Year: 2010
Writers Guild wants Comcast to pay millions for pubaffairs programming via CPB
The Writers Guild of America East, which reps writers at several pubcasting stations, has written to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski with a suggestion: ...Fred Rogers Co. gets Department of Justice grant
Lots going on at Mister Rogers’s production company in Pittsburgh. First, it’s no longer known as Family Communications Inc.; it’s now the ...10 stations come together to cover aftermath of Gulf Coast oil spill
Several stations have joined to continue coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast region, WBHM-FM in Birmingham, Ala., announced ...PBS.org revamp is coming
The redesign of PBS.org will emphasize broadcast promotions, feature a “Today’s Video” clip for users to catch up on shows that have ...WNET employees get four-day holiday furlough
In a memo to staff today (Oct. 6), WNET/Thirteen President Neal Shapiro announced a four-day furlough for time during the week between ...Local control of pubcasting stations “profoundly important,” Kerger says
“Public Media in a Digital Age” was the topic of the panel discussion Tuesday (Oct. 5) organized by Free Press at the ...Freakonomics Radio crunches homerun stats for its ‘Marketplace’ debut
Freakonomics Radio, a new co-production featuring journalist and Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner, unveiled its biweekly segment for Marketplace yesterday. The topic for ...WMFE plans two-week furloughs after membership and underwriting don’t meet goals
WMFE/Public Media for Central Florida is instituting two-week furloughs for all 35 staffers, reports the Orlando Sentinel. Also, there’s also no raises this fiscal year. ...KETC/Channel 9 to become Nine Network of Public Media
CPB President Pat Harrison will be in St. Louis on Oct. 12 as KETC/Channel 9 unveils its new brand identity as the ...Pubaffairs anchor departing Arizona Public Media for local radio
Bill Buckmaster announced Tuesday (Oct. 5) that he is leaving his the Arizona Illustrated anchor chair after 23 years on Arizona Public Media. His ...Survey explores whether public wants to have public-funded media
Is public funding of media a good idea? That’s what Spot.us, an open source project to fuel “community powered reporting,” wanted to ...NPR’s Twitter audience: 30-somethings who get their news online
NPR’s Twitter followers are “gadget hounds” and “news junkies,” according to survey results released last week by NPR Research. Of the 10,244 ...Adrift, mute and helpless
Why everyone but public broadcasters is making federal policy for public media The FCC’s recent National Broadband Plan and its Future of the ...Next Avenue will use Web to super-serve a (slightly) younger PBS audience
When Jim Pagliarini and Judy Diaz say public TV should pay more attention to a younger audience, they’re not thinking of viewers ...Partnership between Miami Herald and WLRN going strong after seven years
In the Miami Herald today (Oct. 3), Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal updates readers on its collaboration with WLRN, pubradio and TV for south Florida. ...
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