CPB-Funded Programs & Projects
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A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway
Television
A one-hour documentary by Rick Sebak and WQED on America's first coast-to-coast highway and the people who helped to finance and construct the road that ran from Times Square in New York to Lincoln ...
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 Experience: History of New Orleans
Television
An American Experience city-biography two-hour special on New Orleans that explored the city's cultural heritage, racial history, class structures and struggles against the forces of nature over the ...
American RadioWorks
Radio
This grant would fund planning, start-up, and development of a new weekly documentary series for public radio. The program would be hosted by Ray Suarez and would build on American RadioWorks' track ...
Andrew Jackson and the Shaping of America
Television
A two-part series of one-hour shows examining one of the most important and controversial presidencies in American history and the issues that bitterly divided the nation during the tumultuous ...
Between the Lions
Television
Funding for the award-winning children's reading show.
Brown Is the New Green (formerly Latinos: Marketing and Media and Latinos: Here and Now)
Television
A 60-minute program that surveys Latino life in America, using the themes of origins, politics, marketing and media, and assimilation, as explored by comic George Lopez.
Carrier
Television
A 10-part reality series tracking the crew of the U.S.S. Nimitz on a six-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf from its home port of San Diego in 2005. This character-driven series provides an ...
Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain
Television
A two-hour special on the rise and fall of de facto pluralism in medieval Spain and the creation of a society that was a part of both Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East. The documentary will ...
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, ...
Design Squad
Television
Design Squad is a new PBS reality competition series targeting 9- to 12-year-olds. The series has an accompanying outreach campaign and Web 35 site that aims to inspire a new generation of engineers ...
Dissonance & Harmony (aka Arabic Music in America)
Television
A group of top Arab singers visits the United States for the first time under the direction of Miles Copeland, who has managed internationally acclaimed performers Sting, The Police, The Moody Blues, ...
Égalité for All
Television
A one-hour documentary about the only successful slave revolution in history and the creation of the world's first black republic: modern-day Haiti.
Engaging Americans
Radio
This project will engage American audiences and the public radio system in a unique voter-driven approach to coverage for the 2008 election. MPR will also use the opportunity as a vehicle to ...
Fair Game
Radio
A call center worker in the Philippines, a Fijian military contractor in Kuwait, a street vendor in Bulgaria, a beauty pageant surgeon in Venezuela -- these are the types of workers who will be ...
Flashback Research and Development
Television
Flashback is a multiplatform game and television show that allows students to "move backwards" in time by discovering facts and completing curriculum-based missions in a competitive race-type format ...
Global Perspectives on Election
Radio
Global Perspectives on Election 2008 is a collaborative, multiplatform initiative designed to provide the American public with distinctive global coverage of the 2008 U.S. presidential elections. ...
God in America Research and Development
Television
An R&D project for a new six-part series on 400 years of religion in America and how various beliefs have shaped the country. The R&D phase will last eight months and result in a series proposal that ...
In Performance at the White House: 20th Anniversary of Thelonious Monk
Television
A one-hour special for the In Performance at the White House series to celebrate jazz and the 20th anniversary of the Thelonious Monk Institute, set against the backdrop of a gala evening hosted by ...
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Television
CPB provides annual funding support to the Independent Television Service (ITVS), an organization that acquires, funds, and presents to public television independently produced programs from a ...
Islam vs. Islamists Presenting Station Package
Television
OPB will package the Crossroads-funded film Islam vs. Islamists, with on-camera host introduction, and produce an in-studio panel discussion of the issues raised in the film, as well as the style and ...
It's a Big, Big World
Television
It's a Big, Big World is an innovative new PBS preschool series, targeting children aged 3 to 6. Age-appropriate scientific concepts are explored and reinforced through engaging stories and songs. ...
Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures II
Television
The Jacques Cousteau legacy continues with his son, Jean- Michel, and grandchildren Celine and Fabien. Season II will feature a two-part program, one hour each, exploring the Amazon and its impact on ...
Less Is More
Radio
New Hampshire Public Radio Inc. will launch a magazine-style talk program that will be a laboratory for developing appealing, yet affordable, local public radio programming. Rather than employ a ...
Library of Congress: Medal for Popular Song
Television
A 90-minute gala tribute special that will honor a contemporary composer, songwriter, or performer whose lifetime of work represents a singular contribution to American popular music. The honoree ...
