Year: 2010
Lyle Lovett helps bid farewell to iconic ACL studio
It’s a wrap. After 36 years, Austin City Limits retired its legendary Studio 6A last week (Nov. 8) with a performance by Lyle Lovett, whose ...Order in the Court 2.0 gets two new staffers
WBUR’s Order in the Court 2.0, winner of a Knight News Challenge grant, continues to progress, reports MediaShift Idea Lab. Two new ...Noncom religious broadcasters say, what about us?
The National Religious Broadcasters group “suggests that the government turn its attention to the needs of a huge, underappreciated resource: noncommercial religious broadcasters.” ...GOP will force floor vote on defunding NPR
House Republicans announced today (Nov. 17) that they plan to force a floor vote on defunding NPR, The Hill is reporting. House GOP Whip ...Now online: PBS NewsHour Science
PBS NewsHour’s new science page went live yesterday (Nov. 16), with original reporting by NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien, Digital Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan, Reporter/Producer Jenny ...More than 100 NJN staffers receive layoff notices, but could survive cuts
The Associated Press is reporting that 130 employees of the New Jersey Network received 45-day layoff notices Tuesday (Nov. 16) as the ...Friday webinar on Public Media Innovation work
CPB’s Public Media Innovation (PMI) fund is the topic of Friday’s (Nov. 19) webinar sponsored by the National Center for Media Engagement. ...CPB Board resolution cites its “deep concerns” regarding NPR firing of Juan Williams
CPB’s Board of Directors at its meeting today (Nov. 16) in New Orleans approved a resolution expressing its “deep concerns about the ...CPB Board chooses Ramer as chair, Pryor as vice-chair
At its meeting in New Orleans today (Nov. 16), the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting elected Bruce Ramer (left) as ...Gov. Barbour proposes end to state aid for Mississippi’s MPB
Two-term Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour called for an end to state subsidies for Mississippi Public Broadcasting in a $5.5 billion fiscal 2012 ...FCC chair says current spectrum allocations “still reflect previous era”
“The world has changed, but our spectrum allocations still reflect the previous era,” said Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski Monday (Nov. ...Fey’s remarks on conservative women edited from Twain show, paper reports
The Washington Post is reporting that PBS edited out controversial remarks made by Tina Fey (left) during her acceptance speech for the Kennedy Center’s ...Leaders of Obama’s deficit panel advise: Drop CPB by 2015
Among the 58 possible federal budget savings recommended by the vice chairs of the president’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform ...NTIA sets mid-2013 to begin spectrum reallocation
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recommended today (Nov. 15) that 115 MHz of spectrum be reallocated for wireless broadband service ...Knives sharpened for renewed assault on CPB
Bills to defund public broadcasting, or at least any radio network that fired Juan Williams, are beginning to seem like a real ...
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