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NOW (TV series)
Encyclopedia
NOW was a Public Broadcasting Service
newsmagazine
that focused on social and political issues.
news and Public Broadcasting Service
(PBS). The program featured documentary reporting, interviews and commentary on current events. Bill Moyers
served initially as sole host of the program while NPR reporters and commentators produced individual segments for the hour long-program.
In the autumn of 2003, David Brancaccio
was introduced as a co-host. In 2004, Kenneth Tomlinson
, the Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
, paid an outside consultant $14,000 to watch NOW with Bill Moyers and analyze the politics of the show. The study was not approved by the CPB. After the study became public in 2005, the CPB-funded NPR
, among other organizations, criticized the resulting study as being full of errors and a waste of money.
In the summer of 2004 the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
announced that it would no longer provide funding for NOW. Moyers subsequently announced that he would leave the show after the 2004 U.S. elections and appeared for the last time on December 17, 2004. After his departure, the show was reduced to a half hour.
Maria Hinojosa
is credited as a senior correspondent for the show while presenting many investigative pieces. She and Brancaccio are the only two presenters and usually alternate segments.
In November 2009 it was announced that the program had been canceled, and its last episode aired on April 30, 2010.
, Overseas Press Club for a story on child brides
. NOW on PBS was also awarded a National Business EmmyAward in 2007 and a National News Emmy Award for best newsmagazine segment in 2004.
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
newsmagazine
Newsmagazine
A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published piece of paper, magazine or a radio or television program, usually weekly, featuring articles or segments on current events...
that focused on social and political issues.
History
First airing in January 2002, and originally called NOW with Bill Moyers, the program was launched as a collaboration between NPRNPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
news and Public Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
(PBS). The program featured documentary reporting, interviews and commentary on current events. Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers is an American journalist and public commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the United States President Lyndon B. Johnson Administration from 1965 to 1967. He worked as a news commentator on television for ten years. Moyers has had an extensive involvement with public...
served initially as sole host of the program while NPR reporters and commentators produced individual segments for the hour long-program.
In the autumn of 2003, David Brancaccio
David Brancaccio
David A. Brancaccio is an American radio and television journalist. He has been the host of the public radio business program Marketplace and the PBS newsmagazine NOW.-Early years:...
was introduced as a co-host. In 2004, Kenneth Tomlinson
Kenneth Tomlinson
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson is a former editor at Reader's Digest and American government official. He is the former chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which manages Voice of America radio, and formerly Chairman of the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which manages funds...
, the Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...
, paid an outside consultant $14,000 to watch NOW with Bill Moyers and analyze the politics of the show. The study was not approved by the CPB. After the study became public in 2005, the CPB-funded NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
, among other organizations, criticized the resulting study as being full of errors and a waste of money.
In the summer of 2004 the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...
announced that it would no longer provide funding for NOW. Moyers subsequently announced that he would leave the show after the 2004 U.S. elections and appeared for the last time on December 17, 2004. After his departure, the show was reduced to a half hour.
Maria Hinojosa
Maria Hinojosa
Maria Hinojosa is a Mexican American broadcast journalist. She was Senior Correspondent for the PBS news magazine, NOW on PBS....
is credited as a senior correspondent for the show while presenting many investigative pieces. She and Brancaccio are the only two presenters and usually alternate segments.
In November 2009 it was announced that the program had been canceled, and its last episode aired on April 30, 2010.
Awards
In 2008 NOW was awarded the Edward R. Murrow AwardEdward Murrow Award (OPC)
The Edward Murrow Award is a journalism award given by the Overseas Press Club of America annually since 1978, for "Best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs."- External links :*...
, Overseas Press Club for a story on child brides
Child marriage
Child marriage and child betrothal customs occur in various times and places, whereby children are given in matrimony - before marriageable age as defined by the commentator and often before puberty. Today such customs are fairly widespread in parts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America: in...
. NOW on PBS was also awarded a National Business EmmyAward in 2007 and a National News Emmy Award for best newsmagazine segment in 2004.