘Giants of Broadcasting’ to be honored by the Library of American Broadcasting in New York on Sept. 25,” reports TV Technology.
