Year: 2009
“Ascent of Money” wins International Emmy
Harvard University history prof Niall C. Ferguson has won an International Emmy Award for his documentary series, The Ascent of Money, which ...NewsHour and GlobalPost team up to bolster international coverage
PBS and the NewsHour today announced a partnership with Boston-based GlobalPost to make use of its international correspondents for “timely on-the-ground information ...Gourmet adventures indeed
Ruth Reichl, host of PBS’s Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth, opens her refrigerator and pantry to Salon.com for a peek at what one ...WGBH will use TV shows on radio
WGBH will broadcast some television programming on the radio starting Tuesday, the Boston Globe reports. It’s part of the station’s move to transform 89.7-FM ...Mister Rogers helps kids write journals with iPhone app
Kids can now journal on their iPhones thanks to a new app, Make a Journal, from the ever-creative Mister Rogers folks. The ...“Spill O’Reilly” Muppet faces namesake on “O’Reilly Factor”
On Tuesday night, Sherri Westin, e.v.p. of Sesame Workshop, hit the O’Reilly Factor with host Bill O’Reilly on Fox to discuss the ongoing “Pox ...Mixed financial news for pubcasters on 200 largest charities list
Several pubcasters are part of the 200 largest charities in America in Forbes magazine’s annual list. Figures are for end of fiscal ...Who needs Queen?
Ladies and gentlemen: The Muppets perform “Bohemian Rhapsody.” (And doesn’t the green dude at 3:47 look like … Brian Williams?)WLIU breaks pledge record
Good news for Peconic Public Broadcasting, new owners of WLIU in Southampton, N.Y.: Listeners contributed a record total of more than $90,000 ...Talkin’ turkey, and other goodies
Thursday’s the big day, and while most of us are gobbling our holiday dinners at least a few pubcasters will be catering ...Gray heads in the pubradio audience, quantified by format
An analysis of aging among public radio listeners put numbers behind Garrison Keillor’s observation that every year there are more gray heads ...New PBS NewsHour brings on Web anchor
When retiring newsman Carl Kasell entered NPR’s broadcast booth in 1975, his voice went out over airwaves bounced across antennae nationwide to ...Kasell gets to sleep in, as of January
Longtime pubcasting voice Carl Kasell, 75, is retiring after three decades of rolling out of bed at 1:05 a.m. for Morning Edition, ...Sesame Workshop participating in president’s Educate to Innovate initiative
Sesame Workshop is making a $7.5 million investment in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education with its new Math is Everywhere initiative, ...Law professor working with pubcasters on plan for system’s future
A Rutgers law professor is getting input from NPR, PBS and CPB, along with independent media-makers and community activists, for a report ...
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