WETA

WETA presents the best lecture videos from Washington and beyond. The Forum Network is presented as part of a new partnership with PBS and NPR, with generous funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. WETA is a collaborating partner with WGBH/Boston and Public Broadcasting Atlanta in expanding this online lecture service. The WETA Forum Network service gives online audiences an opportunity to watch video lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, and policymakers. Forum Network lectures are hosted by community organizations and educational institutions in Washington and beyond. The Forum Network online lecture library currently includes over 2500 video and audio files, produced by WETA and other participating public broadcast stations from across the country. As part of a public broadcast station collaboration all lectures are aggregated into one common digital archive and made available to our local Washington audiences as well as audiences world-wide, through the Forum Network. WETA is committed to providing outstanding educative content for lifelong learners worldwide and to encouraging civic engagement around the vital issues of our time. We encourage audiences to browse our featured and popular lectures. Explore lectures by Topics, Series, Partners, and Speakers. To provide viewers with more information, lectures are further augmented with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio. WETA is currently seeking partnerships with Washington-based cultural, educational, and nonprofit organizations that are interested in extending the reach of their organization's lecture offerings through this network. To learn more about becoming a WETA Forum Network partner please visit the Become a Partner page. About WETA Public Broadcasting Founded in 1961, WETA is the leading public broadcasting station in the nation's capital, serving Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia with educational, cultural, news and public affairs programs and services. WETA's mission is to produce and broadcast programs of intellectual integrity and cultural merit that recognize viewers' and listeners' intelligence, curiosity and interest in the world around them. WETA is one of 354 television stations that make up the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). WETA TV 26 reaches 1.3 million Washington area viewers in an average week who tune in for broadcasts of children's programs, news and public affairs, history and culture, and science and nature programs. WETA also offers four digital channels: WETA HD, WETA Create, WETA Kids and The WETA Channel. On the radio dial, Classical WETA 90.9 FM is the exclusive home of classical music in Greater Washington. Classical WETA is also available in the Cumberland Valley on WGMS 89.1 FM and in Frederick, Maryland on WETA 88.9 FM. WETA co-produced Ken Burns's The Civil War, Baseball and The War, drawing international praise; The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is highly regarded for its news coverage; Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal continues a 40-year tradition of insightful news analysis; and The Kennedy Center Presents performance series bring the richness of Washington's arts and culture to the nation. WETA has won more than 500 awards for its productions, co-productions, presentations and projects, including Primetime Emmys, George Foster Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards.

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