For almost a third of a century the name Karl Haas has been synonymous with excellence in the presentation of music by radio.
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“It resonates on many emotional and intellectual levels,” producer John Battsek says of the lessons in the documentary Listen To Me Marlon. He and fellow producer RJ Cutler discuss the great gift of 300 hours of audiotape the late actor Marlon Brando left behind, which the film matches to a computer-generated hologram bust, bringing the reclusive actor’s thoughts to life.
Mr. Turner has consistently combined the zeal of an entrepreneur with a passionate commitment to make the world a better place than he found it.
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Deutschland ’83 takes viewers on a nostalgic trip to the Cold War by tracking a young East German undercover agent recruited to spy on the West German military. “A lot of what happened in the ’80s can be seen happening today,” says Lisa Honig, EVP of Fremantle Media, producer of the first German-language series to run in the U.S. The political thriller revisits a non-so-distant conflict with “rapid pacing, retro style and agile score.”
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Before the 2005 hurricane season began, WWL-TV aired Eye on Hurricanes 2005. As one in a series of yearly specials planned to remind citizens of New Orleans of the dangers that could accompany a major hurricane in the region, the program emphasized a new evacuation procedure and explored the existing minimal plans developed to assist the elderly, the disabled, and those without vehicles to evacuate the city. Experience with previous storms had led WWL to relocate its transmitter to a position less prone to potential damage or shut-down. As a result of planning and foresight, WWL remained on the air throughout the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina and into its aftermath. Programming was simulcast on radio, streamed on the station’s website, and seen statewide on Louisiana’s public broadcasting channel. For fourteen days, WWL staff stayed on the job despite the fact that many of them lost homes in the storm.
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“There’s this very pernicious silencing of the press that happens around the Church of Scientology, and a lot of people are afraid to speak,” says Kristen Vaurio, producer of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Based on Lawrence Wright’s book, the 2015 Peabody winning documentary “takes a look at the dangers of blind faith and where that can take people,” according to writer/director Alex Gibney.
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