Public Broadcasting Service
Tavis Smiley is a late night television program on PBS. The show began broadcasting in 2004. It follows a similar style of show, featuring interviews on topical subjects and entertainment. The show has won both the 2005 and 2006 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Television, News, Talk, or Information Series or Special.
As the first west coast talk show for PBS, it is recorded at the studios of Los Angeles, California former PBS station KCET. The show will continue to be presented by and produced at KCET after January 1, 2011, although the station will not be able to air the program itself as it left PBS as of that date (the program will retain its 11pm time in Los Angeles on new Southern California flagship KOCE after that date). After 2011 however the show looks likely to move elsewhere, as Smiley has said he has a tenuous relationship with KCET officials over a lack of fundraising for the series, and will only keep filming at the studios for the present time as there was no time after KCET's PBS dismembership announcement to find a new taping facility.
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