Need to Know (PBS)
| Need to Know | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 166 |
| Production | |
| Running time |
54 minutes (May 7, 2010-Sept 9, 2011) |
| Release | |
| Original network | PBS |
| Original release | May 7, 2010 – June 28, 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
54 minutes (May 7, 2010-Sept 9, 2011)
Need to Know was an American public television news program produced by WNET (a New York City PBS station), and broadcast weekly on all Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate-stations in the United States (plus, ABC News 24, in Australia). It aired from May 2010 until June 2013.
PBS stated that the show was intended to fill the public-affairs and "hard"/investigative news void left by both the one-hour Bill Moyers Journal (which had ended with Mr. Moyers' [ultimately temporary] retirement), and the cancelled, half-hour NOW on PBS (hosted by investigative journalist David Brancaccio, a Moyers protege). Both departing shows had been long-running, highly rated, and critically acclaimed for their journalistic quality, and focus on issues that deeply impacted regular Americans' lives, yet went largely ignored by commercial TV news outlets. "NTK" branded itself the "TV and Web newsmagazine [that] gives you what you need to know." PBS had described the show as "a multi-platform current affairs news magazine, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting". Initially, it was co-hosted by Alison Stewart (a regular contributor to NPR, and, at the time, The Rachel Maddow Show's main substitute-host); and, journalist, author, and then-Newsweek magazine (original version) editor-in-chief Jon Meacham. Later, the show was hosted by one journalist (out of a rotating group of three) who presented pre-taped correspondent pieces, then asked follow-up questions of the correspondent, in-studio. A short segment followed, in which a prominent person reflected on a difference-making period from his or her past.
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