Month: July 2010
MPB listeners, blogosphere want to know: What’s inappropriate about ‘Fresh Air’?
Why did Mississippi Public Broadcasting drop Fresh Air from its radio schedule? The blog “A Unitarian Universalist Minister in the South” set ...PBS once again tops News and Documentary Emmy nominations
The Los Angeles Times said that PBS “flexed its usual strength” when the News and Documentary Emmy nods were announced today (July 15) and ...Online nonprofit donations are up
Online donations to nonprofs are up 23 percent this March, April and May over the same time last year, the Chronicle of ...National Press Club Awards for pubcasters
NPR’s David Folkenflik, State of the Re:Union creator Al Letson, and PBS’s Frontline are public broadcasting’s winners in this year’s National Press ...“Prison Valley” documentary starts on innovative website
A unique nonfiction film that its producers call “a road movie on the web” is getting attention within the indie production world, ...FCC spectrum inventory now under way
An inventory of “existing spectrum allocation, assignment and utilization” is already under way, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a ...BBC ramps up online news service for American audiences
BBC Worldwide is about to launch a news website for American audiences, BBC.com, according to Advertising Age. The site, produced by a ...Noncom and com media should join for international service, author says
America needs one news service to broadcast internationally, drawing on the strengths of both public and commercial media, writes Lee Bollinger, president ...WNET online game brings Revolutionary Boston to teens
WNET/Thirteen will launch on Sept. 21 “Mission U.S.,” the first in a series of educational online games targeting “teens and tweens” nationwide, ...McCartney disses President Bush during taping of “In Performance” concert
The Washington Post‘s Reliable Sources columnists are reporting that a cutting remark rocker Paul McCartney made during the taping of a PBS ...Former CPB president joins InterMedia
Robert Coonrod, CPB president from 1997 to 2004, has been chosen CEO of media and communications company InterMedia, the firm said in ...Rhode Island PBS president dies
Robert Fish, president of Rhode Island PBS, died July 9 at his home in Snug Harbor, Rhode Island. He was 65. He was ...CPB selects NFCB affiliate as its liaison with black pubradio
CPB is backing the National Federation of Community Broadcasters as its service provider for African American public radio stations. The decision, ...Was George Schultz doc funding too closely linked to former Secretary of State?
The funding of a documentary on former Secretary of State George Schultz is coming under scrutiny by The New York Times as ...Maryland candidate protests MPT online interview vs. broadcast
When Maryland Public Television invited candidates to do interviews for its website, one literally replied, “Go to hell” — because he feels ...
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