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CPB Announces Ten-Year Funding Commitment to Filmmaker Ken Burns - Press Release
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced that it has entered into a long-term agreement with renowned filmmaker Ken Burns and his company Florentine Films to develop and produce programming for public broadcasting.
“For over 20 years, Ken Burns has educated, entertained and enlightened [...]

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Source: Current.org
37.8 million people tuned in to watch all or part of Ken Burns’ series The War, announced PBS in a press release yesterday. The series won a 4.7 national average household rating, and on average, 7 million people were watching the saga at any given time.

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