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▶ 3:54 Guy Raz His public television show is so recognizable that Rick's up there with PBS icons like
▶ 47:06 Rick Steves 20 days on the road doing Pledge, and to this day, I mean, I just was talking to the people at Public Television a week or two ago, and they said nearly 20% of all the money that they raised in Pledge this last quarter was from my show,…
▶ 55:38 Rick Steves Because Los Angeles Public Television broke away from PBS because they couldn't afford the dues.

▶ 1:03:54 Guy Raz You got a, you, you sort of bought out a bunch of their, um, content, and I think you bought This Old House, that show on PBS, you own that show.

▶ 3:28 Guy Raz And even after he developed a close relationship with PBS as a producing partner, Ken still had to knock on doors of corporations and foundations to find a way to pay for each film he was inspired to make.
▶ 25:19 Ken Burns Somebody at the PBS station in New York, WNET, offered me a job of 800 dollars a week, which was like saying.
▶ 28:29 Ken Burns Like, PBS is gonna show this. 2 times in the scene
▶ 30:15 Guy Raz Um, because I did the same things when I, when I was younger, but I'm assuming that you were a little bit of a hustler when you would, because it sounds like you, you know, you had to give it to PBS, but they were not necessarily committed… 3 times in the scene
▶ 47:59 Ken Burns But, but yes, you do have the pressures of that, but you hide behind the skirts of PBS. 2 times in the scene
▶ 52:27 Ken Burns Yeah, well, I think we all do that, and I think we're, we're learning, and I, I think one of the places where I learned is to try to hear that weak voice that says that shot's not working, you know, and, and, and, you know, even though you… 2 times in the scene
▶ 54:32 Guy Raz At the time, it was the largest audience in PBS history.
▶ 1:03:30 Ken Burns I'm, I, I want to stay with PBS. 2 times in the scene

▶ 18:24 John Hendricks PBS had wonderful success with Kenneth Clark's series on civilization.
▶ 31:03 John Hendricks Pitching people, and then the other, other, you know, the, the building blocks of this, we kind of covered several of them, but this other question about advertising, I kind of looked on PBS, who's sponsoring this?
▶ 36:21 Guy Raz I mean, you, you, you had, like, ratings from, from television networks that showed when they aired documentaries, or when PBS aired documentaries on science, their, their ratings went up.
▶ 1:04:24 Guy Raz But here's what I want to ask you, broader question about the evolution of Discovery, because it really was when you started it and when you ran it, it was like a slightly commercial version of PBS. 3 times in the scene

▶ 3:20 Guy Raz His public television show is so recognizable that Rick's up there with PBS icons like
▶ 41:11 Rick Steves They drank the Rick Steves syrup through the back door Kool-Aid, and they wanted to share it on public television. 3 times in the scene
▶ 44:42 Rick Steves Well, if, if there wasn't public television, I don't think anybody else would have taken a look at me, but public television was the domain of, of the Bob Rosses and the, and the Mr. 4 times in the scene
▶ 55:40 Rick Steves Because, because Los Angeles public television broke away from PBS because they couldn't afford the, the, the dues.

▶ 15:02 Jeni Britton Um, and it was, um, there was a show on PBS, this is the turning point, the show, there was a show on PBS about ice cream, they had another one about sandwiches, they had a couple of different shows they'd put out, and they were really… 2 times in the scene

▶ 6:45 Robert "Bob" Johnson So I go down, and, uh, the guy's looking for a public information officer to write, uh, information about, uh, programming at the various PBS stations, uh, the educational stations, and that was my first job as a public information officer…

▶ 4:00 Steve Ells And at some point I started watching cooking shows, Julia Child and, and, uh, Graham on the Galloping Gourmet and the, the PBS series, the MasterChef series.

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