Year: 2006
Alaska’s KTOO buys 2 stations
KTOO in Juneau, Alaska, is buying two FM stations to offer a wider selection of programming. It already operates one FM outlet ...House subcommittee cuts CPB funding
The Boston Globe and Broadcasting & Cable report on the House Appropriations subcommittee vote yesterday to cut $115 million in federal aid to public broadcasting. [Links ...TiVo steps out as video presenter
TiVo launches today a service that will let some of its subscribers watch videos from selected Internet sources, including the National Football ...WGA, pubTV stations negotiate contract
Writers Guild of America and three pubTV producing stations completed negotiations on a three-year contract that includes provisions to share revenues from ...NPR announces Working Group to consider Digital Distribution Consortium, 2006
NPR exec Ken Stern sent this memo to public radio stations’ Authorized Representatives as a followup to the New Realities Forum in ...NPR : Are NPR Reporters Too Involved in Their Stories?
NPR’s David Kestenbaum’s use of the word “pissed” in a question to an interviewee should not have survived editing, says Ombudsman Jeffrey ...Washingtonpost.com: Taking Offbeat Films Beyond the Niche
The Prairie Home Companion film is the first major release for Picturehouse Films, a recently formed distributor whose president, Bob Berney, is profiled in ...KCTS takes over operations of Yakima station
In a cost-cutting move, Seattle’s KCTS is taking over operations of KYVE, the public TV station in Yakima that it has owned ...Sam Husseini: Can Pacifica Live Up to Its Challenge?
Sam Husseini calls for a more vital and powerful Pacifica Radio network. “What needs to be scrutinized is the collusion of incumbent ...NPR’s ‘Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’ You Can’t Make This Stuff Up. Or Can ...
The New York Times profiles NPR’s Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!” “The ability of the people on the show to think on their ...courant.com: From Bach To Talk
Connecticut Public Radio in Hartford has replaced midday classical music with local and national news and talk programming. Execs tell the Hartford Courant that ...PHC film review
The film adaptation of A Prairie Home Companion offers “the pleasant addition of [Robert] Altman’s trademark layered improv by celebrity actors and the unsettling ...Pubradio engineers form association
Public radio engineers are forming their own association, reports Radio World. The Association of Public Radio Engineers will advocate “good engineering practices,” develop training ...Lazar out at Capital Public Radio – sacbee.com
Michael Lazar has stepped down as president of Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, reports the Sacramento Bee. Citing unnamed sources, the paper reports that ...Classical music lives
A New York Times article presents evidence to counter arguments that classical music is withering away. “One way to keep the gloomy reports in ...
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