PBS' 'Masterpiece Theatre' Seeks Sponsor

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This is sad! :-(

PBS is struggling to find funding for its venerable "Masterpiece Theatre" but will keep the curtain up as it woos corporate sponsors, PBS executives said Saturday.

ExxonMobil Corp. had provided sole funding for the program since its 1971 debut until deciding to drop its support. The series is funded by ExxonMobil through 2004.

Jacoba Atlas, PBS senior vice president, told the Television Critics Association that PBS is "actively seeking funding for 'Masterpiece Theatre,'" but has no specific deadline.

"We're confident we're going to find that funding," PBS senior vice president John F. Wilson told the critics' association - optimism he and other PBS executives expressed in January to the same group.


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1. And Reading Rainbow has lost its funding as well.

It just amazes me that the Repukes are so against public television. It easily outclasses everything on the networks and almost everything on cable. Masterpiece Theatre is "clean" and "wholesome" and usually pretty conservative in an old fashioned sense.

Is Exxon Mobil really hurting that badly?