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Theme music composer Anne Bryant Original network PBS Network PBS Cast Bonnie Erbé | 5.5/10 IMDb No. of seasons 18 First episode date 1 April 1992 Program creator Bonnie Erbé | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original release April 1, 1992 – present Nominations GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism - Newsmagazine Similar PBS NewsHour, Think Tank, Washington Week, Inside Politics, The Lead with Jake Tapper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbé is PBS’s all-women news-analysis program. The show airs weekly on over 251 PBS stations in the United States, in Canada, and internationally on Voice of America TV. It was created by host Bonnie Erbé and is produced by Persephone Productions in Washington, D.C.. Cari Weiss Stein is executive producer of To the Contrary. Luis Mazariegos has been the producer since 2013.
For the first six years of broadcast the show was filmed at the Maryland Public Television studios in Owings Mills, Maryland.
Launched on April 1, 1992, each week the show features four female panelists from various backgrounds including politicians, journalists, activists, and professional commentators. These women, with host and moderator Bonnie Erbé, discuss various issues in the news, mainly affecting women, children, families and communities of color. It is a half-hour program.
The show tries to focus on how the news affects people, not simply politics.