Year: 2010
Racy postcards in Mr. Hooper’s store? Who knew?
Writer David Fagin doesn’t quite understand the furor over pop star Katy Perry’s bustier on Sesame Street. He worked for the show several years back and reveals ...Craigslist founder predicts that NPR will be reporting powerhouse
NPR will be a dominant force in media in 10 years because its membership-based funding model is “finely tuned to the ...FEMA approves new emergency alert protocol; stations have 180 days to update
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday (Sept. 30) adopted the new digital message format for the Common Alerting Protocol standard, reports ...Potential LA-area consortium stations meet
Execs from the four Los Angeles-area PBS affiliates considering a collaboration met Wednesday (Sept. 28) to discuss a restructuring plan, according to ...PBS North to premiere mental-health series tonight
An ambitious 18-part series of call-in shows on mental health premieres tonight (Sept. 30), produced by WDSE/WRPT PBS North, serving northeastern Minnesota ...STEM Collaborative joins four pubTV stations in middle-school work
Four pubTV stations are joining in a STEM Collaborative to help middle-schoolers in science, technology, engineering and math, the stations announced today ...Still no decisions for New Jersey Network
New Jersey Network staffers, state officials, professors from Princeton and Rutgers, civic and union leaders and viewers and listeners spoke Wednesday (Sept. ...PBS, other broadcasters suing TV programming provider ivi
Several major broadcasters, including PBS, and other content providers filed a lawsuit in New York federal district court against ivi TV on ...Knight-sponsored courtroom project considers transparency vs. privacy
WBUR’s Order in the Court 2.0, winner of a $250,000 Knight News Challenge grant, is working to set best practices for effective ...PBS viewers continue cleavage debate
The Great Sesame Street Katy Perry Cleavage Kerfuffle continues, with Team Perry taking the lead. PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler said that after ...Pacific Islanders’ “One Voice” takes to the skies
A 15-minute segment of One Voice, the latest doc from Minority Consortia group Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC), is soaring high over the Pacific ...After three extensions, Peconic meets deadline with cash to buy WLIU’s independence
With the help of $300,000 from two major donors and a bank loan of up to $337,000, WLIU-FM management is now prepared ...State broadcasting group takes precautions for Vegas PBS live campaign debate
Vegas PBS will produce the only live televised debate in the extremely contentious race between U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and GOP challenger ...NewsHour announces new science unit under former CNNer Miles O’Brien
PBS NewsHour isn’t resting on its recent Emmy laurels. It’s hired former CNN reporter Miles O’Brien to head a new science unit, reports the ...Ten Indian stations among 31 signal expansion projects aided by NTIA
Thirty-one projects got matching Public Telecommunications Facilities Program grants to bring first public radio or TV service to a total of 500,000 ...
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