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FRONTLINE: about us: a brief history | PBS (240 words) |
 | Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. |
 | Therefore, it fell to public television to pick up the torch of public affairs and continue this well-established broadcast news tradition. |
 | FRONTLINE remains the only regularly scheduled long-form public-affairs documentary series on American television, producing more hours of documentary programming than all the commercial networks combined. |
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Frontline (PBS) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1080 words) |
 | Frontline is a public affairs television program of varying length produced at WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed through the Public Broadcasting Service network in the United States. |
 | Some episodes of the series dealing with the terrorist group Al Qaeda were reportedly viewed by staff at the White House on the evening of September 11, 2001. |
 | Frontline had produced some in-depth reports about the organization in the wake of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. |