Year: 2010
Yes, web use is growing, but TV is still setting records
This paper began with a simple question. A station manager wanted to compare the sizes of her station’s web audience with its ...Project for L.A.’s youth of color still lacks FM channel
The masterminds of efforts such as NPR’s Bryant Park Project and Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo know well the difficulties ...PBS won’t raise dues income again next year; Kerger warns it may lose capabilities and ...
Paula Kerger wants public TV stations to know that the combination of flat station dues, dwindling resources and balanced budgets may be ...How to get the best quality out of the digital television standard
PBS convened and CPB supported the PBS Quality Group’s evangelism for DTV quality in 2010 and 2011. The group, including tech specialists ...Moth Radio Hour returns with major foundation grant
The MacArthur Foundation awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant for production of The Moth Radio Hour, a series of live story telling performances ...Dyson show prepares for second pubradio launch
Baltimore’s WEAA has begun piloting the Michael Eric Dyson Show, a midday talk show that is being reincarnated for a second try at pubradio ...A famous head, a lost mouth and the History Detectives
Thanks to PBS’s History Detectives, Andrew Jackson’s mouth will be returned to his head. It’s part of an upcoming episode filmed on the USS ...Home-brew beer law could endanger WYES fundraiser
WYES in New Orleans is fretting over how the pending Louisiana Homemade Beer Law will affect its long-running International Beer T asting, ...This Budd’s for you, but not for the CBC
CBC Radio has canned Barbara Budd, co-host of As It Happens — radio that’s too cheeky to be Canadian. She leaves the ...Connection to community important to “New Muslim Cool,” report details
“New Muslim Cool: Engaging Stakeholders in the Filmmaking Process” is the latest Public Media 2.0 Field Report from the Center for Social ...APTS names Thompson interim president
Lonna Thompson will serve as interim president and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations in the wake of Larry Sidman’s ...Car rams through wall at WPBS in northern New York
WPBS in Watertown, N.Y., got a jolt early last Saturday when a car crashed through one of its walls, reports Newzjunky.com, a ...Take an afternoon music video break, courtesy of WETA
It’s cherry blossom (and pledge) time in Washington, D.C., and WETA is offering an e-card on its website to share a bit ...It’s a national nosh for POV’s “Food, Inc.”
Planning to watch Food, Inc., on April 21 on PBS? Great opportunity for a potluck, POV points out. It’s encouraging viewers nationwide ...Jaime Escalante dies; inspirational educator had PBS show
Famed educator Jaime Escalante, of PBS’s Futures with Jaime Escalante, died early yesterday morning, reports the Associated Press. He was 79. ...
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