Masterpiece Theatre
Television
Funding for the first two years of a three-year strategic plan to increase the number of new programs, reinforce relationships between the show and local stations and their members, and tie the show ...
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.
NAPT 30th Anniversary Campaign
Television
The production of a video commemorating the 30th anniversary of NAPT and the career of founding executive director Frank Bythe as he retires. The video will be screened at the American Indian Film ...
National Program Service (NPS) 2007
Television
CPB provides funding for the PBS National Program Service (NPS) in support of children's and primetime television programming fed by satellite to member stations across the country. CPB investment in ...
Native Radio Theater
Radio
The Native Radio Theater Project will produce 12 audio theater productions over two years for national distribution to Native public radio stations, to mainstream public radio stations and through ...
Nature
Television
Funding for the first two years of a three-year strategic plan to increase the number of new programs, reinforce relationships between the show and local stations and their members, and tie the show ...
Nightly Business Report: The Gulf States Rebuild
Television
Nightly Business Report specials on the rebuilding efforts in the Gulf States following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Two 30- minute programs were broadcast in early 2006 and then repackaged as a ...
Nova
Television
Funding for the first two years of a three-year strategic plan to increase the number of new programs, reinforce relationships between the show and local stations and their members, and tie the show ...
Nova: The Storm That Drowned a City
Television
Nova examines the disaster inflicted on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and how the ostensible protection offered by the city's levees was no match for the storm. Through eyewitness accounts and ...
NPR Zack [working title]
Radio
Research and development of a new two-hour weekday morning news program aimed at curious, college-educated 29- to 44- year-olds. The program will be available for HD radio multicasts, primary ...
Open Studio
Radio
The Open Studio Project is a collaborative project for bringing new, diverse, and creative voices, perspectives, and storytelling styles into public radio. The project, headed by award-winning ...
PBS Live Coverage and Washington Week Specials: Confirmation Hearings on the Nomination of John Roberts to Be Chief Justice of the United States
Television
CPB and PBS jointly funded coverage of the confirmation hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to be chief justice of the United States. Live gavel-to-gavel coverage was provided by The NewsHour, ...
PBS Live Coverage and Washington Week Specials: Confirmation Hearings on the Nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. to Be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Television
CPB and PBS jointly funded coverage of the confirmation hearings on the nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Live gavel-to-gavel coverage was provided by ...
PBS Live Coverage: Confirmation Hearings on the Nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden to Be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Television
CPB and PBS jointly funded coverage of the confirmation hearings on the nomination of General Michael V. Hayden to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Live gavelto- gavel coverage was ...
PBS Strategic Growth Fund
Television
As part of its National Program Service (NPS) agreement with PBS, CPB provided additional funding for PBS's Strategic Growth Fund to support national programming projects that meet needs identified ...
Public Health Initiative
Television
Four two-hour specials devoted to U.S. health issues, with extensive related outreach, promotion, and Web resources, form the cornerstones of public television's health initiative, which follows the ...
Radio Lab
Radio
Radio Lab, hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, is a new style of radio program. Each episode explores a single idea (such as time, stress, consciousness) from a variety of perspectives, using ...
Ready To Learn: Graphic Design Flash Programming Provider Online Professional Development Course for Preschool Teachers
Web
FableVision created online interactive applications using Adobe Flash program to be included in online courses delivered via the Desire2Learn course management system through PBS TeacherLine.
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.
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin: Behind Closed Doors
Television
A six-part series of one-hour programs co-produced with the BBC History Unit that brings history to life by dramatically recreating the key moments during World War II when the three most powerful ...
Secret Life of Girls Around the World
Radio
The Secret Life of Girls is a new radio series from the award-winning Kitchen Sisters, who have captivated public radio listeners with their series Hidden Kitchens and Lost and Found Sound. This new ...
Security Versus Liberty
Television
An America at a Crossroads film examining the question: "Security or Liberty?" by taking a personal look at the people who work on either side of the question post-9/11. Using Portland, Oregon, as a ...
Stand Up
Television
An America at a Crossroads documentary on the response of American Arab and Muslim communities to events of September 11 and the war on terror, as told through the lives and humor of a small number ...
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 ...
StoryCorps Griot
Radio
The StoryCorps African American Initiative will construct and launch a mobile recording booth that will travel the country for one year to capture the voices, experiences, and life stories of African ...