Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly Television By ELIZABETH JENSEN The PBS mainstay Bill Moyers said he was retiring from weekly television and would end his Friday night public affairs show, "Bill Moyers Journal," on April 30, 2010. That date will also be the last for "Now on PBS," which has been canceled.
Mr. Moyers said he had been planning for some time to retire the program on Dec. 25, but was asked by PBS to raise the funds to continue through April, which he did. "I am 75 years old," he said of the decision to end the series, which began in April 2007. The program has recently been having a "good run of it," he added in a telephone interview on Friday, "so I feel it's time." He said he was not quitting television work, although he has no new projects planned. "Now" began in January 2002, and was originally hosted by Mr. Moyers. John Siceloff, the executive producer, said the program, hosted now by David Brancaccio, had been "a unique voice at a time when outlets for insightful journalism are diminishing. We're all looking for places to continue that work." PBS said in a statement that it was in the middle of a "review and reinvention" of its news and public affairs programming, and that it would announce plans for its lineup in January. Regards, KGB ----- Kevin G. Barkes Email: [email protected] KGB Report: http://www.kgbreport.com Commentwear by KGB: http://www.commentwear.com National Temperature Index: http://nationaltemperatureindex.com DCL Dialogue on line: http://www.dcldialogue.com Random Quotations Generator: http://www.goodquotations.com Over 13,000 searchable quotations. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
