Year: 2010
PBS ombudsman’s weekly Mailbag tackles World War II bombing campaign
Michael Getler, PBS ombudsman, is warning readers that this week’s column is long. But if you’re interested in the history of America’s ...IdahoPTV loses some state funds this year, but gains a bit in FY11
Idaho Public Television has survived a proposed phase-out of its state funding (Current, Jan. 25, 2010) and actually ended up with a ...You say you want a revolution….
A new website titled Revolution PBS has drawn the attention of pubcaster/blogger John Proffitt. Proffitt notes that whatever person or group writes ...Monsignor out as g.m. at KMBH in Harlingen, Texas
Monsignor Pedro Briseño, the controversial g.m. of dual licensee KMBH in Harlingen, Texas, (Current, March 16, 2009 and May 1, 2008) has ...It’s opening day for new WNET studio at Lincoln Center
WNET/Thirteen’s new studio at Lincoln Center opens today, reports the New York Times. The glass-front facility on the corner of West 66th ...Next PBS chief content officer rules all content— as long as it’s on-air
After starting the process to hire a new chief content officer, PBS has reduced the purview of the job. The CCO will ...Next PBS chief content officer rules all content — as long as it’s on-air
After starting the process to hire a new chief content officer, PBS has reduced the purview of the job.For PBS pledge shows, overlap stations must pay extra or play later
The PBS Board tweaked its rules governing one of public TV’s touchiest ongoing internal disputes.Spectrum giveback concerns NAB president
National Association of Broadcasters President Gordon Smith (right) said the FCC’s call for a spectrum giveback is sort of like that scene ...Norm Craley, 65
Norman S. Craley, a broadcast engineer who worked 35 years at Washington’s WETA, died of cancer March 24 at the Capital Hospice ...New contract for NPR’s broadcast techs
An NPR bargaining unit of 64 broadcast technicians ratified a new five-year contract negotiated by the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and ...CPB IG issues reports on WHYY, and KDNA-FM in Washington State
Two CPB Inspector General reports are out. There’s an examination of KDNA-FM in Granger, Wash., triggered by complaints it was shirking requirements ...Pubcasting + pubaccess = pubmedia?
Public access channels and public broadcasting need to collaborate, and soon. So writes Colin Rhinesmith, community media and tech manager for Cambridge ...Ombudsman points to another diversity challenge for NPR
NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard applied a different lens to recent complaints about the lack of diversity of NPR’s programming–the presence of women ...“Surround Vision” from MIT may have pubcasting participation
WGBH isn’t publicly confirming anything, but the TG Daily news site is hinting the station may be a part of the MIT ...
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