Year: 2010
Weekend Edition’s Scott Simon on the mend after spinal surgery
NPR’s Weekend Edition anchor Scott Simon has emerged from cervical spinal surgery to resume Tweeting about the experience. “Long surgery, went well, ...CPB partnering with groups to offer public service announcements, other help
CPB, the American Red Cross and the Ad Council are working together to provide stations public service announcements on the earthquake ...PBS releases details on Friday’s Haiti telethon
“Hope for Haiti Now,” an MTV-produced global telethon for earthquake victims on the island, will run on many cable and broadcast channels ...Masterpiece’s “Emma” gets her very own Twitter party
Jane Austen’s Emma gets a thoroughly modern treatment from Masterpiece this Sunday: A Twitter party. During the premiere of episode one, 9-11 ...New research shows first drop in kids’ traditional TV viewing
A study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation reveals that for the first time, kids ages 8 to 18 spent less ...Kids programming confab in February
A three-day course to help producers develop and sell preschool TV shows is coming up Feb. 13-15 in New York City. Little ...More pubcasting help for Haiti
WAMC/Northeast Public Radio will open its phone banks at 8 p.m. Friday during a James Taylor benefit concert for Haiti in Great ...U.S. entries in INPUT festival selected
U.S. public TV’s 17 entries in the annual INPUT international public television screening showcase have been selected, including five Independent Lens and three P.O.V. docs, ...FCC will help Haiti, as are pubcasting stations
The Federal Communications Commission will assist Haiti to provide a “continuity of service” for communications in the aftermath of the devastating Jan. ...KALW beta testing news website
San Francisco’s KALW-FM launched a new website today that combines local news, arts and culture coverage and community engagement. KALWNews.org features reporting ...“Think Tank” ending 15-year run
The long-running weekly pubaffairs series Think Tank With Ben Wattenberg is ceasing production at the end of the month, according to a ...Audience study fails to think outside the box, Hill says
Public radio needs to completely re-engineer itself for the networked environment, writes Hearts of Space producer and host Stephen Hill, in a ...Robben Fleming, one of CPB’s best presidents, ‘seemed to me the least interested in himself’
David Stewart, one of CPB’s original employees and later a writer and Current contributing editor, sent this letter after the death of Robben ...Public media conference to focus on high-impact projects
“Real Stories, Real Impact” is the subject of this year’s Making Your Media Matter confab sponsored by the Center for Social Media ...Blogger criticizes “Between the Lions” CD in Chick-fil-A kids’ meal
Tim Graham, a blogger with the conservative site Newsbusters, was upset during a recent drive-through visit to Chick-fil-A. Included in his daughter’s ...
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