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...clubs stoke the Who craze by holding auctions, selling Who paraphernalia, publishing newsletters and raising money for nonprofit TV stations so they can screen the series. Fund raising for the Doctor pulled in $40,000 in 90 minutes last March for Philadelphia's PBS station...
Viet Nam: A Television History (PBS). With its painstaking marshaling of detail, this 13-hour documentary was television as the first draft of history. It was, by turns, poignant and chilling and never blinked...
...63rd birthday last week. Aside from the fact that the changing of the guard happened quietly and smoothly, a rare occurrence at any network headquarters, the biggest surprise was the man chosen as Frank's replacement: Lawrence Grossman, 52, president of the Public Broad casting Service (PBS) since...
Some say he also has a lot to contribute to the troubled news network. Grossman won general applause for guiding PBS through several financial crunches, and leaves a strengthened, and solvent, system with twice as many regular viewers (86 million) as it had when he arrived...
...helped develop PBS's healthy roster of news programs, including the MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour, Inside Story, Frontline and the critically acclaimed 13-part documentary series Vietnam: A Television His tory. NBC News, by contrast, has been losing ground. Two weeks ago, the brilliant but un profitable Overnight left the air. Today, once the sunrise champ, now has to fight the CBS Morning News for second place, be hind ABC's Good Morning America...