Year: 2006
Discovery cuts education group jobs
Discovery is cutting 84 jobs from Discovery Education, the division that sells educational videos and digital educational material to schools, the Washington ...Redskins Owner Set to Buy Last Classical Station – washingtonpost.com
WGMS-FM, a commercial station in Washington, D.C., that is the city’s sole classical outlet, could change hands and switch to a sports-talk ...RadioSutton: Promoting the Competition?
John Sutton raises some questions about fears of competition from satellite radio: “If local programming is the future of public radio, especially ...Public radio and story
Robert Paterson contemplates what lies at the heart of the public radio experience: “. . . [A]t the heart of good public ...Boston newspapers on Becton’s retirement
The Boston Globe reports on WGBH President Henry Becton’s plans to retire and the Boston Herald posts the memo sent to WGBH ...WGBH names Abbott to succeed Becton next October
Henry Becton will retire as WGBH president Oct. 1, 2007, and will be succeeded by Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Abbott, the Boston ...Audio clips of Bob Fass
The New Yorker has declined to post on its website the article about WBAI host and freeform pioneer Bob Fass that appears in this ...NPR : ‘This American Life’ Is Ready for Its TV Close-Up
NPR’s Lynn Neary reports on the This American Life TV show as it prepares for its debut next year. “I don’t see any positive ...LA Observed: Upheaval at ‘Weekend America’
American Public Media has dropped Barbara Bogaev as co-host of Weekend America and is relocating some of the show’s staffers to St. Paul, Minn., ...Release: KOOP’s New Home — Rolas de Aztlan: KPFT Notes
KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas, is moving into new studios this week, 10 months after its former studios burned to the ground.PBS coffee said to be sweetly balanced
PBS Blend — a coffee that’s “sweetly balanced and smooth, with full flavor and a rich finish” — will be sold by ...Old Media’s Options: Co-opt New Media, Take Its Lead—Or Both at Jake Shapiro blogs sometimes.
“I would argue that the nascent social media phenomenon and a threatened public media field would mutually benefit from an early embrace,” ...Verizon to add PBS Kids Sprout
Verizon will soon add the digital cable channel PBS Kids Sprout (Current story about the channel’s launch here) to its FiOS TV ...Buffalo News – Keillor is home on the prairie
“The sort of radio that seems to prevail is radio that has a very clear voice of its own,” says Garrison Keillor ...NPR : Contest: Make a Menorah, Create an Ornament
NPR announces its inaugural Holiday Craft Contest. The network’s own Mel Gibson Menorah is an early entry. (Via Andy Carvin’s Waste of ...
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