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William Lyman Involvement in Question

There is conflicting facts of Will Lyman's initial involvement with the series. The Frontline wiki article states that "Will Lyman is the distinctive voice who has narrated the series since its inception in 1983"; contradicting the wiki article for Will Lyman which states "[Lyman's] resonant voice that has narrated the PBS series Frontline since its second season in 1984."

PBS Frontline wins best Documentary in the 2024 Oscars

According to this article PBS Frontline and the Associated Press wins an Oscar in the Best Documentary category for their coverage in the Ukraine war called "20 Days in Mariupol"

https://apnews.com/article/best-documentary-2024-oscars-61eadff6af5bb91d53737776c1a60ff8

This is a rare case where a TV show wins both an Emmy and an Oscar in its history. 2601:640:C901:280:48F8:6A3C:1C0B:5997 (talk) 04:39, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/pbs-frontline-wins-academy-award/

Here is PBS response for winning an Oscar for one of their Frontline Episodes. 2601:640:C901:280:C988:552:F33:E7DD (talk) 01:19, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recent reports

I'm thinking we should limit it to 12 or so episodes, and put the rest in a sub article List of Frontline episodes. - Roy Boy ⁸⁰⁰ 08:13, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This list should be in some time-oriented order. It appears to be in reverse chronological order. It should remain that way.Dogru144 00:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could we add dates to these episodes? I imagine that all one needs to do is click on the sites and see the dates.Dogru144 01:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now that we have the List of Frontline (PBS) episodes I think the recent reports section should be removed from this article. None of the recent reports are dated so it's a little hard to tell how recent they really are. Even if they were dated, it would need constant updating with the older reports transferred to the episode list. As it is now, the recent reports haven't been updated in almost a year. Sarilox (talk) 03:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the list of episodes. It really distracted from readability of the article. If people are interested in checking out individual episodes they can go to the list article or to PBS itself. Borock (talk) 05:06, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Frontline World Segue Music

I am curious about the music used between pieces on Frontline World. Does anyone have a source or information they could add about this?

GregFromFlagstaff 23:12, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

is it aired in other countries?

i'm curious on international broadcasts... is it like horizon/nova? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.18.172.14 (talk) 07:49, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed History section

For a programme like this, I think a history section is in order - as well as briefly talking about predecessors like "NET Journal" and "PBS World" (not to be confused with the digital TV channel of the same name). --Daniel Blanchette 04:44, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Funding

In Frontline's early days, production of the show was funded entirely by the stations (hence the original opening, "From the network of public broadcasting stations, including…" followed by a list of several major-market PBS members). Today, much of the funding appears to come from foundations, which are not obviously independent of political bias. 66.92.79.129 (talk) 21:28, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FRONTLINE, not Frontline

Check their website, that's how it is written. It needs to be changed throughout the whole article, and the title. I don't know how to change the title/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.89.130.144 (talk) 01:34, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia formatting rules call for changing ALLCAPS to Sentence case (e.g., TIME magazine is rendered Time magazine; KISS (musical band) is rendered Kiss) unless it is an initialism (e.g., IBM, IKEA) See Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trademarks I added the show's own use of allcaps as a parenthetical which matches the articles about Time and Kiss.Kaltenmeyer (talk) 16:01, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hosts, Producers, Credits...

Gotta create/improve credits section, including: Hosts, Producers, etc.:

Martin Smith
Lowell Bergman

Here's a good source:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/about-us/senior-editorial-team/

--TMH (talk) 16:03, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 3 October 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Withdrawn per SNOW and nom (yours truly) making a bad assumption about primary topic being established (since basename was a primary redirect here) (non-admin closure) В²C ☎ 15:30, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Frontline (U.S. TV program) → Frontline – The proposed target is already a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT here so WP:PRIMARYTOPIC here is established. The current title is unnecessary disambiguation; the proposed title is more WP:CONCISE and therefore meets WP:CRITERIA better. Also, per WP:NCTV: the article title for any topic related to television should be simply the most common word or phrase used to describe that topic. In particular, if the title of a television program is sufficiently unambiguous compared to any other topics or is considered to be the primary topic, then let that also be the title of the article; for example, The Prisoner or Guiding Light. В²C ☎ 23:49, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Here is a list of things at the title "Frontline" (as per Front line (disambiguation)):

Frontline (journal)
Frontline (magazine)
Frontline (Australian TV series)
Frontline (U.S. TV program)
Frontline (The Bill) (debatable notability, but, whatever...)
Frontline (band)
Frontline (ministry)
Frontline (product)

This is not including anything named "Frontline [X]" (e.g. Frontline Ltd., or Frontline Foundation, etc.), or anything plural (e.g. "Frontlines"), or anything with "The" in the front (e.g. The Frontline (Irish TV programme)).

Here is the page views for all of that for the last two months. Based on this – no, the U.S. TV program is not even close to the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC: it barely beats out the magazine, and doesn't much best the Australian TV series either.

So oppose. Meanwhile, Frontline should be redirected to Front line (disambiguation)~~, as per WP:INCDAB~~. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 01:46, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Clearly not the primary topic. -- Alex^TW 03:35, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose not the primary topic. This request is also intentionally not complete as it doesn't deal with the sub-pages of the US TV program which would also change and cause confusing as both have a "List of Frontline episodes", making that title very ambiguous. WP:CONCISE, WP:CRITERIA and WP:NCTV have nothing to do with nom's argument (as that can be used for any other entry using that title) and are used either mistakenly or as a misdirection.--Gonnym (talk) 07:01, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose There is no way its the primary topic per IJBall's stats. That's before you take into account the other topics like Frontline Ltd. which surely is known by "Frontline", not to mention Front line per WP:ASTONISH and PT#2. Nom is correct that Foo should not redirect to Foo (qualifier) or Foo, Qualifier (and should be moved in the place of the redirect) the current redirect is incorrect and should be changed back to Front line (disambiguation). Crouch, Swale (talk) 10:06, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Opppose as not the primary topic. Agree with IJBall that there are many articles with 'Frontline' in the title, with the magazine and Australian TV program not far off the US program. Also, I think the disambiguation page should take the place of Frontline, and act as the disambig page. Frontline previously pointed to the disambig page until August 2017 when it was repointed to the US program. -- Whats new?^(talk) 10:13, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.