Year: 2010
Virginia station pairs with university for civic engagement
Virginia’s WHRO-TV/WHRV-FM and Old Dominion University are partnering on civic engagement opportunities, the university announced today (Aug. 12). Cathy Lewis, host of ...Majority in survey think government shouldn’t make broadband a priority
A just-released report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project reveals that 53 percent of Americans don’t think spreading broadband availability ...Stars galore on new season of Sesame Street
The guest list for the 41st season of Sesame Street premiering Sept. 27, reads like a who’s who of Hollywood hipness. Just ...Fascinating factoid of the day
Tavis Smiley does not own a cell phone.Pubcasting supporter Ted Stevens dies in plane crash
The Anchorage Daily News has confirmed that former Republican Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, 86, a longtime public broadcasting champion, died in a plane crash ...CPB auditing Arkansas radio station associated with ACORN
Community radio station KABF (88.3 FM) in Little Rock, Ark., currently under audit by CPB, “may be broke in a matter of ...WNET sheds half of its office space, much old equipment
WNET.org has signed a lease for midtown Manhattan office space half the size of its present quarters near Penn Station, the licensee ...Other stations like the plan so much, they say it’s theirs
A consultant’s study of public TV’s crowded Los Angeles market, commissioned by CPB, predicts a highly integrated collaboration among the area’s four ...Sesame to help kids in Abu Dhabi “Reach for the Sky”
Sesame Workshop is partnering with the Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy to produce “Reach for the Sky,” a science event beginning this month ...‘Snap Judgment’: latest in harvest from ’07 Talent Quest
Snap Judgment, one of three new shows conceived from the CPB-backed Public Radio Talent Quest, has become a whirlwind of multimedia production with the ...KCET warns it may leave PBS
After negotiating with PBS for eight months over a proposal to reduce its dues and remake public TV in the Los Angeles ...Rockefeller spectrum bill would make bandwidth turnover voluntary
A bill introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) authorizes a spectrum auction but guarantees that the bandwidth turnover would be ...Footage in “LennonNYC” surprises Ono
Yoko Ono generated news from the PBS stage Thursday (Aug. 5) during the TCA Summer Press Tour, saying she still opposes parole ...And now, in the center ring . . .
The “Circus” came to town today (Aug. 5) courtesy of PBS at the ongoing TCA Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles. The ...Will KCET secede from PBS?
For our RSS subscribers, don’t miss the story just posted on current.org on KCET’s possible departure from PBS as of Jan. 1, ...
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