Year: 2006
Pubcasters concerned about CPB nominee
Some pubcasting leaders aren’t happy about surprise CPB Board nominee Warren Bell, a TV producer and contributor to the online version of ...Research into podcasting
Is your station podcasting, and if so how are you handling it? An Ohio University researcher is inquiring. Rachel M. Ward, a ...Broadcasters hope new measures stave off FCC fines
Broadcasters and entertainers are turning to indecency insurance, zero-tolerance on-air policies and studio tech upgrades to protect themselves against the recent tenfold ...WBEZ defers to iPods, angers music fans
Reuters reports on WBEZ’s decision to scrap music programming in favor of a 24-hour news and public affairs format, a move partially ...Google Video to offer Sundance Channel films
In the first of what promises to be many such partnerships, according to Google reps, the cyber-juggernaut has signed on to distribute ...Advertising Age – XM and Sirius: Meant to Be Together?
An Advertising Age article about the pros and cons of an XM-Sirius merger includes an analyst’s comment that talk programming will become more important ...Former college radio director arrested for embezzling
New Jersey police arrested the former director of Seton Hall University’s WSOU-FM on charges of embezzling more than $500,000 from the university ...BBC offers more listener control
BBC’s free iPlayer not only offers downloads of the past week of the TV network’s programs but also the listeners’ own choice ...Ten Primetime Emmy nods for “Bleak House”
Bleak House leads PBS’s slate of programs nominated for Primetime Emmys. The Masterpiece Theatre miniseries received nominations in 10 categories and American Masters drew 9 Emmy nods. PBS ...The Long Tail
The New Yorker finds a few “blind spots” in The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson, the ...ContentDepot rolls out this month
NPR’s Public Radio Satellite System rolls out the ContentDepot this month after almost two years of delays, reports Radio World. “ContentDepot promises to simplify ...Journalism as an act of patriotism
Viewer responses to Frontline‘s “The Dark Side” and a botched NewsHour interview prompt PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler to expound on the patriotism of journalists.Couric should try what NPR and PBS do
What should CBS and Katie Couric do with the Evening News? On CBS’s site, guest columnist William Powers from the National Journal ...Om-buddies? Not really.
“Comments continue to drift in about the PBS program on the Armenian genocide,” CPB ombudsman Ken Bode writes in his latest column, ...
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