An Arkansas Educational Television commissioner is taking issue with the commission's decision to sever ties with the Public Broadcasting Service. "I believe there were many considerations not ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A recent analysis found 45% of educational TV shows and videos that first graders across the state watch were from PBS, raising concerns about recent public media funding cuts by ...

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.

Arkansas PBS, the statewide network operated by the Arkansas Educational Television Commission, announced Thursday that it will drop PBS programming and change its name to Arkansas TV. The current PBS ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Oct. 5, 1970, National Educational Television—now known as Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)— airs its first broadcast. The first show? Julia Child’s “The French Chef.” ...

Arkansas’ decision to sever ties with the Public Broadcasting Service “came as a shock to us,” a PBS executive wrote in an email Wednesday to Woody Freeman, chairman of the Arkansas Educational ...

Former first ladies Barbara Pryor and Gay White are now co-chairs for the new nonprofit group Friends of Arkansas PBS, a citizen-led push that hopes to convince what is now Arkansas TV to rethink its ...

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 ...

The newly created Friends of Arkansas PBS will include a bipartisan approach in its effort to convince the Arkansas Educational Television Commission to reverse its December 2025 decision to ...