
Paula Kerger, PBS president and CEO, delivered a keynote at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California, talking up Ken Burns’s first documentary that looks outside the U.S. and the network’s special programming related to America’s 250th birthday in 2026.
She said PBS has never had a more significant role in U.S. media. In this era of misinformation and disinformation, the network offers “trusted, fact-based programming that explores not just the what but the why,” she said.