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58-671: Salem Radio Network is a United States–based radio network that specializes in syndicated Christian political talk, music, and conservative secular news/talk programming. It is a division of the Salem Media Group . Salem Radio Network was launched in 2009, and operates on mostly four radio formats : Christian talk and teaching (transmitted on AM in some areas and on FM in others), Contemporary Christian music (transmitted mostly on FM stations), conservative News/Talk format (transmitted on AM stations), and Christian Teaching (transmitted on AM stations). Contemporary Christian Music

116-482: A Peabody Award , presented at the 2019 awards ceremony. On October 14, 2019, PBS NewsHour launched " PBS NewsHour West", a Western United States bureau at Arizona State University 's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix . Anchored by Stephanie Sy, the bureau produces its own news summary with up-to-date information on events that develop after the original broadcast. A version of

174-558: A letterboxed format for viewers with standard-definition television sets watching via either cable or satellite television . The program also introduced a new set and converted its graphics package to HD. On May 11, 2009, PBS announced that the program would be revamped on December 7 of that year under a revised title, the PBS NewsHour . In addition to increased integration between the NewsHour website and nightly broadcast,

232-877: A "primary" member outlet. These include the NJ PBS network in New Jersey (as WNET, which co-manages NJ PBS and WLIW , carries the program in the New York City area, the latter airing the program live, while WHYY-TV does so in the Philadelphia market); KVCR-DT in San Bernardino, California ; KCET in Los Angeles ( KOCE-TV in Huntington Beach , which shares ownership with KCET through parent Public Media Group of Southern California and

290-596: A 67% controlling equity stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in 1994, but MacNeil and Lehrer retained editorial control. In 2014, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions , owned by MacNeil, Lehrer, and Liberty Media announced its donation, as NewsHour Productions LLC , to WETA-TV as a nonprofit subsidiary. In 1973, Robert MacNeil (a former NBC News correspondent and then-moderator of PBS's Washington Week in Review ) and Jim Lehrer teamed up to cover

348-543: A New York-based correspondent for the weekday broadcasts and serves as a contributor for the PBS late-night news program Amanpour & Company ) was replaced as weekend anchor by former NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Geoff Bennett. Then on December 8, 2022, PBS NewsHour announced that John Yang will become an anchor in the weekend editions on December 31, 2022 (New Year's Eve). On May 13, 2022, Woodruff announced to NewsHour staffers that she would step down as anchor at

406-411: A digital-only half-hour weekly summary series of News Hour stories from the week, initially hosted by Nick Schifrin and broadcast on Fridays. On June 10, 2024, PBS News Hour introduced a new logo and the new studio (still at WETA), now featuring the current PBS logo, and the logo and program's text and graphics rendered in the system's proprietary PBS Sans typeface family introduced in 2019. At

464-441: A regular anchor of the program on June 6, 2011. He continued to occasionally anchor on Fridays, when he usually led the political analysis segment with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and The New York Times columnist David Brooks , until December 30, 2011. PBS NewsHour continues with various anchors until September 6, 2013. On August 6, 2013, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff were named co-anchors and co-managing editors of

522-598: A reorchestration of the nine-note "Question and Answer" musical signature that has been featured in the program's theme since its premiere in 1975 and a musical signature originally incorporated into the Kalehoff-composed theme for the Nightly Business Report used from 2002 to 2010. PBS NewsHour Weekend retained its original graphics package and the theme music by David Cebert and Bernard Hoffer until August 29, 2015, when it transitioned to

580-595: A similar segment, "Politics Monday", features analysis and discussion of political issues with contributors Amy Walter , national editor of The Cook Political Report , and Tamara Keith , Washington, D.C. correspondent for NPR . The program's senior correspondents are Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown (Arts, Culture & Society). Essayists have included Anne Taylor Fleming, Richard Rodriguez , Clarence Page and Roger Rosenblatt . Correspondents have been Tom Bearden, Betty Ann Bowser , Susan Dentzer , Elizabeth Farnsworth , Kwame Holman , Spencer Michels, Fred de Sam Lazaro,

638-521: A study alleging liberal media bias in general. Based on their research, PBS News Hour is the most centrist news program on television and the closest to a truly objective stance. However, their methodology has been questioned. In October 2006, the media criticism group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) accused the PBS News Hour of lacking balance, diversity, and viewpoints of

