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The secret operations of a New York City agency obscure the likely sale of city TV and radio stations WNYE, reports the New York Times.
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Talking with mediabistro.com, Washington Post magazine critic Peter Carlson reveals a perk of his job is getting the New Yorker delivered to his door. “I thought I was really hot shit until early one Sunday morning he delivered the wrong copy to me, and it was addressed to Noah Adams of NPR,” Carlson says. “I mean, Noah Adams is a fine human being, but we’re not talking about Henry Kissinger here.” (Via Romenesko.)
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Executives at Denver’s two public TV stations “can’t agree whether it’s a blessing or a curse that the city has two PBS channels with different programs and audiences,” reports the Denver Business Journal.
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The Public Broadcasting Button Collection collects promotional buttons from public radio and TV over the years. Sample: “1980. The year NPR stops being a secret. (don’t tell anybody)”
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Richard Pearce discusses his film “The Road to Memphis,” an installment in PBS’s The Blues, on the Washington Post’s website.
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Twenty-three more public TV organizations received digital conversion funding in the year’s second round of Public Telecommunications Facilities Program grants. Aid went to state networks in 10 states, Connecticut, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont and West Virginia, as well as to 13 stations in other states.
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Gerald Boyd, the former New York Times editor who stepped down after the Jayson Blair flap, is talking with NPR’s Tavis Smiley about becoming executive producer of Smiley’s show, reports the New York Post’s gossip column. (Via Romenesko.)