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NEW YORK, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TheStreet, Inc. (Nasdaq: TST), a leading digital financial media company, announced today that it will be the first sponsor of Nightly Business Report (NBR) since NBR was acquired by CNBC, First in Business Worldwide. Nightly Business Report reaches 96% of U.S. households.* NBR is also seen on public television's national news and documentary channel, WORLD. "TheStreet is delighted to support the iconic Nightly Business Report and its...
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. and MIAMI, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, announced today its intention to purchase the rights to Nightly Business Report (NBR), a leading evening business news program, from national investment firm Atalaya Capital Management. CNBC will begin producing the series exclusively for public television from its Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ on Monday, March 4. (Logo:...
Season nine features multipart special for women investors, "Great Investors" Bob Doll and Matthew McLennan, "Financial Thought Leaders" Charles Ellis, David Rosenberg and Francois Trahan, and other investment luminaries NEW YORK, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, "Greed can be good!" Weekly financial series Consuelo Mack WealthTrack reveals how you can make a positive impact with your investments and make money at the same time with a new,...
Multi-platform SERIES represents KCET's first large-scale national distribution initiative since becoming independent Caregiving series features leading experts on aging, including acclaimed author Gail Sheehy, as well as personal stories from Patricia Richardson, Monica Potter, Hector Elizondo, Robert David Hall, Sandra Tsing Loh and Steve Lopez. LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- KCET, the nation's largest independent public television station serving Southern...
ARTISTS INCLUDE THE RECENTLY REUNITED BEACH BOYS, TRAIN, MOBY, CHEAP TRICK and COLBIE CAILLAT PREMIERE EPISODE FEATURES THE SECRET SISTERS WITH T-BONE BURNETT, ELVIS COSTELLO AND JAKOB DYLAN NEW YORK, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Front Row Center, a new music television series that brings the live concert experience home, is scheduled to debut its inaugural season on public television stations across the country beginning April, 2012 (check local listings). For the...
NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill Moyers is back on TV - and online. Continuing his long-running conversation with the American public, Moyers returns to television in mid-January with Moyers & Company, a weekly series the veteran journalist says will try to make sense of our tumultuous times, "for myself and hopefully for anyone who wants to keep me company." The new series begins with three broadcasts exploring how America's gross inequality is no accident, but...
New Season Features Adele, The Fray, Death Cab for Cutie, and Kid Rock NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The fourth season of the innovative music series Live from the Artists Den will premiere nationwide on public television beginning February 3, 2012 (check local listings). The New York Emmy-nominated show connects music fans with a remarkable line-up of icons and emerging stars performing in unique and historic venues. The groundbreaking new season features...
NEW YORK, March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Stanley Tucci brings his love of food, wine, and culture to public television in VINE TALK this April (check local listings). In New York, the half-hour episodic series premieres Thursday, April 7 at 10:30 p.m. (ET) on THIRTEEN and Monday, April 11 at 8:30 p.m. (ET) on WLIW21. Tucci will lead an ever-changing celebrity panel through a blind taste test each week. The panel will sniff, swirl, and sip wines as they talk about their current projects and...
Documentary Helps Viewers Avoid Becoming Victims PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 5, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bernie Madoff. Everyone knows his name. He conned investors out of billions of dollars. But how did he do it? How did this man get otherwise intelligent, rational and sometimes wealthy people to turn over their life savings? Amazingly, con criminals and "fraudsters" like Madoff are able to trick people into buying phantom investments that are nothing more than Ponzi schemes....
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Newseum is launching "The Future of News," a new 10-part television series featuring lively, cutting-edge conversations with well-known journalists and new media pioneers about the evolution of news reporting in an Internet age. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080919/NEWSEUMLOGO) The initial 10 programs will be hosted by Frank Sesno, award-winning broadcaster and professor at George Washington University. Panelists include...