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754-668: A week, and is known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events. Since January 2, 2023, the one-hour weekday editions have been anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett . The 30-minute weekend editions that premiered on September 7, 2013, branded as PBS News Weekend , have been anchored by John Yang since December 31, 2022. The broadcasts are produced by PBS member station WETA-TV in Washington, D.C. , and originates from its studio facilities in Arlington County, Virginia . Since 2019, news updates inserted into

812-568: Is also streamed on the YouTube channel live Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00 p.m. ET. Full episodes are available later on the PBS News YouTube channel and on the program's dedicated page on PBS's website. The News Hour was also livestreamed on Ustream until IBM Watson Media discontinued free livesteraming on the platform on September 17, 2018. The News Hour has also provided livestreaming of special events, most notably streaming

870-540: Is only transmitted by a few of these stations at times during the weekend. The company's Salem Radio Network subsidiary produces several talk radio shows and a 24-hour news service that are distributed to more than 2,000 radio affiliates around the country. William Bennett is a designated fill-in host. Bennett previously hosted Salem's morning drive-time show for a decade before retiring in March 2016. The satellite feed for Salem's general market programming can be heard on

928-652: Is the primary PBS member in the region, serves as the program's carrier in the Los Angeles market); and WYIN in Gary, Indiana ( WTTW , the primary PBS station for the Chicago DMA that includes WYIN's Northwest Indiana service area, serves as the program's carrier in the Chicago market). In Boston, WGBH-TV airs the program live each weeknight (with a simulcast online), while its secondary station WGBX rebroadcasts

986-709: Is transmitted full-time on most stations, but in areas where Salem has a limited number of stations it is transmitted only part-time in morning and afternoon drive times on weekdays and weekend afternoons. Where Salem only has one FM station ( WAVA-FM in Washington, D.C., and WORD-FM in Pittsburgh ), CCM is transmitted on weekends, with talk and teaching on weekdays. Most CCM stations play music full-time and do not sell blocks of time to religious organizations except sometimes on Sunday mornings. Christian Talk, comprising talk shows where listeners call in and participate in

1044-446: Is usually followed by three or four longer news segments, typically running six to twelve minutes, which explore a few of the events mentioned in the headline segment in depth and include discussions with experts, newsmakers, and/or commentators. The program formerly included a reflective essay on a regular basis, but these have been curtailed in recent years; since Woodruff and Ifill became anchors, these essays have mainly aired as part of

1102-710: The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are making history on PBS." David Leonard and Micah Schwalb of The Denver Post wrote, "One of the most trusted news programs on television." Phil Owen of TheWrap wrote, "The least partisan analysis." Tim Surette of TV Guide wrote, "The calm and credible information we need." Jennifer Gerson of The 19th wrote, "Nawaz is stepping into history." In 2003, UCLA political scientist Tim Groseclose and Missouri economist Jeff Milyo evaluated various media programs based on " think tank " citations to map liberal versus conservative media slants and published

1160-670: The CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks , on CRN3. The Salem Radio Network contemporary Christian music (CCM) stations are referred to as TheFISH . The following is a list of Salem Radio Christian teaching radio programs: Salem Music Network is a division of SRN which operates three networks for the use of over-the-air stations. These feeds are mostly for stations in small and mid-size markets or HD Radio sub-channel use. The networks are distributed through both audio over IP and satellite. Unlike other major radio networks, SRN's broadcast clock does not include

1218-546: The NewsHour . They shared anchor duties on the Monday through Thursday editions, with Woodruff anchoring solo on Fridays due to Ifill's duties as host of the political discussion program Washington Week , which was also produced Friday evenings. For much of its history, the PBS NewsHour aired only Monday through Friday, but in March 2013, plans to expand the program to include Saturday and Sunday editions were under development. On June 17, 2023, PBS NewsHour announced that

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1276-500: The PBS News Hour ' s subscriptions page with link to a FeedBurner website (for free mp3 download) and through podcast services such as Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify , and among others. The PBS News Hour is streamed live on the program's YouTube channel at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time each weeknight, with the Western edition also streaming live at 9:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. Pacific Time). PBS News Weekend

1334-526: The PBS News Hour are also made available worldwide via satellites operated by various agencies such as the Voice of America . A limited number of PBS member stations and regional member networks do not clear the PBS News Hour on their schedules due to existing carriage on a "primary" PBS member station, a pool mainly confined to "secondary" stations (most of which participate in the service's Program Differentiation Plan) that share certain media markets with

