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Pacifica appointed Don Rojas to manage WBAI, its New York station.
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An activist raises concerns about Eva Georgia, general manager of Los Angeles Pacifica station KPFK-FM, in an article for the L.A. Independent Media Center.
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Prosecutors in a Houston capital murder case are challenging a judge’s order to allow Frontline to film the upcoming trial and jury deliberations, according to an Associated Press wire story.
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Frontline producer and reporter Martin Smith discusses “In Search of Al Qaeda”, which aired last night on many PBS stations.
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A profile in today’s Washington Post describes the Nov. 24 debut of Skinwalkers as a defining moment for PBS President Pat Mitchell.
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PBS’s publicity blitz for Skinwalkers on Mystery! is churning up a spate of favorable press. Google’s news search engine turned up 11 newspaper stories published since Nov. 19. The LA Times ran a Nov.
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PBS’s Benjamin Franklin apparently held its own against stiff November sweeps competition. The first part of the two-night miniseries pulled in a 2.9 household rating, according to an account in Media Life. That’s about 61 percent better than the network’s national average this season.
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Pacifica held a marathon fundraiser Nov. 19 and is seeking grants to preserve decaying tapes that document recent decades of activism in its program archive, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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This year’s Public Radio Talk Conference was received so well that PRNDI has scheduled a second annual event for May 2003.