Janson Inks New Deal for Public Television Series

HARRINGTON PARK, January
28: Janson Media has reached an exclusive agreement with Great Decisions
Television and the Foreign Policy Association to distribute its international
affairs-themed public television series Great Decisions to worldwide television, VOD, DVD/video and
new-media markets.

Now in its 22nd season on
U.S. television, Great Decisions
is the longest-running American television program devoted solely to
international affairs and foreign policy. The 2008 season of the 8×30-minute Great
Decisions, now taped in high
definition, has already begun airing on 60 PBS affiliate stations, including
WNET in New York. Hosted by
former CNN World Affairs correspondent Ralph Begleiter, each show brings
together experts on a specific topic in order to examine all sides of a foreign
policy issue. In the current 2008 season, these include such debates as
Exiting Iraq: Deadline for Democracy,
Dangerous Dialogue: Talking with the Enemy; European Union at 50, Reexamining Russia: Waning War Machine?, The State of the U.S. Military, The Latin American Left; Out of Balance: U.S.-China Trade; and Philanthropy and the Rise of Global
Giving.

Great Decisions was produced by the Foreign Policy Association, a
non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn
more about the world.

—By Irene Lew