12 Facts About PBS NewsHour

PBS NewsHour is an American evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations.

The PBS NewsHour won a Peabody Award in 2003 for the feature report Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers.

PBS NewsHour's was a female anchor of a national nightly news program on broadcast television.

Much of its history, the PBS NewsHour aired only Monday through Friday, but in March 2013, plans to expand the program to include Saturday and Sunday editions were under development.

PBS NewsHour Weekend was not affected by the ownership transfer and continued to be produced by WNET.

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PBS NewsHour Productions transferred production of the weekend broadcasts from WNET in a move to streamline the program's production and news-gathering resources, allowing the weekday and weekend PBS NewsHour broadcasts to have the same pool of correspondents and to share resources with Washington Week .

Broadcasts of the PBS NewsHour are made available worldwide via satellites operated by various agencies such as the Voice of America.

The PBS NewsHour has provided livestreaming of special events, most notably streaming the January 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump on the program's Twitter account.

PBS NewsHour has received generally positive reviews from television critics and parents of young children.

In October 2006 the media criticism group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting accused the PBS NewsHour of lacking balance, diversity, and viewpoints of the general public, and for presenting corporate viewpoints.

PBS NewsHour's accused FAIR of counting sound bites as interviews, thereby skewing their numbers toward the political party holding a majority .

PBS NewsHour partnered with NPR for the broadcast of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions of 2016, in a strategy to prepare for the election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.