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Here are the latest posts about PBS on Writers Write:

  • Obama Launches Big Bird Ad, PBS Wants it Taken Down (2012-10-09): Mitt Romney said in the first debate that he loves Big Bird, but he would cut funding to PBS.

  • New Indecency Fines Threaten PBS (2006-07-28): The new indecency laws passed by Congress in response to the legendary Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Superbowl Halftime Show are now thretening PBS.

  • PBS Launching Media and Technology Blog (2006-01-14): Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is launching a new blog called MediaShift on January 18th.

  • PBS Launches Resource for Parents (2002-11-01): PBS made one of its biggest website launches in years with the launch of PBS Parents.

  • PBS Kids Website Relaunches (2000-02-02): The PBS Kids website has relaunched with a comprehensive backstage look at PBS Kids show characters and engaging educational activities.

  • New Animated Television Series Based on Clifford The Big Red Dog (2000-01-10): PBS and Scholastic Productions have announced that Clifford The Big Red Dog, based on the children's books, will launch as an animated television series on PBS in fall 2000.

  • AOL and PBS Enter Strategic Online, On-Air Alliance (2000-01-10): America Online (AOL) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) have announced a 3-year strategic alliance.

  • PBS Launches Website Exploring Wonders of the African World (1999-10-27): PBS Online has launched Wonders of the African World With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  • PBS Online Helps Audiences Get On Target with Y2K (1999-10-07): With less than three months to go before the millennial date change, leading Y2K experts speculate that the public will respond to the potential of Y2K-related shortages and outages in one of two ways: 1) panic, and adopt an "every man for himself" attitude, or 2) complacency, and do nothing because they assume that the Y2K 'crisis' will never materialize.

  • The Wilderness Society Launches Mini Site: America's Wilderness (1999-09-03): In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, The Wilderness Society is launching a new mini website, America's Wilderness.

  • New Website Explores How American Couples Bridge Differences (1999-08-25): What happens when two people who seem very different from each other fall in love? What challenges do they face? What joys do they discover? A new website on PBS Online explores how Americans bridge differences in relationships by combining a "quilt" of first-person stories contributed by visitors to the site.

  • Enjoy Summer Vacation With WayBack, US History for Kids (1999-06-09): "Summer Vacation," the newest issue of WayBack, US History for Kids on The American Experience Online takes an entertaining look at the fine art of summer vacations past and present.

  • Blue Skies for Fly Girls on The American Experience Online (1999-05-26): In the midst of World War II, the call went out: women with flight experience were needed to fly for the military as part of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).

  • MacArthur Returns With The American Experience Online (1999-04-28): No soldier has ever captured the American imagination more than Douglas MacArthur.

  • Surviving the Dust Bowl on The American Experience (1999-04-27): The American Experience Online's "Surviving the Dust Bowl" chronicles the story of the disastrous dust storms of the 1930s that swept across the Southern Plains.

  • Down on the Farm With The American Experience (1999-04-20): A family farm.

  • New Holocaust Feature on The American Experience Online (1999-04-14): To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Ha'Shoah), The American Experience Online has launched America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference, a new website that accompanies the re-broadcast of The American Experience documentary of the same name airing Monday, April 12, at 9pm on PBS.

  • Grand Canyon Exploration Website Launches (1999-04-07): It was a daring mission to explore the last uncharted territory in the United States; the Grand Canyon.

  • The American Experience Launches Riding the Rails Website (1999-03-31): At the height of the Great Depression, 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America.

  • American Experience Online Launches Lindbergh Feature (1999-03-25): To a generation of Americans, Charles A.

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