Month: December 2009
Biden announces first broadband stimulus grants today
Eighteen broadband stimulus projects in 17 states worth $182 million will be announced today by Vice President Joseph Biden in Dawsonville, Ga. ...Salary and funding woes hit WLIU’s new owner
Peconic Public Broadcasting, the new owner of WLIU 88.3 in Southampton, N.Y., could not pay most employees this month. And despite an ...Might AARP’s first Spanish-language show come to PBS?
AARP Broadcast, a media arm of the nation’s largest membership organization for adults 50 and older, just shot a pilot of Viva ...Watchdog group urges public to petition PBS on Moyers and Now replacements
Fairness & Accuracy in Media, a national news watchdog organization tracking bias and censorship, is encouraging the public to sign a petition ...PBS Teachers offers new classroom resources on economic, financial issues
PBS Teachers is giving instructors a way to help students become more economically and financially literate through its new Access, Analyze and ...Dino Train chugs onto People mag’s “Best Kids Shows” list
People magazine puts Dinosaur Train, the new PBS show from the Jim Henson Co., on its “Year’s Best Kids Shows” list, according ...NPR diversity consultant to sign on as v.p.
Keith Woods, a Poynter Institute dean who was consulting with NPR on newsroom diversity, will join the network as vice president, diversity ...PBSKids.org mention in junk-food survey “misleading,” PBS exec says
Many of the most popular websites for kids contain advertisements for junk food, reports Reuters on a study in the latest American ...N.C. pubcasters in “hissing contest” over doc filmed in state?
A documentary on North Carolina is “caught in a hissing contest” between pubTV stations UNC-TV and WTVI, reports the News & Observer ...PBS snags three Golden Globe nods
PBS’s Masterpiece received three Golden Globe nominations. Nominees for the prestigious Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s honors were announced this morning. Nods went ...KCET-TV fave appears on The Simpsons
Did you catch much-loved, uber-enthusiastic California pubcaster Huell Howser on The Simpsons Sunday? Who’s he? As the LAist blog says, “While we ...From the latest edition of Current
Delaware city officials threaten to oppose WHYY license renewalWork cut out for a Public Media CorpsBack to the Future: Ramp up public ...Go along with Nova onto a Navy aircraft
David Pogue, who’s hosting a four-part Nova for fall 2010 on materials science (working title: Stuff), has a cool Flickr set of ...Sorry, no s’mores at PubCamp Webinar
Wondering what the heck a PublicMediaCamp is? The next National Center for Media Engagement can help out with that. Its next Peer ...Most Writers Guild nods go to PBS; Frontline sweeps entire category
PBS has 15 Writers Guild of America nods — more than any other broadcast or cable TV channel — for outstanding achievement ...
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