{"id":242257,"date":"2025-10-22T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/242257\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:37:08","slug":"pbs-socal-sets-live-3-hour-telethon-with-josh-groban-jamie-lee-curtis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/242257\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS SoCal Sets Live 3-Hour Telethon With Josh Groban, Jamie Lee Curtis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFollowing public media\u2019s loss of federal funding, PBS SoCal<\/a> is hoping viewers will help fill the gap. It has announced We \u2764 Public Television, a star-studded live three-hour telethon, which will air on Sat. Nov. 8 from 4-7 pm on PBS SoCal in the Southern California area and on PBS stations nationwide on Thanksgiving night.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe celebrity lineup includes Josh Groban, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ken Burns, Ziggy Marley, Lily Tomlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Marlee Matlin, Nicholas Ralph, Noel Paul Stookey, Rick Steves, David Foster and Katharine McPhee, Adam Arkin, Courtney Vance, Martha Plimpton, Joe Bonamassa, Shel\u00e9a, Jesse Cook, Judy Blume, Celtic Woman, Sarah Silverman, Mychal the Librarian, Lindsey Stirling\u00a0and more. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe program will feature live musical performances and viewer testimonials, plus archival material from iconic public television shows including\u00a0Masterpiece, Austin City Limits, Great Performances and Sesame Street.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe telethon also will include three special performances from the Nashville PBS studios featuring\u00a0Kathy Mattea, Sierra Hull,\u00a0Molly Tuttle\u00a0and Ketch Secor.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the broadcast, the telethon will be available on the free PBS App from\u00a0Nov. 27-Dec. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis Telethon is going to be a giant lovefest celebrating Public Television. We will feature great music, some classic clips from viewers\u2019 favorite PBS series and a few surprises,\u201d commented PBS SoCal\u2019s\u00a0Executive Producer for the Telethon,\u00a0Maura Daly Phinney.\u00a0\u201cEvery contribution that viewers make will go to their local public television station and help them fill the gap created by the loss of our federal funding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPaula Kerger<\/a>, president and CEO of PBS, informed station general managers in August that PBS<\/a>\u00a0planned to cut its budget by 21% as public\u00a0media<\/a>\u00a0faces the loss of $1.1 billion in federal funding<\/a>\u00a0over the next two fiscal years. The overall pool of station dues will be reduced by $35 million, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe\u00a0Corporation for Public Broadcasting<\/a>, set up by Congress in the 1960s to distribute federal funding grants, announced that\u00a0it would be shutting down<\/a>\u00a0by the end of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following public media\u2019s loss of federal funding, PBS SoCal is hoping viewers will help fill the gap. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,133175,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-242257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-pbs-socal","10":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}