Month: July 2010
UNC-TV reporter issues statement on Alcoa investigation controversy
The reporter behind the controversy over PBS affiliate UNC-TV releasing pre-broadcast footage and reporting docs to the North Carolina state legislature spoke ...Tribe donates $6 million to California affiliate for first 24-hour Native channel
KVCR-TV in San Bernardino, Calif., has received a $6 million donation from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to fund the ...Fans wait for hours to meet “Red Green” in West Virginia hardware store
“The Red Green Show” fans Kerry Comerford and his longtime partner, Brooke Parker, left their home Berkeley Springs, W.Va., for their ...Production U to teach high-schoolers TV content skills
Production U, a new two-week media camp for high-school students, kicks off Aug. 2 off at PBS 39 in Bethehem, Pa., reports ...Knight-Batten Awards for innovations in journalism
ProPublica, The Takeaway and Ushahidi Haiti, a crowdsourcing crisis map created in response to the massive earthquake in January, each received 2010 ...PEG channel conference shows move toward “community media centers”
An often-overlooked corner of the evolving pubmedia ecosystem hides PEG access (public access, educational, government) channels. But the recent conference of the ...Dayton-Cincinnati merger results in five full-time job cuts
Five staffers have been due to the ongoing merger between PBS affiliates CET in Cincinnati and ThinkTV in Dayton, Ohio, according to ...KQED expands local news for radio, Web audiences
San Francisco’s KQED is adding weekday newscasts to its FM station and as on-demand audio on its website, according to the San ...Ford Foundation spending for educational broadcasting, fiscal years 1951-76
The Ford Foundation was noncommercial television’s first big funder, years before Congress contributed large sums — supporting efforts to acquire reserved channels, ...Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Public Law 90-129, 90th Congress, November 7, 1967 (as amended to April 26, 1968) This law was enacted less than 10 months after ...Editorializing prohibited in Public Broadcasting Act
The act says: "No noncommercial educational broadcasting station may engage in editorializing or may support or oppose any candidate for political office."PBS responds to criticism over Schultz bio “Turmoil and Triumph”
Several hundred e-mails landed in PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler’s in-box regarding the three-part doc “Turmoil and Triumph: The George Schultz Years,” running ...Jesse Thorn bans himself on principle
Jesse Thorn, host and creator of The Sound of Young America, speaks up for humor on public radio by announcing that Mississippi ...Alcoa files request for docs from UNC-TV
Citing North Carolina’s Open Records laws, Alcoa Aluminum Inc. wants UNC-TV — licensed to the University of North Carolina — to turn ...“Tenth Inning” debuts today at Dartmouth
Documentarian and baseball fan Ken Burns will premiere his latest film, “The Tenth Inning,” today (July 16) at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center ...
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