Month: February 2000
FCC rejects petition to alter DTV modulation standard
The argument over the digital TV standard will continue, though the FCC tried to put it away Feb. 4 [2000], unanimously denying ...‘Hasty mistake’ at WFDD prompts talk of ideals
For the faculty of Wake Forest University, the hush order given to reporters at the ...Temporary Commission on Alternative Financing, 1993
The Temporary Commission on Alternative Financing for Public Telecommunications (TCAF) delivered its recommendations to Congress on Oct. 1, 1983, after extensive ...Uneasy dilemma for public TV: stick with DTV standard?
Which would be worse? Raising ungrounded fears about DTV technology that spook the public and delay the transition for years? Or ignoring ...For the first time, a producer leads PBS
PBS’s new president is Pat Mitchell, departing head of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television, whose appointment was ratified by the PBS ...Pubradio serves up UFOs down by the Rio Grande
A weekly half-hour program about space aliens — probably the only one in public radio (but who knows?) — has just been ...By-laws of Public Broadcasting Service, 2000
This is the PBS Board’s governing document as amended Feb. 6, 2000. For comparison, see also the original PBS bylaws of 1969, ...Wake Forest University faculty committee report on WFDD conflict, 2000
Five months after the conflict developed between Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and its public radio station, WFDD, the faculty’s Senate Ad ...
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