Year: 2010
Washington State burg to get first locally produced pubradio station
A think tank in tiny Hoquiam, Wash., about 70 miles west of Olympia, has received a license from the FCC to create ...El Paso PBS station gets interim general manager
With the departure of g.m. Craig Brush earlier this month from PBS affiliate KCOS in El Paso, Texas, retired TV exec Dan ...New program delivery technology now in beta testing, after holdups
PBS’s Next Generation Interconnection System-Non-Real-Time Program File Delivery Project (NGIS-NRT) is back on track, after challenges including federal funding snags, a ...Gov’t officials critical of nonprofit Friends units
Nonprofit fundraising arms of the state-owned network in West Virginia and the school-board-operated stations in Miami are under fire as public officials ...KQED producer blogs her Arctic journey
Gretchen Weber, associate producer for Climate Watch on KQED in San Francisco, is spending two weeks at Toolik Field Station, an ...Lack of vision hinders bringing in new pubTV viewers, experts tell paper
Crain’s Chicago Business today (June 21) takes a look into both WTTW’s current money woes and pubTV’s future plans. The Chicago PBS ...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 ...KCTS seeks relationship with incoming neighbor, Gates Foundation
Today, Seattle’s Crosscut.com concludes its two-part story on KCTS and its CEO, Moss Bresnahan. He’s hoping the station can work together with ...Don’t forget about risk, Rob Bole advises
Pubcasting thought leader Rob Bole writes on his Public Purpose Media blog that public service media no longer has an innovation problem. ...Viewers get a season-kickoff Tweetfest with History Detectives team
History Detectives launches its eighth season Monday (June 21) with a live Tweetfest. Viewers get to chat with the show’s investigative team while watching ...Zeleznik facebox
PRNDI honored Cincinnati-area news director Maryanne Zeleznik with the Leo C. Lee Award for her three decades of work in public radio ...Ralph Lowell Medal and others, May 2010
The primary figures in the histories of the PBS series Frontline and Sesame Street were saluted by PBS CPB Ralph Lowell Medal: Frontline auteur David Fanning received ...APTS Awards for 2009
The Association of Public Television Stations thanked advocates beyond the D.C. Beltway APTS gave its David J. Brugger Grassroots Advocacy Award to Dr. ...Streamy Awards for 2009
The Secret Life of Scientists, produced by Seftel Productions for WGBH’s Nova unit, won a Streamy The online series on PBS.org was judged the best ...Public Radio News Directors Awards for 2009
Zeleznik tapped for Leo C. Lee Award Maryanne Zeleznik, news director of Cincinnati’s WVXU, received the annual Leo C. Lee Award from ...
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