Year: 2010
Break out those pink iPods for the NewsHour
PBS NewsHour’s Jim Lehrer spoke on a panel Wednesday (Sept. 22) addressing “The Death of Old News” at the University of Nevada ...Pop star Katy Perry a little too “Hot” for Sesame Street
Katy Perry’s snug-fitting gold bustier proved a bit much for her appearance on Sesame Street. Her “Hot & Cold” music video with ...Forget CliffsNotes, just call the pubcasting Homework Hotline
Starting Oct. 4, West Virginia students get help with their homework for free, says the Register-Herald in Beckley, W.V. The Homework Hotline ...Candidate says request to alter speech for airing on WGTE showed bias
The Republican candidate for Lucas County (Ohio) auditor on Wednesday (Sept. 22) accused Toledo’s WGTE-TV/Channel 30 of favoring the Democratic incumbent, ...Television tower free-climb video generates talk among broadcast engineers
A seven-minute video of a free-climbing tower technician “has the broadcast engineering community abuzz,” says the TV Broadcast website. Free climbing “meaning ...Heat continues on university official who canceled TPT airing of agriculture doc
University of Minnesota Vice President Karen Himle, who pulled the plug on a documentary that was to run on Twin Cities Public ...KET head bows out of Birthright fundraiser
Shae Hopkins, executive director of Kentucky Educational Television, has dropped out of a fundraiser for Birthright of Lexington, which provides assistance to ...What are the odds?
It’s a good thing Ken Burns brought his glove to the Orioles-Red Sox game in Boston on Tuesday (Sept. 21). Yup, he ...Local flavors to new pubradio shows on KPCC, Public Radio Delmarva
“I want this show to always have one piece in it where someone listens to it and says, ‘You know what I ...KCET and WETA present awards on Cap Hill to child-care providers
Seventeen child-care providers were honored on Capitol Hill yesterday (Sept. 21) in ceremonies sponsored by KCET and WETA. It’s the third ...New social media outlet for NPR
NPR’s social media team launched the NPR Tumblr, a short-form blog that will feature photos and quotes that play to the strengths ...Two major pubTV stations among 11 broadcasters protesting content use by ivi
WNET, WGBH and nine other broadcasters are signatories to several cease and desist letters to the Seattle startup ivi, which is selling ...Ira Glass on “The Simpsons”? As Montgomery Burns would say, “Excellent.”
Rumor has it that Ira Glass of This American Life is making a cameo appearance on the season premiere of The Simpsons. “Elementary School Musical” also ...“State of Public Television” report: Haven’t hit financial bottom yet, CPB Board hears
The CPB Board today (Sept. 21) heard an ominous “State of Public Television” update that predicts that licensees haven’t yet seen the ...“Big Uneasy” over NPR’s response to Shearer film
Was NPR’s decision not to devote more airtime to Harry Shearer’s documentary on New Orleans–even if it was paid for as underwriting–a ...
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