Year: 2010
Without PBS dues relief, KCET says it will quit PBS at year’s end
After negotiating with PBS for eight months over a proposal to reduce its dues and reconfigure pubTV in the Los Angeles market, ...TV faves turn out for PBS “Pioneers of Television” panel at Press Tour
A roomful of TV talent assembled Wednesday (Aug. 4) at a panel and reception for PBS’s “Pioneers of Television” at the TCA ...NPR intern recovering from knife attack
In a random attack in the Chinatown neighborhood near NPR’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, an NPR intern was stabbed in the neck yesterday ...Complex UNC-TV story picks up even more plot twists
The already twisty-turny tale of UNC-TV turning over documents to a North Carolina General Assembly committee (Current, July 26) is becoming even ...Carl Kasell wipes the announce-booth floor with Howard Stern
It was semi-retired NPR newscaster Carl Kasell, not gazillion-dollar controversialist Howard Stern who was elected by web users to the National Radio ...PBS arts website launches on Aug. 23
PBS’s long-discussed arts website goes online Aug. 23, President Paula Kerger announced at the TCA Press Tour today (Aug. 4) in Los ...Blame game on Long Island
Who’s to blame for the “11th hour scramble” on behalf of Long Island’s WLIU? The New York Daily News quotes anonymous sources ...Yoko Ono appears for PBS at TCA Summer Press Tour
The spotlight shines on PBS today (Aug. 4) and Thursday at the ongoing Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly ...High-stakes fundraising appeal for Long Island’s WLIU
Peconic Public Broadcasting, the nonprofit that mounted a successful bid to purchase WLIU from Long Island University last fall, is struggling to ...Newsical chairs in White House briefing room finally ends
Sorry, pubcasters, NPR has lost the Great White House Briefing Room Front-Center Chair Scramble of 2010. To review: Legendary newswoman Helen Thomas ...Schorr prize offered to rising young journalists
One of the legacies inspired by the late broadcast journalist’s career is the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, now seeking contenders for the ...WGBH chooses new broadband/interactive vice president
Alexis Rapo, formerly of Disney-ABC, began work today (Aug. 2) as vice president, broadband and interactive media, for WGBH, the Boston station ...Public Insight Network to be tailored for Spanish-speaking sources in Miami
The Miami Herald and WLRN-FM have joined American Public Media’s Public Insight Network, the citizen journalism system for tapping audience members as ...Look, up in the sky!
Three new Sesame Workshop series will premiere at MIPCOM in Cannes, France, Oct. 4-8, the Workshop announced today (Aug. 2). In the ...Rare Burns films available for pledge
PBS is offering two never-broadcast Ken Burns films for pledge about painter and spiritual teacher William Segal, the New York Times reports. The Segal ...
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