Richard Heffner, the founding g.m. of New York’s WNET/Thirteen and ... arts and public affairs programming that molded WNET’s identity. “Now you’d say it’s in our DNA, but he was in charge of ...

Richard D. Heffner has been called many things — television host, professor, writer, editor, commentator — but there is one title he recalls with particular relish. As chairman of the Ratings Board ...

Your grandfather, Richard D. Heffner, first telecast “The Open Mind” back in 1956 and was its guiding force until his death in 2013. How did it happen that you took over the program?

In 1994, Richard D. Heffner, the chairman of the Motion Picture Ratings Association of America and the creator of PBS staple The Open Mind, wrote a column for The New York Times excoriating the ...

Forecast: Wiesel's moral and intellectual clout will draw even more interest than usual in the wake of the terrible events of September 11.