Year: 2006
Once the feisty advocate for indies, AIVF fades to black
The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, a 30-year-old group that coordinated activism and provided networking and training for independent filmmakers, shuttered ...Los Angeles Times: KCRW Radio Host Pleads No Contest to Cocaine Possession
Chris Douridas, a host on KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif., pleaded no contest July 25 to a charge of cocaine possession, the Los ...Ex-WUOM salesman guilty
A former underwriting rep for Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor was convicted July 26 of conspiracy to commit embezzlement, the Ann Arbor Times reported. ...Dumb People Make Children Cry / PBS fires young, female kiddie-show host over old, naughty ...
San Francisco Gate columnist Mark Morford attacks the PBS Sprout Network’s decision to fire Melanie Martinez for her “Technical Virgin” history. “What, exactly, is ...MoveOn.org targets ‘NPR-PBS 24’
MoveOn.org is soliciting donations for a campaign to “Beat the NPR-PBS 24“–the 24 members of Congress up for reelection who voted to ...Grassroots Radio Conference
Chicago Public Radio’s Julie Shapiro blogs about the Grassroots Radio Conference, which begins tomorrow in Madison, Wis. “though i respect, not to ...Media cos. want parents, not the FCC, to control kids’ TV viewing
Commercial networks, broadcast, cable and consumer electronics trade associations, film studios and the Ad Council are partnering on a broad campaign to ...Schorr a “wise old man with all his buttons”
NPR’s Daniel Schorr “is a wise old man with all his buttons, and that is a precious resource,” says a media analyst ...PBS Kids Sprout cans “technical virgin”
Digital cable net PBS Kids Sprout fired Melanie Martinez, host of the network’s nightly The Good Night Show, for appearing in two ...Cringely: Print still beats the web for news
Longtime Internet journalist Robert X. Cringely, PBS.org columnist, outlines the ways in which musty old newspapers are still far superior to web ...TimesDispatch.com | Native American channel launching?
A host on WPFW-FM in Washington, D.C., has joined the effort to launch a cable channel for Native Americans. “We can see ...WTWP Radio Gets Off to a Slow, But Game Start
Washington Post Radio in Washington, D.C., earned less than a one percent audience share in its first three months on the air, ...6% of U.S. Web Users Have Downloaded Podcasts, Says Nielsen Analytics: Financial News – Yahoo! ...
Six percent of web users in the United States have downloaded podcasts, according to a Nielsen Analytics report, and 38 percent of ...Sirius admits modulators are out of compliance
Sirius Satellite Radio has admitted that it directed manufacturers to make radios that did not comply with FCC regulations, reports Radio World. Radio listeners ...Playbill News: NPR Offers Its First Live Classical Webcast, From California’s Festival del Sole
Friday marked NPR’s first live webcast of a classical music concert, according to Playbill. The performance originated from the Festival de Sole in ...
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