1392-478: The PBS NewsHour was dedicated to Ifill and her influence on journalism, featuring tributes from Woodruff, Sreenivasan, former colleagues and program contributors (news content was relegated to the standard news summary, which aired during the second half-hour). Although the program initially featured guest anchors on some editions between January and March 2017, Woodruff went on to become sole anchor. In 2018, The Plastic Problem aired, which then went on to win

1450-491: The United States Senate 's Watergate hearings for PBS. They earned an Emmy Award for their unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage. This recognition led to the creation of The Robert MacNeil Report , a half-hour local news program on WNET, which debuted on October 20, 1975; each episode of the program covered a single issue in depth. On December 1, 1975, the program began to air on PBS stations nationwide. It

1508-644: The January 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump on the program's Twitter account. On December 4, 2009, when introducing the new PBS NewsHour format, Lehrer read a list of guidelines for what he called "MacNeil/Lehrer journalism": In 1992, radio broadcaster David Barsamian called the NewsHour "stenographers to power", accusing them and other news media of having a pro-establishment bias. PBS News Hour has received generally positive reviews from television critics and parents of young children. Patrick Kevin Day of

1566-583: The Tisch/WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in Manhattan , as opposed to the program's main production facilities at the Arlington, Virginia, studios of WETA-TV. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions announced in a letter to the show's staffers on October 8, 2013, that it had offered to transfer ownership in the PBS NewsHour to WETA. In the letter, Lehrer and MacNeil cited their reduced involvement with

1624-665: The Western Edition on television at 6:00 p.m. PT. Unusually for many years, the secondary station of Milwaukee PBS , WMVT , carried the program as part of an early-evening news block with the Nightly Business Report (which was the lead-in to News Hour on many member stations until that program ceased production in December 2019), and half-hour international newscasts from Deutsche Welle and BBC World News , due to an expanded schedule of PBS Kids and local-interest programming on WMVS; this has since been rectified with

1682-586: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.236 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 975668997 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:47:42 GMT PBS News Hour PBS News Hour , previously stylized as PBS NewsHour , is the news division of PBS and an American daily evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations since October 20, 1975. It airs seven nights

1740-410: The beginning and end of each broadcast, as well as barker interruptions asking viewers to donate to their local PBS member station or member network during locally produced pledge drives , which are replaced by encore presentations of a selected story segment from the past year for stations that are not holding a drive during that time). The program has a more deliberate pace than the news broadcasts of

1798-444: The beginning with dates. On May 17, 2006, the program underwent its first major change in presentation in years, adopting a new graphics package and a reorchestrated version of its theme music (originally composed by Bernard Hoffer ). On December 17, 2007, the NewsHour became the second nightly broadcast network newscast to begin broadcasting in high definition (after NBC Nightly News on March 26, 2007), with broadcasts in

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1856-427: The commercial networks it competes against, allowing for deeper detail in its story packages and feature segments. At the start of the program, the lead story is covered in depth, followed by a news summary that lasts roughly between six and eight minutes, briefly explaining many of the top national and international news headlines; international stories often include excerpts of reports filed by ITN correspondents. This

1914-502: The company's name. PBS NewsHour Weekend was not affected by the ownership transfer and continued to be produced by WNET. On July 20, 2015, the PBS NewsHour introduced an overhauled visual appearance for its weekday broadcasts, debuting a new minimalist set designed by Eric Siegel and George Allison that heavily incorporates PBS's longtime "Everyman" logo. The program also introduced a new graphics package by Troika Design Group and original theme music by Edd Kalehoff , which incorporates

1972-416: The creation of its official website at PBS Online. The NewsHour won a Peabody Award in 2003 for the feature report Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers . On May 17, 1999, The NewsHour adopted a new graphics package with refreshed music from 1983, plus the new studio with a blue globe in the middle. On October 4, 1999, Gwen Ifill and Ray Suarez joined The NewsHour team as new correspondents. Ifill

2030-496: The economics correspondent Paul Solman ( Making Sen$ e ), Malcolm Brabant and others. Lehrer and Ifill were frequent moderators of U.S. political debates. By November 2008, Lehrer had moderated more than ten debates between major U.S. presidential candidates. In 2008, Ifill moderated a debate between U.S. vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin ; in 2004, she moderated a debate between candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards . According to Nielsen ratings at

2088-481: The end of the year, though she intends to continue reporting longer pieces for the program while doing projects and specials for WETA through the 2024 United States presidential election at the earliest. Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett were named Woodruff's successors. Woodruff made her final broadcast as anchor on December 30, 2022. Nawaz and Bennett anchored their first broadcast as co-anchors on January 2, 2023. On December 15, 2023, PBS premiered PBS News Weekly ,

