Month: September 2008
Who’s watching Lawrence Welk?
In this week’s “Ask the Elders” column in The Concord (N.H.) Insider, “Amanda” writes in: “Dear Elders, Do you REALLY donate to ...Mark Ramsey’s keynote address to pubradio programmers, plus reactions
Listen to audio of radio consultant Mark Ramsey’s Sept. 20 keynote address at the Public Radio Programming conference here and read reactions ...Bumps in the road from radio to multimedia
NPR’s push into reinvent itself as a multimedia news organization, and the challenges of retraining its journalists and renegotiating its relationships with ...Dylan unveils “Tell Tale Signs” on NPR Music
NPR Music is offering an exclusive stream of Bob Dylan’s forthcoming release Tell Tale Signs. The 2-CD set, previewed in advance of ...NPR online community: late to the game, but borne in all earnestness
NPR.org is “late to this game” of launching its own online community, writes Dick Meyer, editorial director, in a blog posting about ...One sale closes, another gets conditional approval
Two non-profits established to preserve local public radio service made some progress last week. Wasatch Public Media completed the purchase of ...CPB Board nominations clear Senate panel
Broadcasting & Cable reports that the Senate Commerce Committee approved President Bush’s slate of CPB Board nominees late last week, but two ...Hurricane Ike: In storm, stations run on ‘adrenaline and altruism’
As Hurricane Ike swirled toward the Texas coast on Friday, Sept. 12, more than 20 staffers of HoustonPBS and KUHF-FM hunkered down ...USA Today exec to lead NPR Digital team
NPR has hired a new digital media chief: Kinsey Wilson, executive editor of USA Today and usatoday.com since 2005. He joins NPR ...New Brideshead star completes Masterpiece hosting trio
Young British actor Matthew Goode, who starred as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold’s recent Brideshead Revisited movie in theaters, starts Oct. 5 as host ...Sawaya leaves Pacifica, publishes regretful critique
Explaining that she “was continually thwarted to do the job I was hired to do,” Nicole Sawaya announced yesterday that she had ...PTFP lays out millions more for DTV conversion
Five months before all TV broadcasting goes digital, Public Telecommunications Facilities Program is still spending $9 million of its $19 million grant ...CPB, AIR seek indie nominees for multimedia projects
CPB and the Association of Independents in Radio announced today a $400,000 grant program to encourage independent producers to try bold projects ...NYT: Too much of Hinojosa on “Now”
The New York Times’s Neil Genzlinger takes umbrage at Maria Hinojosa’s performance on an installment of PBS’s Now that focuses on the role of women ...PRPD announces ACE award winners
Todd Mundt shares the list of winners of the Public Radio Program Directors’ Awards for Creative Excellence, announced today at the PRPD ...
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