Year: 2010
Upcoming PBS concert has gamers excited
The video gaming community is going bonkers in anticipation of a PBS special airing July 31 and through August. And it’s no ...Veterans’ welcome home morphed from doc to project to movement
Wisconsin Public Television’s LZ Lambeau “welcome home” outreach for Vietnam veterans and their supporters last month was judged so successful that pubcasters ...“LZ” webinar registration opens
Registration is now open for the June 23 webinar on LZ Lambeau from the National Center for Media Engagement. The event, a ...Newspaper reports “radical restructuring” probable for New Jersey Network
The Daily Record of Parsnippany, N.J., today (June 6) takes an in-depth look at the challenges facing NJN pubTV and radio. It reports that ...NPR, on the cutting edge of silliness
By now you’ve probably heard about NPR President Vivian Schiller’s controversial remarks about the future of radio at D8, the Wall Street Journal’s All ...Chicago’s WTTW to reduce staff by 12 percent
WTTW-Channel 11 will let go 12 percent of its staff, between 25 and 30 positions, due to poor corporate underwriting and a ...Ken Burns lucks into opening pitch for historic game
Here’s a nice bit of publicity for PBS’s upcoming “Tenth Inning”: Docmeister Ken Burns will toss the first pitch at the long-awaited ...Web analysis mentoring program assists PBS.org
A unique mentoring program provided PBS with analytics and advice for PBS.org, reports Internet Retailer. The digital analysis firm Web Analytics Demystified ...Shapiro takes on Apple’s uncharitable policy
Jake Shapiro of Public Radio Exchange challenges Apple’s prohibition on iPhone applications that solicit donations for charitable causes in a guest article ...Sutton plays out the scenario of radio oblivion by 2020
NPR President Vivian Schiller’s remarks at D8 yesterday don’t jibe with her reassurances that NPR “is not trying to do an end ...West Virginia takes control of state pubcasting underwriting funds
The West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority, licensee for the state’s pubradio and television stations, on June 2 approved the transfer of ...FCC starting up Native Nations Broadband Task Force
The Federal Communications Commission announced June 2 (PDF) that it is seeking members for an FCC-Native Nations Broadband Task Force to help ...PBS NewsHour seeking ideas to keep its BP oil spill video feed streaming
A Gulf Leak Meter widget and live video stream of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have provided PBS NewsHour with ...WTVI salvages nearly $100,000 from proposed $860,000 county cuts
While state budget woes continue to threaten public broadcasters, WTVI in Charlotte, N.C., is running into county funding problems. Mecklenburg County provides ...Fellow grantmakers salute Wallace Foundation for funding “The Principal” on P.O.V.
Next Sunday the funder of The Principal Story, a doc that aired in September on P.O.V., will receive the first Woodward A. Wickham Award for ...
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