Year: 2010
NPR’s latest iPhone app: a new vehicle for sharing music
A new NPR app for iPhone users launched last night. “[W]ith the NPR Music app for the iPhone, we have another crucial ...Charleston Gazette: Private nonprofits protect WVPB from politics
Who should control the private monies raised to support West Virginia Public Broadcasting? Not the administration of Governor Joe Manchin, according to ...New York Post questions whether PBS should exist
“Move on, Big Bird,” insists a New York Post headline. It cites problems such as WNET’s recent federal investigation, then launches ...Charlotte PBS affiliate begins cutbacks in staff, programming
The slashing has begun at WTVI in Charlotte, N.C., after Mecklenburg County cut its support from nearly $860,000 to just $95,000, according ...Knight-McCormick fellows include four public broadcasters
Four pubcasters are among 20 fellows announced today (June 23) for the 2010 Knight-McCormick Leadership Institute hosted by the Knight Digital Media ...Yellowstone pubradio personality dies at 55
Lois Bent, a longtime voice on Yellowstone Public Radio, died June 15 after an 18-month fight against cancer. She was 55. According to ...WTTW honors John Callaway with fellowship
Chicago’s WTTW has created the John Callaway Excellence in Online Journalism Fellowship, the station will announce on this evening’s Chicago Tonight (June ...CPB Board gets reports on station collaborations at meeting in Beverly Hills
Among items on the agenda at the CPB meeting wrapping up today (June 23) in Los Angeles are reports on pubTV collaboration ...PBS’s satellite developer John Ball dies
John Edward Dewar Ball, who oversaw development of PBS’s first satellite-based programming delivery system and was an early supporter of closed ...WGBH helping Disney World visitors to “hear” the park
The Media Access Group at WGBH is providing audio descriptions of Walt Disney World for visitors with vision loss. A new palm-sized ...Half of testers use mobile DTV devices once or twice a day, comments reveal
The first reactions from consumers are rolling in from ongoing tests of mobile DTV in and around Washington, D.C., according to a ...FCC gathering tech experts for broadcast engineering forum June 25
PBS’s Chief Technology Officer John McCoskey is among speakers at the Federal Communication Commission’s upcoming broadcast engineering forum (PDF). The June 25 ...CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund weekly series RFP
Three years after Latino activists bitterly criticized Ken Burns’s The War for omitting interviews with Hispanic soldiers and sailors, CPB and PBS concluded negotiations ...Accounting problems cost WNET $1 for every $7 in federal grants
WNET’s accounting problems have cost it $1.96 million out of a series of production grants totaling $13 million, following a two-year federal ...Schedule: web platform model by year’s end
An NPR-led project this month officially launched planning for a joint Public Media Platform to put public radio and TV content on ...
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