CPB-Funded Programs & Projects
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African American World Interstitials
Television
Interstitial materials for broadcast to increase awareness of public TV's commitment to diversity, the African-American World portal Web site and African-American programming from both PBS and NPR.
Age of AIDS
Television
A four-part series of one-hour episodes on the history of AIDS, which chronicles the epidemic from its roots in Africa to its status today as a global crisis. The series was presented by Frontline.
American Family
Television
Funding for a contemporary drama about a Latino family in Los Angeles. A primetime programming project in collaboration with PBS.
American Love Stories Web Site
Web
Continuation of the pioneering Web dialogue section of the major national series American Love Story.
American Sound Portraits
Radio
Award-wining producer David Isay, known for his cutting- edge audio profiles of men and women surviving in the margins of society, will create two half-hour documentary specials as part of the ...
Art in the 21st Century
Television
Funding for the four-part (60 minutes per episode) series exclusively devoted to contemporary visual art and artists working in the United States today.
Auschwitz and the Nazi State
Television
Six-part (60 minutes per episode) documentary series about the design, operation and business of Auschwitz. The series, to be broadcast January 2005 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the ...
Beyond War
Radio
A three-part documentary series exploring fundamental questions of war and peace.
Broadway
Television
Six-part (60 minutes per episode) performance series that explores and celebrates how the Broadway musical came into being, how it changed over the course of the 20th century, and what it tells us ...
Colonial House
Television
Eight-part (60 minutes per episode) series of an experiment in living history, tackling head on an iconic moment in American history when power began to shift from the old world to the new, with 25 ...
Crisis and Conflict: 108th Congress
Television
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer special to capture issues and conflicts surrounding the start of the 108th Congress post 9/11. A special programming project in collaboration with PBS in response to the ...
CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud: Contrasting World Views
Television
Four-part (60 minutes per episode) documentary that explores the two world views of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud.
Culture Clash
Television
Pilot of the proposed public affairs weekly half-hour series hosted by Michael Medved that examines pop culture stories and issues that have significant impact on our daily lives. A primetime ...
Day to Day
Radio
The hour-long broadcast provides breaking news coverage, comprehensive domestic and international reporting, and a mix of diverse voices and viewpoints in a daily exploration of American ideas, ...
Despues de las Guerras - Central America After the Wars
Radio
Veteran producer Maria Martin will produce 26 pieces -- to be distributed via NPR's Latino USA and Radio Bilingue's Linea Abierta -- to inform both English- and Spanish-speaking public radio ...
Flood After Ten
Radio
Funds to develop and manage a student intern program at WUIS/WIPA using students from John Wood Community College. The program will produce a series focusing on the long-term impact of the Great ...
Hearing Voices
Radio
Some of public radio's top producers weave first person narratives from everyday people into sound-portraits for established national programs. Their stories document an America not so much divided ...
Let the Good Times Roll
Radio
Funding to create 13 new hour-long programs exploring the history of R and B, the post WWII African-American music that became rock and roll and fostered social change. Soul singer Jerry Butler hosts ...
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Web Site
Web
Expansion of the Lewis & Clark Web site for enhanced interactivity, introduction of locally-contributed station content, expanded information on Native Americans, updates on contributors to the ...
Living Machine
Television
Four-part (60 minutes per episode) science and natural history series that explores some of the most challenging environmental issues of our time, global climate change, loss of biodiversity, ...
Lost and Found Food: Stories of Land, Kitchen, and Community
Radio
Funds to produce a series of up to 12 original programs exploring American life and culture through food. The series will air on NPR's Morning Edition or All Things Considered.
Madison Square Garden
Television
120-minute documentary film about Madison Square Garden as part of America's consciousness and cultural history.
Mandela: An Audio History
Radio
A three-part series marking the 10th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa weaves together home recordings, archival interviews, historical news audio, and ...
Memorial Day and Capitol Fourth Concerts
Television
Funding for the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth Concert on the Capitol grounds and the Mall.
Moments to Remember
Radio
Funds to produce 245 evergreen, two-minute features to increase public understanding of African-American history. This program, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, highlights little-known facts about ...
Musicians In Their Own Words
Radio
The Musicians in Their Own Words project features a diverse range of performers -- classical, jazz, and beyond -- in intimate, first-person stories. The project aims to enrich listeners' experience ...