2146-711: The end-of-show segment "Brief, but Spectacular". On Fridays, the program features political analysis and discussion between two regular contributors, one from each of the Republican and Democratic parties, and one host from among the senior correspondents. Since January 2021, the usual participants have been Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and The New York Times columnist David Brooks . Analysts who fill in when Capehart or Brooks are absent have included David Gergen , Thomas Oliphant , Rich Lowry , William Kristol , Ramesh Ponnuru , Ruth Marcus , Michael Gerson , David Corn and E. J. Dionne . On Mondays,

2204-576: The general public, and for presenting corporate viewpoints. FAIR found that the PBS News Hour ' s guest list from October 2005 to March 2006 had Republicans outnumbering Democrats 2–1, and minorities accounting for 15 percent of U.S.-based sources. FAIR also protested in 1995 when Liberty Media purchased a majority of the program, citing Liberty's majority owner, John Malone , for his "Machiavellian business tactics" and right-wing sentiments. News Hour executive producer Linda Winslow responded to many aspects: FAIR seems to be accusing us of covering

2262-481: The launch of the all-hours PBS Kids subchannel network. Archives of shows broadcast after February 7, 2000, are available in several streaming media formats (including full-motion video) at the program's website. The show is available to overseas military personnel on the American Forces Network . Audio from selected segments is also released in podcast form, available through several feeds on

2320-462: The nightly news programs on ABC , CBS and NBC instead of complementing them, the program expanded to one hour on September 5, 1983, incorporating other changes, such as the introduction of "documentary reportage from the field"; it became known at that time as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour . Lester Crystal was its founding executive producer. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions twice planned to launch late-night newscasts in 1995 and 1999; in both instances,

2378-692: The people who make decisions that affect people's lives, many of whom work in government, the military, or corporate America. That's what we do: we're a news program, and that's who makes news... I take issue with the way the FAIR report characterizes each guest, which they have obviously done very subjectively. Witness the trashing of Mark Shields and Tom Oliphant (in the full report), who are not liberal enough for FAIR's taste. When you get down to arguing about degrees of left-and-rightness, I think you undermine your own argument. She also accused FAIR of counting sound bites as interviews, thereby skewing their numbers toward

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2436-609: The program with this summary is shown to viewers in the Western United States and to online and East Coast viewers watching re-broadcasts. On April 2, 2022, WETA assumed production responsibilities for the NewsHour ' s Saturday and Sunday editions, which concurrently began originating from the studio at the station's Washington facility used for the weekday broadcasts. The broadcasts were retitled PBS News Weekend , omitting "NewsHour " in view of their shorter duration. NewsHour Productions transferred production of

2494-550: The program's website , 2.7 million people watch the program each night, and 8 million watch in the course of a week. On March 31, 2003, after the U.S.–led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the PBS News Hour began what it called its "Honor Roll", a short segment displaying in silence the picture, name, rank, and hometown of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq. On January 4, 2006, military personnel killed in Afghanistan were added to

2552-440: The program's production since their departures from anchoring, as well as "the probability of increasing our fundraising abilities." WETA's board of trustees approved the transfer on June 17, 2014, and it took effect on July 1. At that time, NewsHour Productions, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of WETA, took over production of the program. WETA also acquired MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' archives, documentaries, and projects, though not

2610-512: The proposed expansions—which, respectively, were to have involved production and newsgathering partnerships with Wall Street Journal Television and The New York Times —were canceled mid-development. MacNeil retired from the program on October 20, 1995, leaving Lehrer as the sole anchor. Accordingly, the program was renamed The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on October 23. (Hunter-Gault left in June 1997.) On January 16, 1996, The NewsHour announced

2668-514: The same theme music and a reworked version of the graphics package used for the weekday broadcasts. Ifill took brief breaks from her NewsHour anchor duties in the late spring and in November 2016 (and was also absent from the program's presidential election coverage on November 8), as she had been undergoing treatment for advanced stage breast and endometrial cancer . After her death was announced on November 14, 2016, that evening's edition of

2726-437: The same time, the program's longstanding use of camel case in its name was discontinued, with "NewsHour" becoming two words by one space, "News Hour", in conjunction with the network's rebranding of the news operation as PBS News. The program is notable for being shown on public television . There are no interruptions for advertisements (though like most public television programs, there are "corporate image" advertisements at

