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Ready to Learn gets nearly $72 million, CPB and PBS announce
CPB and PBS just announced (Oct. 15) almost $72 million in federal grants for the Ready to Learn early childhood literacy campaign ...Nova moving to Wednesdays, themed nights ahead for upcoming PBS primetime
Big changes are coming in PBS’s winter/spring 2011 primetime schedule — including a shift for Nova from its longtime Tuesday slot to Wednesdays, ...WNET/WLIW’s Teaching & Learning Celebration moves toward sixth edition
The annual conference of K-12 teachers and educational experts of various stripes has been scheduled for March 18-19 in New York. Last ...Look at yourself, now back to this item, now back to yourself …
By now you may very well be one of the 4 million viewers of the Sesame Street spoof of that cheeky Old Spice commercial ...Nova’s “Emergency Mine Rescue,” filmed at site of Chilean disaster, airs Oct. 26
A Nova film crew has been at the site of the Chilean mine disaster since Sept. 5, and the program will air its ...Vegas PBS inundated with media credential requests for debate
Vegas PBS is Ground Zero for one of the most anticipated debates in the nation this election season: Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ...WFCR secures AM outlet for its news expansion
Massachusetts station WFCR is buying WNNZ, a 50,000-watt outlet on 640 AM, and converting it into noncommercial operation, the WFCR Foundation announced ...“Think twice” before attending Oct. 30 rallies, Schiller tells NPR staffers
In a memo to NPR employees today (Oct. 13) posted on the Poynter Online Romenesko journalism blog, President Vivian Schiller cautioned staffers ...CPB’s Harrison expects pubmedia news coverage to “gore people’s oxen”
In an interview with the St. Louis Beacon, the nonprof news site partnering with St. Louis’s KETC, CPB President Pat Harrison makes ...LA Times TV critic ponders KCET’s fundraising future without PBS shows
“KCET is dead; long live KCET,” writes Los Angeles Times TV Critic Robert Lloyd in today’s (Oct. 13) column. He’s adopting a wait-and-see attitude ...President appoints “Takeaway,” Sesame Workshop contributor to financial board
President Barack Obama today (Oct. 13) announced his choice for appointments to several administration posts. Included is Beth Kobliner, to serve as ...Is an independent KCET an innovative concept, or doomed to failure?
Here’s an interesting exchange on the future of soon-indie KCET between Doc Searls, head of Project VRM at Harvard’s Berkman Center for ...Kling reveals his plan for regional news expansion
Just what does Minnesota Public Radio’s Bill Kling have in mind for the regional news initiative announced last month as his next ...Forty years ago: KPFT bombed off the air twice in its first year
Pacifica Radio’s KPFT in Houston “was the first radio station in the United States to be bombed off the air” in May ...How to use video games for more than fun
“Gaming for the Greater Good” is the intriguing title of the Wednesday (Oct. 13) webinar from the National Center for Media Engagement. ...
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