Year: 2009
Public TV takes note: health care bills have billions for education
Health-care legislation now pending in Congress may be one of the best new sources of support for public-service content, public TV’s lobbyists ...To save journalism, click ’n’ donate?
Now a dot-com called Kachingle is starting to roll out an online service designed to make voluntary support easy for even the ...Winter Horton Jr., 80
Winter D. Horton Jr., a leader in public broadcasting since the 1960s, died Nov. 12 in Pasadena, Calif. He was 80. In ...Moyers’ Journal and Now will end in April
Bill Moyers will retire his weekly series at the end of April, at the same time its Friday-night stablemate, Now on PBS, ...At KCRW, Seymour sets retirement for February
Ruth Seymour, who built a successful but insistently idiosyncratic Los Angeles station and Internet music source with go-it-alone intuition, announced this week ...Google caption technology goes to PBS videos on YouTube
PBS is part of Google’s new initiative to make millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired users. The ...Native group and foundation present Indian Country tech report
Native Public Media and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative today released a study, “New Media, Technology and Internet Use in ...All this, AND Skip Hinton!
Details on most sessions at January’s NETA conference are now online. The confab is at the M Resort in Henderson, Nev., about ...Two PBS docs advance in Oscar race
Two pubTV films are on the short list for Documentary Feature Academy Award nominations, PBS says. Both docs, Food, Inc. on POV ...Former Tampa pubcaster heads online news venture
Another new media site has sprouted, this time in Florida, reports Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. The online paper, 83 Degrees, is published ...Senate satellite bill passes committee
The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday passed the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA), its version of the satellite reauthorization bill, ...Cap Hill gets flying T-shirts courtesy of Design Squad
PubTV’s Design Squad show was on hand to launch T-shirts into the air at last week’s Education Technology Showcase on Cap Hill. ...David Fanning’s Loper Lecture, 2009
David Fanning, the founding executive producer of PBS’s Frontline series, gave this talk in 2009 as the annual James L. Loper Lecture in ...Grover stars in first Sesame iPhone app
Sesame Street’s Grover now has his own app. And Grover’s Number Special is the first official Sesame Street app for the iPhone ...WLIU gets four months to find new home
Peconic Public Broadcasting, which recently purchased WLIU pubradio (Current, Oct. 13, 2009; background, Aug. 24) from Long Island University, has won approval ...
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