Year: 2009
PubTV and radio in Chicago lose longtime pubaffairs project
The longest running multimedia public-affairs series in the nation, “Chicago Matters,” is ending after 19 years, according to Chicago Tribune media reporter ...Leaked plan in Chicago takes frank look at Vocalo
A new strategic plan worked up at Chicago Public Radio unexpectedly went public earlier this week when it was leaked to the Chicago Reader. ...DTV converter box program ends
As of Monday the fed’s DTV converter box coupon program is over, with nearly half the 64 million coupons unredeemed, reports Broadcasting ...PBS is into New TeeVee
Jason Seiken, PBS senior vice president, interactive, is one of a slew of speakers at the New TeeVee Live ’09, Television Reinvented ...It’s a wonderful life, full of sounds
Fred Newman, sound effects man extraordinaire on American Public Media’s Prairie Home Companion, gave a demonstration of his craft Wednesday afternoon in ...A new pubTV offering: National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
For the first time, pubTV stations may broadcast the 60-minute National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington, D.C. According to partners WETA, ...APT Fall Marketplace gets under way
The crowds are arriving for APT’s Fall Marketplace, today through Saturday in Fort Myers, Fla. Lots of events, including a professional development ...KQED, CIR pair up for statewide investigative reporting
California Watch, a division of the Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting, and KQED Radio officially unveiled their editorial collaboration to bring more ...Can’t you poke fun at Democrats too?
In an online chat with WashingtonPost.com readers, Vivian Schiller gives herself a B+ for her first 10 months as NPR president. “I’ve ...FCC adviser to tackle journalism woes
Steve Waldman, incoming special adviser to FCC Chair Julius Genachowski, said confronting the myriad troubles in the news industry will be a ...Festivities that would make even Oscar smile
Sesame Street creator Joan Ganz Cooney was on hand at Sesame Workshop yesterday as the New York City mayor’s office proclaimed Nov. ...RTNDA morphs into RTDNA
The Radio-Television News Directors Association is updating its name, according to TV News Check. Now it’s the Radio Television Digital News Association. ...Sixteen projects get funding approval from Latino Public Broadcasting
Latino Public Broadcasting today announced the 16 projects chosen for funding in its 11th annual Open Call. A statement by the group ...Pipeline 2010
Projects listed in Current’s annual Pipeline survey are down from 162 last year to 128, which may be consistent with the Great Recession, ...Caroll Spinney ponders his alter ego
Caroll Spinney, who has played Big Bird since Sesame Street’s inception, is captured in a rare photograph in the New Yorker, wearing ...
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