Here, PBS executives took the unusual step of offering only the edited version of the film for direct retransmission.

PBS executives last week denied the producer's allegation that the documentary was being suppressed.

Indeed, cable was the word most often spoken at a meeting of PBS executives last month in San Francisco.

PBS executives said he was not pushed out.

Mr. Mahrer and other PBS executives do say that Discovery is bidding up the price of documentary film.

PBS executives reportedly sent notes to the producers, saying the film would 'demonize Islam.'

Once having accepted a documentary, PBS executives are right to resist efforts to tamper with it.

If the experiment works (read: if ratings go up), the scheduling changes will be made for the entire country starting in April 2001, PBS executives said.

Some PBS executives have even expressed discomfort about certain "P.O.V." topics.

PBS executives raised similar concerns.