Jimmy Kimmel has inspired an unlikely corporate messaging shift at PBS—and it’s definitely not Sesame Street-approved.

WETA in Washington, D.C., and its news and public affairs hub PBS News announced the two weekend programs that will replace PBS News Weekend in January. Horizons will premiere Saturday, Jan. 17, at 6 ...

CONWAY, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Arkansas’ statewide public television network will end its affiliation with PBS starting in July 2026, the Arkansas Educational Television Commission announced this week.

The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely. By Benjamin Mullin Arkansas PBS on Thursday severed ties with ...

No one ever went wrong throwing together a piano, some upbeat songs and a bunch of kids wondering whether the show really must go on. It’s a mainstay of musical theater. It just doesn’t always happen ...

In a jawdropper of a move, members of the Arkansas PBS Commission voted Thursday to chuck “NOVA”, “Antiques Roadshow” and “Sesame Street” in favor of cheaper, homegrown content instead. The wholesale ...

On the cusp of turning 100 Saturday, TV legend Dick Van Dyke gets the “American Masters” treatment in the new PBS film “Starring Dick Van Dyke” (9 p.m. Friday, WQED-TV). The two-hour documentary ...

The six-part documentary explores the United States’ founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, examining how these “turned the world upside-down.” It airs nightly through Nov. 21.

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished.” Cultural ...

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

The program will bring America’s World War I story to life through the lens of The Great Gatsby, the legendary novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and of five actual figures from the war. It was created, ...

In August, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut down, after the Trump Administration pulled $1.1 billion in funding for the organization—funds that usually go to funding NPR and PBS. As a ...