Author Archive for Bill Knight

Screens: Check out what you can see by pointing and clicking this month

‘Human Footprint’ series will address the notion of ‘The Enemy of My Enemy …,’ on PBS; ‘The Summer Hikaru Died’ anime manga series and ‘The Gringo Hunters’ are on Netflix; ‘Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story’ is a documentary about the iconic 1975 Spielberg film on National Geographic; ‘Washington Black’ tracks adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black on a Barbados plantation on Hulu

Bill Knight: Will public media go dark and silent?

BILL KNIGHT

President Trump’s executive orders, cuts in GOP’s big bill are the ‘most serious threat ever faced by public broadcasting.’ So what will that mean to local agencies WCBU and WTVP, which rely on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?

Both City, County approve Heidelberg lawsuit settlements

The $1.2 million total payout to Heidelberg’s estate resolves the last active case tied to the conviction of Heidelberg for an attempted burglary at the former Bellevue Drive-In theater in 1970, when Sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Espinoza was shot and killed.

WTVP receives grant money from CPB

‘Fiscal Year 2024 grant funding [received] was $930,851.’ In addition, the station received 70% of its CPB grant funding for this year: $685,780. About one-third of WTVP’s budget comes from CPB to help buy programming such as ‘Nature’ and ‘PBS NewsHour.’