Neighborhood Stories
Radio
Funds to complete the series and create an "audio blueprint" of a neighborhood. Davis also will set up an oral history booth as a tool to find new stories.
Nevada Matters
Radio
Funds produce a new local daily public affairs program, featuring news, interviews, commentary, and listener call-in about issues of concern to the Las Vegas region.
News Crewz
Web
To develop on-line dialogue technical capabilities to support the NewsHour Extra and Global Kids' Current Events Youth Circle.
News Hour with Jim Lehrer Iraq War Coverage
Television
Extended NewsHour with Jim Lehrer coverage for the War with Iraq in spring 2003. A special programming project in collaboration with PBS in response to the events of September 11, 2001.
NewsHour Extra and Global Kids' Current Events Youth Circle
Television
Content will be drawn from NewsHour stories and provided to Global Kids news crews to seed conversations around public affairs and current events.
OchoTEEN
Radio
Melissa Giraud, a teacher turned public radio producer, will weave archival recordings, stories and letters from her first 4th grade class of mostly Mexican-American children together with ...
Oil: The World over a Barrel
Television
Three-part (60 minutes per episode) series that explores the global oil industry in the form of a journey, using first-person narrative to draw together the disparate threads of the story.
P.O.V.: Talk Back
Television
Viewer response segments about P.O.V. episodes, offering a unique venue for Americans from all walks of life to exercise one of our most cherished rights -- freedom of speech -- and challenge the ...
Pacific Time
Radio
Funds to produce 104 weekly, half-hour installments of this program focusing on the deep connections between the United States and Asian communities on the Pacific Rim and to increase carriage on ...
Perilous Fight (aka America at War in Color)
Other
Extended broadcast rights in perpetuity for PTV audiences for Perilous Fight program that chronicled war experiences using first-ever color footage.
Public Radio Weekend
Radio
Funding for research, preproduction and piloting of a new live, national program service combining news and cultural programming to strengthen public service on weekends.
Radio Tag
Radio
Funds to produce four episodes and a companion Web site for a pilot featuring the interrelated stories of real people. Reminiscent of "serial radio," each episode will relate to the one that came ...
Reading Rainbow Village
Web
Web site based on the PBS children's programming series Reading Rainbow, in which students apply their literacy and creative problem-solving skills to authentic learning projects that are fun and ...
Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly
Television
Half-hour weekly series in the magazine-style format on the topics covering religion and ethics across America for national broadcast on PBS.
Reporting America at War, Embedded Reporters Segment
Television
To include timely topic of "embedded reporters" during the recent war in Iraq as part of the Reporting America at War series. A special programming project in collaboration with PBS in response to ...
Road to Recovery Pre-Production I and II
Television
Pre-production activities including filming of events as they occur for efforts to rebuild the World Trade Center "Ground Zero" site in New York City. A special programming project in collaboration ...
Secret Files of The Inquisition
Television
Four-part (60 minutes per episode) series tracing the history of the Inquisition over six centuries that describes the western world's most potent religion and its determination to maintain power at ...
Skinwalkers: Coyote Waits
Television
The third episode of the Mystery! series based on Tony Hillerman's novels about the two detectives in a Native American community in the American Southwest. A primetime programming project in ...
Skinwalkers: Thief of Time
Television
The second episode of the Mystery! series based on Tony Hillerman's novels about the two detectives in a Native American community in the American Southwest. A primetime programming project in ...
Special Coverage of the War in Iraq
Radio
Funds to help support special radio and Web-based news coverage of the war in Iraq and its aftermath.
Special War-Related Coverage
Radio
Funds to provide special Middle East news coverage and to broaden reporting in that part of the globe. In particular, PRI will examine the issues that underlie the conflict in Iraq - the social, ...
StoryCorps
Radio
This grant will support continuation of StoryCorps, the revolutionary public radio initiative to instruct and inspire Americans to record one another's stories in sound. Edited excerpts from these ...
Studio 360
Radio
Funding for national production and distribution of this weekly arts and culture program that explores all forms of creative expression through a mix of stories, interviews, documentaries, and ...
The Blues
Television
Seven-part (90 minutes per episode) documentary series about the evolution of African-American music, the blues, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, offering a series of impressionistic and ...