Viewers Like Us:

Restoring the public in public television

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Bonus Episode

Interview Excerpt:

Randall Pinkston

In the United States, there’s a “public” element to all broadcasting over the federally regulated airwaves. Audiences have the right to speak up about the changes we expect on the air. That’s why a commercial broadcast license challenge — launched decades ago, yet still within living memory — intrigued Viewers Like Us’s investigative reporter, Akintunde Ahmad. Listen to the bonus excerpt to learn more:

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Viewers Like Us co-host and reporter Akintunde Ahmad on set during a documentary film production

Episode 6: It’s Not Over

Season 1 of Viewers Like Us concludes, but the push for a public media that includes and serves the entire American public is far from over.

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Cover of the Shop PBS autumn 2021 catalogue

Episode 5: Don’t Go Chasing Watersheds

In the decades-long struggle toward an equitable public media system, what will it take to move from mere talk to actionable change?

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Behind the scenes of a production meeting for the Blackside-produced landmark series Eyes on the Prize / Photo courtesy of Callie Crossley.

Episode 4: An American Experience

Tokenism and triumph are both part of the American experience for filmmakers of color in public media.

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Viewers Like Us, a co-production of filmmaker Grace Lee and Studiotobe, documents the growing disconnect between PBS’s founding mission and the increasingly diverse public it was created to serve.

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We envision Viewers Like Us as movement-building through storytelling. In that spirit, we want to gather stories from you—the public—about your experiences, as media makers and audiences, with PBS over the years.

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