Year: 2006

  • WFMU’s blog cites rumors that the FCC will open a five-day filing window for noncommercial educational stations within six months. But communications ...
  • The nation’s capital will pick up a new commercial news/talk station that’s described in The Washington Post as “NPR on caffeine.” The Post, in fact, ...
  • Broadcast technicians represented by NABET Local 31 voted to reject “best and final” contract proposals offered separately by PBS and NPR. To ...
  • By the end of 2006, WGBH aims to raise $40 million for its new headquarters under construction in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood, according ...
  • Public Radio International named Alisa Miller its new president. Miller formerly served as senior v.p. of PRI’s content wing and joined the ...
  • Looking back to a Sept. 30 segment on PBS’s Now, correspondent Maria Hinojosa did “some good work” providing insights into FEMA’s post-Katrina ...
  • A New York Times feature contrasts next week’s PBS doc, Country Boys, with predictable accounts of the poverty cycle. “Everyone wants things ...