[Peace-discuss] NYT: Bill Moyers back on Public TV

[Robert Naiman]

I take this to mean that WILL-TV, if it wanted, could pick up Bill
Moyers' new show...

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/bill-moyers-returns-to-public-television-but-not-pbs/


AUGUST 22, 2011, 5:27 PM
Bill Moyers Returns to Public Television, but Not PBS

By ELIZABETH JENSEN
Bill Moyers says he is returning to public television in January, but
he won’t be found on the PBS lineup.
His new hourlong weekly show, called “Moyers & Company,” will focus on
one-on-one interviews with people not often heard on television,
“thinkers who can help us understand the chaos of this time,” Mr.
Moyers said in a telephone interview. “We’re going to be concerned
with the state of democracy and the state of affairs, but we will
leave the daily and weekly story to others and try to do the back
story.”

The program will be based at WNET in New York City and distributed
free to public television stations by American Public Television, an
alternative distributor to PBS. Stations will be able to broadcast it
at whatever time they choose. In a letter to public television
executives announcing the new program, Mr. Moyers, who is 77, said
that WNET was looking at showing the program on Sundays at 6 p.m.

Earlier this year, Mr. Moyers, who retired from PBS in April 2010,
said he had received $2 million in financing from the Carnegie
Corporation of New York for the new show, but PBS had told him it
couldn’t find an appropriate time slot.

Since word went out on Monday afternoon, Mr. Moyers said he had heard
from a number of stations that they were interested in broadcasting
the program. He said he had also heard from many former viewers in
recent months. “There’s an audience there that missed the campfire,”
he said.

Anne Bentley, a PBS spokeswoman, said in a statement, “Bill Moyers has
been a distinctive voice on public television for decades,” adding
that his new project “will build on this legacy.”

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
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