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WETA

Arlington, Virginia(approximate location)

WETA is the leading public broadcasting station in the nation’s capital and serves our community with educational, cultural, news and public affairs programs and services.

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Contact & details

TypeStock Footage · Television
Founded1961company website
LocationArlington, Virginia
Websiteweta.org
Emailaudienceservices@weta.org
Social
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Phone+1 703 998 2600
Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
8.8IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

28 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Emmys11of22nominations50%

78 wins from 197 nominations across all awards

Box office
$325,653

Combined US gross, 1 of 67 titles

Baseball poster
Highest rated
Baseball
1994
9.24,924 votes
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency poster
Lowest rated
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
1984
4.8108 votes
Mostly
documentary, history, biography
Active
1975–2026
Rotten Tomatoes
89%
Best known for
The Vietnam War

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 53 of 67 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
40119 seasons

1967–2026

Television rating
8.9IMDb

Their films average 7.7, so the television rates 1.2 higher.

Networks
  • PBS29
  • ARTE1

Across 32 series matched to TMDB, 5,466 episodes. 9 still returning or in production.

Longest runningPBS News Hour · 46 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 68

26 films · 41 TV titles

Titles per year58 titles · busiest 2020 with 5

58 titles across 30 years, averaging 1.9 a year. The last five years average 2.8 a year, above their long-run rate. 5 of those 30 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time24 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 8.8200020102020

Their 2000s work is their strongest, averaging 8.8 across 6 titles. The 10 titles since 2016 average 8.9, 0.2 above their 8.7 overall. 4 of 24 rated titles sit above their 8.7 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Ken Burns3
Writers
  • Ken Burns3
Notable cast
  • Peter Coyote7
  • Nick Schifrin2
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.2
  • Tom Hanks2
  • George F. Will2
Genres
  • Documentary40 of 53
  • History18 of 53
  • Biography7 of 53
  • News5 of 53
  • War5 of 53

Names appearing on two or more of WETA’s produced titles, across the 53 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with12 companies

Companies that appear alongside WETA on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

Film offices covering Arlington

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