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Arkansas PBS, ADE Team Up on Summer Learning Program

Arkansas PBS and the Arkansas Department of Education have partnered to create “Rise and Shine,” an educational program designed to reinforce learning over the summer for K-5 students, especially those who were significantly challenged by the pandemic. read more >
Rich Hillman
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Farm Bureau, Arkansas PBS Put Spotlight on Ag in ‘Good Roots’

Arkansas PBS will celebrate the state’s largest industry, agriculture, and the people it touches in a new partnership with Arkansas Farm Bureau of Little Rock. read more >
Courtney Pledger is executive director and CEO of Arkansas Educational Television Network.
Education / Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

The Education of Courtney Pledger

Arkansas PBS, now far more than the state’s educational TV network, claimed a basket of recent accolades after taking a crucial role during the pandemic: broadcasting a remote curriculum to the state’s children while continuing to evolve into a multiplatform conduit for telling Arkansas stories. read more >
Incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. French Hill faces Democratic State Sen. Joyce Elliott in the general election for Arkansas' 2nd Congressional District.
Media & Marketing

French Hill, Joyce Elliott Spar Over Tax Cuts, Health Care

Republican Rep. French Hill and Democratic challenger Joyce Elliott clashed over President Donald's Trump's tax cuts and the federal health overhaul Monday as the two met up for their only debate in a tight Arkansas congressional race. read more >
Education / Media & Marketing

$5.18M From COVID Fund Will Finance Arkansas PBS Broadcast Expansion

Arkansas PBS, the state’s educational television network, has had $5.18 million in Arkansas coronavirus relief money earmarked for it to expand its broadcast TV coverage to pockets of the state that are now out of range. read more >
Education / Media & Marketing / Nonprofits

Arkansas PBS Earns $20K in Funding

Arkansas PBS recently won a 100-day challenge, earning $20,000 for programming expenses from the Susan Howarth Foundation. read more >

Arkansas PBS Tackles Race, Police Brutality and Outrage

Arkansas PBS is planning special public affairs programming on race relations starting Friday evening on the state public network’s flagship “Arkansas Week.” read more >
Executive Director Courtney Pledger consulted with Gov. Asa Hutchinson before announcing a new name for AETN: Arkansas PBS.
Education / Government & Politics / Nonprofits

With Captive Audience, Arkansas PBS Sees Viewership Boom

Arkansas PBS is reporting dramatic viewership increases on the state's educational television network and online during the coronavirus pandemic as Arkansans find the Conway-based public media hub "increasingly at the center of their lives." read more >
Chris Jones
Nonprofits

Arkansas PBS Foundation Adds 4 to Board

The Arkansas PBS Foundation Board has four new board members, including Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub Director Chris Jones. read more >
Executive Director Courtney Pledger consulted with Gov. Asa Hutchinson before announcing a new name for AETN: Arkansas PBS.
Government & Politics / Media & Marketing / Nonprofits

Arkansas PBS to Air Lessons For Pre-K Through 8th Grade

The newly rebranded Arkansas PBS, the state’s public television network, is taking a new role in teaching pre-kindergarten through 8th-grade pupils remotely while schools are ordered closed in the coronavirus pandemic. read more >
Government & Politics / Media & Marketing / Nonprofits

Arkansans to Ask, Experts to Answer

With questions flying about the coronavirus pandemic, its local effects and the latest in what Arkansans can do, Arkansas PBS plans to supply answers from health experts at 7 p.m. Thursday in a special live broadcast, "Arkansans Ask: COVID-19." read more >
Marty Ryall, holding plaque, with APTS President Patrick Butler, left, Arkansas PBS Executive Director Courtney Pledger and Molly Phillips, executive director of Iowa PBS, right.
 
Government & Politics

Ryall Takes Public TV Award for Lobbying Efforts

Marty Ryall of Arkansas PBS has claimed a national award for effective lobbying on behalf of public television. read more >
Executive Director Courtney Pledger consulted with Gov. Asa Hutchinson before announcing a new name for AETN: Arkansas PBS.
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AETN, Now Arkansas PBS, Looks to Turn CornerLock Icon

While pushing its traditional TV role into the digital age, Arkansas PBS, until recently the Arkansas Educational Television Network, is also at a crossroads of identity. read more >