LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- What do
Ray Bradbury, Elmore
Leonard, Anne Rice, James Ellroy, Kirk
Douglas, Ron Howard,
Queen Noor of Jordan, Walter
Moseley, Sidney Sheldon,
Coach John Wooden, Robert Reich, Mario
Puzo, Ralph Nader,
Mitch Albom, Sir Ridley Scott, Dean
Koontz, Arianna Huffington
and Erin Brockovitch have in common? They are among the
scores of noted authors who have guested in discussion and
celebration of their works on one of Public Broadcasting's rare,
nationally broadcast series promoting reading, Between The
Lines, hosted and produced by Barry
Kibrick.
The three-time Emmy winning show, a staple on PBS nationally for
two decades, will halt production following its three remaining
taped broadcasts, Kibrick has announced, "unless and until
corporate and audience funding, the first we have ever sought,
materializes." Between The Lines airs in a remarkable
160 markets including 48 of the top 50, providing 92% national
coverage. The show to date has been funded by a non-profit
now facing its own financial cuts. A prior crisis was averted
with the funding input of super-selling author Sidney Sheldon, an early guest on and fan of the
lauded and loved program.
(A list of broadcasting stations and a partial list of
interviewed authors is available at:
www.gobetweenthelines.com)
"It's urgent that the publishing and book marketing world
gathers to keep this program going," stated author and longtime PR
vet Dick Guttman, whose
Starflacker: Inside The Golden Age of Hollywood will be the subject of this
Saturday's (August 27) Between the
Lines episode, the first of the honored series' last three
broadcasts absent a stream of new funding. "An investment in
Barry's show would seem to me a superb and prestigious
sponsorship. The library value of 20 years of rich
philosophical conversations with a varied selection of the leading
authors is a gigantic asset which can be monetized in many ways in
addition to its continued broadcast on the PBS stations which
currently carry it so eagerly and proudly. It can also be a money
stream in its social media extensions. With thoughtful media
promotion of American literary offerings being so meager in this
exploitative time, one might expect Barnes and Nobel, Amazon and
top publishing houses to rush to keep this vital promotional and
intellectual organ going."
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