Word: pbs
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...It’s a huge setback for us,” said Emily R. Murphy, ’03, the Treasurer of EWC, of PBS not sponsoring the show this year...
...annual ‘An Evening with Champions’ (EWC) is facing a serious setback this year as Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) pulled out of their deal to televise the show, making it the first time in 25 years that the show will not appear on national television...
Those organizing EWC this year said they don’t know why PBS is not sponsoring the show this year, although Co-Chair of the Planning Committee Alyssa M. Varley, ’02, speculated that the decision was probably due to a marketing scheme...
...best-selling memoir, this one on life after the White House. Hillary Clinton got an $8 million advance for her book, and some critics expect it will be far more interesting than Bill's. Meanwhile, a new museum for Mamie Doud Eisenhower is being completed in Broomfield, Colo.; PBS is toying with a series on White House partners; and there is talk of a television drama about a White House family that would center on a fictional First Lady. No doubt she will be a curvaceous woman of intelligence, strength and wicked humor who saves, if not the world...
...Still, some historians, including Princeton University's Sean Wilentz, have a point when they worry that McCullough's type of portraiture - in common with PBS productions like Rick Burns' 'Civil War'- may represent a sort of glossy historical Norman Rockwellism that highlights personal drama in a PEOPLE magazine kind of way and pays insufficient attention to surrounding economic, social, cultural, and political contexts...