Two of the country’s largest public television stations — Thirteen/WNET and WLIW 21 — have agreed to merge operations. On Tuesday, WLIW’s board of trustees voted in favor of the merger, which WNET’s ...

It’s like school — only with some of TV’s biggest stars writing on the blackboard. Public broadcasting will take America back to school Saturday with its second annual “American Graduate Day,” a seven ...

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y., June 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The WNET Group, parent company of New York's THIRTEEN and WLIW21 and operator of NJTV, announced the call letter change of its Southampton, New York ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning in November, four series produced by NEWSDAY TV will be broadcast on WLIW, a member of the WNET family of companies serving viewers throughout New ...

A bold gamble by WNET to respond to the diminishing returns of on-air pledge drives paid off enough that the trial is expanding. In what began as a one-year experiment last summer, the New York ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The WNET Group, parent company of New York's flagship public television stations THIRTEEN and WLIW, announced today that President and CEO Neal Shapiro will ...

NEW YORK, March 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The WNET Group, home to PBS stations THIRTEEN and WLIW21, the network NJ PBS, and Long Island’s only NPR station WLIW-FM, announced today the launch of its new ...

The parent company of public stations WNET/Ch. 13 and WLIW/Ch. 21 Thursday laid off 85 of its roughly 500-person staff in an effort to survive on a smaller budget. WNET.org, the parent of the sister ...

Neal Shapiro, president of NBC News until 16 months ago, will succeed William Baker as president and c.e.o. of New York’s WNET. Shapiro, 48, a 25-year veteran of network news who ran NBC’s Dateline ...