Year: 2000
New capital fund helps Colorado network
Thanks to financing from the new Public Radio Capital (PRC) fund, Colorado Public Radio just realized a long-standing goal—buying Denver AM station ...How NPR webifies its programming — and you can, too
Nobody in public radio has encoded and streamed as much audio on the Internet — or had to automate the handling of ...Geller to FCC: scrap the rules, try a spectrum fee
More than three years after promising digital channels to broadcasters, the FCC held a hearing Oct. 16, 2000, about what the broadcasters ...Forum urges strong role for public TV in education
If the National Forum for Public Television Executives has its way, public TV will: raise an additional $200 million a year by loosening ...LPFM rules still disputed; Congress may act
Applicants for low-power FM (LPFM) stations range from mundane (Sacramento’s Sutter Middle School) to exotic (the Women on Top Awareness Series of ...Stations’ Forum petition seeks to reorganize PBS, October 2000
The National Forum for Public Television Executives, meeting in Dallas Oct. 2-4, 2000, agreed upon the following petition to put before the ...Several chefs prepare new drama menu for PBS
After years of charges that PBS has ignored American drama in favor of British imports, the tides are turning. This fall will ...Better Saturday competition seen for the kids audience
In a bid to expand its children’s franchise into an increasingly competitive daypart, PBS on Sept. 30 will launch Bookworm Bunch, a block of ...Video description today: For their audience, words are worth a thousand pictures
A visually impaired person watching CBS’s Survivor cannot see the ousted member’s torch extinguished, doesn’t know what Bart writes on the blackboard in The Simpsons‘ ...Promising medium for the blind: audio over the Internet
The Internet will revolutionize how radio reading services deliver — and their visually impaired clients receive — information, but providers ...Will Senate loosen definition of ‘educational’ channels?
Public broadcasters are ramping up efforts to secure support of their position in the Senate after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved ...Challenge for public radio: inspiring, hiring, keeping talent
Ira Glass has another vision. The first one launched his hugely successful show, This American Life, which developed a fresh narrative style for public ...Suit resolved, MPR and PRI maintain ties
In settling its lawsuit over the ownership of Marketplace, Public Radio International secured its grip on its most popular programs. The agreement will ...PBS President Pat Mitchell: ‘I think I’ll be learning every day of the year’
Since she was hired as PBS president early in February [2000], Pat Mitchell has met with 60 or 70 of public TV’s ...Bills seek to protect preachers on educational channels
Though the FCC backed off quickly, conservative members of Congress are pushing bills to make sure the commission doesn’t try again to ...
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