Year: 2010
First Core Publisher news site explores upstate New York economy
The first Core Publisher news site from Public Interactive is up and running to “rave reviews” from sponsoring station WXXI in Rochester, ...NPR study oversimplifies barriers to audience growth, Sutton says
NPR’s latest audience study provides good insights for promotion, marketing and multi-platform service strategies, but its recommendation that NPR adopt a less ...Radio K at University of Minnesota loses CPB funding
CPB has cut $50,000 in funding from the University of Minnesota’s Radio K due to low ratings, reports the school’s Minnesota Daily newspaper. Radio ...Ron Hull, still busy in pubcasting after 55 years
Here’s a tribute to public broadcasting at its best, through the experiences of longtime Nebraska Educational Television programmer Ron Hull, who just ...Knight News Challenge introduces new categories
The Knight Foundation announced four new categories for its next Knight News Challenge: mobile, authenticity, sustainability and community. Details at Knightblog and ...Four major pubmedia intiatives “suffer from similar limitations,” blogger writes
PBCore, Public Media Platform, Argo and American Archive: “One or more may rock our world,” writes Barrett Golding on Hacks/Hackers of the ...Days after KCET’s withdrawal from PBS, surprise and confusion
Although it had been negotiating with KCET for nearly a year over a dues disagreement, PBS was taken aback with the Oct. ...KOCE will step up to primary status in L.A. area, president Mel Rogers says
KOCE in Huntington Beach, Calif., will assume primary PBS station responsibilities in the Los Angeles area when KCET severs its ties with PBS, writes ...KCET to drop PBS membership Jan. 1
KCET, public television’s major station in the nation’s second-largest media market, is dropping its PBS membership as of Jan. 1, 2011, station ...WTIU’s ‘Friday Zone,’ a rare local kids’ show on pubTV, returns for 11th season
The 11th season of what may be the only locally produced kids’ show on public TV premieres today (Oct. 8) on WTIU ...NPR and AFTRA strike deal for five-year contract
At 5:15 a.m. today (Oct. 8), NPR and AFTRA (the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) reached agreement on a five-year ...So far, no funding for station CAP updates, FCC official says
Lisa Fowlkes, deputy chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, addressed the upcoming station Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) update ...ITVS announces 12 films for its Global Perspectives Project
This year’s 12 selections for the Independent Television Service’s Global Perspectives Project tell stories in places as varied as Cambodia, Nicaragua, Iceland, Ethiopia and ...Hawaii PBS gets an especially touching donation
Leslie Wilcox, president of Hawaii PBS, blogs about a generous “major donor.”Tom Harkin: Senator, pubTV supporter, and now Super Reader
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), on Wednesday (Oct. 6) was declared an official Super Reader during a visit to Marshalltown, Iowa, to honor ...
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