Year: 2010
It’s a plan
Comic recreation of a gripping behind-the-scenes drama playing itself out at the Federal Communications Commission, animated using Xtranormal technology.“An American Family” heads back to 1973, once again
The stars of TV’s very first reality series, PBS’s An American Family, are reliving their 1973 lives as consultants on Cinema Verite, ...Move carefully on spectrum, FCC commissioner warns Congress
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps advises Congress to move carefully in reclaiming spectrum from broadcasters because of the potential harm to a ...Private nonprofit corporations: Tough to define
Rick Cohen of the Nonprofit Quarterly, who blogs on the intersection of nonprofs, politics and policy, asks the question: “When is a ...Fanning on a ‘big bang’ moment for Frontline: bringing online depth to reporting
David Fanning, e.p. of Frontline, discussed the WGBH program’s evolving use of the Web Aug. 23, 2010, in accepting the Goldsmith Career Award ...Hinojosa & Collins: high hopes for partnership in the cloud
The host of Latino USA for all of its 17 years, Maria Hinojosa, is now its proprietor, too, along with producer Sean Collins, her ...Giving by texting: So far, you’d LOL at net proceeds
Americans’ response to the post-earthquake crisis in Haiti demonstrated the power of technology-enabled charity, but public broadcasters who ...TechCon attendees to examine NGIS
One theme of TechCon 2010, PBS’s annual technical and management confab April 7-9, will be “doing more with less,” PBS’s Chief Technology ...PBCore expands into 2.0 version
CPB today announced PBCore 2.0, a development project to improve pubcasting’s metadata and cataloging resource since 2005. CPB is working to expand ...Hopes of viewers and producers invested in Need to Know
Ten weeks before the air date of Need to Know, WNET announced the executive producer. Seven weeks before, the producing station named the co-anchors. ...Jim McEachern, 71, NPR’s point man for infrastructure
Jim McEachern, who was the principal technical leader for the Public Radio Satellite System for its first two decades and was a ...PBS arts programming disappoints columnist
In today’s column Terry Teachout, the Wall Street Journal’s drama critic, laments what he terms PBS’s “slow but steady shrinkage of airtime devoted to ...Will do-gooder pubcasters in South Dakota lose state money?
Now it’s South Dakota pubcasting that may face state funding reductions. The Daily Republic in Mitchell, S.D., reports that Republican state legislator ...System needs evolution, not revolution, writes digital strategist Rob Bole
Public broadcasting thought leader Rob Bole declares himself an evolutionist — at least when it comes to the growth of the pubcasting ...Newsweek editor, Bryant Park co-host are faces of new PBS Friday-night hour
WNET confirmed yesterday that Alison Stewart, former cohost of NPR’s Bryant Park Project, and Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, will be co-hosts ...
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