2784-472: The segment. PBS NewsHour aired the final honor roll segment on August 30, 2021, after the end of War in Afghanistan . The PBS News Hour is broadcast on more than 350 PBS member stations and member networks, making it available to 99% of the viewing public, and audio from the program is broadcast by some NPR radio stations. It is also rebroadcast twice daily in late night via American Public Television 's World digital subchannel service. Broadcasts of

2842-877: The show, is transmitted during weekdays in some areas, and only in drive times in others. The rest of the day is filled with blocks of time ranging from a few minutes to an hour sold to churches and Christian organizations. Conservative Talk (branded in most markets as "The Answer" since 2014) transmits full-time on a commercial basis. These stations only sell advertisement time, not blocks of time like Christian Talk counterparts (though brokered programming may be offered on weekends as secular stations often do). Some of these stations have religious programs on Sunday mornings. The teaching format relies on selling blocks of time to organizations full-time. These stations offer diverse religious features such as church services, political and religious interview features, Christian family life programs, and children's shows. Music (exclusively Christian)

2900-478: The updated production returned to a two-anchor format. Lehrer described the overhaul as the first phase in his move toward retirement. On September 27, 2010, PBS NewsHour was presented with the Chairman's Award at the 31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards , with MacNeil, Lehrer, Crystal, and former executive producer Linda Winslow receiving the award on the show's behalf. Lehrer formally ended his tenure as

2958-1033: The weekday broadcasts targeted for viewers in the Western United States , online, and late at night have been anchored by Stephanie Sy , originating from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University . Additional production facilities for the program are based in San Francisco and Denver . The program is a collaboration between WETA-TV and PBS member station WNET in New York City , along with KQED in San Francisco , KETC in St. Louis , and WTTW in Chicago . The program debuted in 1975 as The Robert MacNeil Report before being renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report one year later. It

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3016-562: The weekday editions later the same evening, and the weekend editions live; a similar case exists in New York City but in reverse, where WLIW airs the weekday and weekend editions of the PBS News Hour live while WNET airs them on a tape delay (delayed by one hour on weekday editions and by a half-hour on weekends). KQED in San Francisco airs the program each weeknight in simulcast with its radio sister at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (6:00 p.m. Eastern Time ), in addition to airing

3074-424: The weekend broadcasts from WNET in a move to streamline the program's production and news-gathering resources, allowing the weekday and weekend NewsHour broadcasts to have the same pool of correspondents and to share resources with Washington Week (which is also produced by WETA-TV). Coinciding with the move, the weekend editions began carrying feature segments covering culture and the arts. Sreenivasan (who remains

3132-477: The weekend broadcasts were solely produced by WNET, before the New York City station transferred all of its PBS NewsHour involvement to WETA in April 2022. In September 1981, production of the program was taken over by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, a partnership between Robert MacNeil , Jim Lehrer , and Gannett ; the latter sold its stake in the production company in 1986. John C. Malone 's Liberty Media bought

3190-490: The weekend editions of the program wil premiere on September 7, 2013, with Hari Sreenivasan serving as anchor. Although they aired for a half-hour, the weekend broadcasts were branded with a program name, called PBS NewsHour Weekend . This program is based on the duration of WNET's involvement with the program. From the weekend broadcasts' debut until the March 27, 2022 edition, the Saturday and Sunday editions originated from

3248-436: Was a female anchor of a national nightly news program on broadcast television. Effective January 17, 2000, The NewsHour added "America Online Keyword: PBS" to its ending screen for a three-year agreement through April 22, 2003. For only the website, the program took effect on April 23, 2003. On March 3, 2003, the program added dates from the 1999 graphics in the beginning. On November 17, 2003, The NewsHour added music in

3306-442: Was anchored by Robert MacNeil from WNET's studios and Jim Lehrer from WETA's studios. In 1983, the show was rebranded as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour , and then The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer following MacNeil's departure in 1995. It was then renamed to its current PBS NewsHour title in 2009, two years before Lehrer left in 2011. Originally, the program only aired on weekdays before weekend editions began in 2013. Production of

3364-459: Was renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on September 6, 1976. Most editions employed a two-anchor, two-city format, with MacNeil based in New York City and Lehrer at WETA's studios in Arlington, Virginia. Charlayne Hunter-Gault joined the series as a correspondent in 1977, serving as a substitute host for MacNeil and Lehrer whenever either had the night off. She became the series' national correspondent in 1983. Having decided to start competing with

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