Year: 2006
Legislative auditor’s report on Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Louisiana’s legislative auditor released a report [PDF file] yesterday that said Louisiana Public Broadcasting, a state-funded public TV network, illegally deposited $11 ...University issues RFP to run jazz station KKJZ, Long Beach
Pacific Public Radio, operator of KKJZ-FM, the major jazz station in the Los Angeles area, is asking fans to urge license-holding California ...WDET g.m. pleads no contest to embezzlement charges
Michael Coleman, g.m. at WDET in Detroit, pled no contest to a reduced embezzlement charge Thursday and “faces up to 93 days ...PBR sponsors NPR
Pabst Blue Ribbon, the former bottom-shelf beer that has become a hipster beverage of choice in recent years, is now underwriting NPR’s ...Senate votes to raise indecency fines
The Senate unanimously approved a bill Thursday that would increase FCC radio and television indecency fines tenfold, from $32,500 to $325,000 per ...Moyers: ‘The best is yet to come . . . I am an optimist’
Text of Bill Moyers’ speech May 18, 2006, at the PBS Showcase Conference, Orlando, Fla. He spoke after PBS gave him its ...Wilbur Mills to LBJ: ‘We ain’t gonna give money to folks without some strings attached’
Congress doesn’t work that way, said Wilbur Mills, the formidable chair of the House Ways and Means Committee in the late 1960s. ...One pledge drive, under a microscope
A Sacramento Bee media columnist stares in the face of extreme boredom without flinching: he listens to almost all of Capital Public Radio’s pledge ...Wired News: Brave New World for Public Media
Wired summarizes last weekend’s Beyond Broadcast conference. “I think we’re at a very strange point of all these enormously powerful, old, rich institutions ...NPR : Guilt by Association: The NPR-FOX Connection
NPR Ombdusman Jeffrey Dvorkin examines a recent blog-induced foofaraw regarding Mara Liasson and Fox News and concludes: “These blogs appear to be ...Jay Allison profile
Chicago’s Center for Arts Policy presents a lengthy profile of pubradio indie Jay Allison and his myriad projects (PDF). “He is not ...NGIS promises lower sat costs, increased automation
Broadcasting & Cable breaks down the ongoing development of PBS’s Next Generation Interconnection System, scheduled to go online this fall. (subscription req.)Aggregation and Consolidation: A Rationale
Todd Mundt and Mark Fuerst aim to answer the question: “Why do we need aggregation and consolidated technologies?” (Stephen Hill comments here.)John Barth on New Realities
John Barth, managing director of the Public Radio Exchange, shares his thoughts and concerns about the public radio’s recent New Realities National ...More churn at Kentucky’s Public Radio Partnership
The interim president of the Public Radio Partnership in Louisville, Ky., will step down June 30, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal. Bob Irvine cited “disappointments ...
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