Year: 2010
Frontline delays “Dancing Boys” documentary
Frontline has delayed its Dancing Boys of Afghanistan documentary due to concerns over the safety of a boy in the film, Broadcasting & Cable reports. ...BNET says San Francisco news hybrid is a no-go; Berkeley dean denies report
The deal to start up a local nonprofit news organization in San Francisco (Current, Oct. 13, 2009) has fallen apart, according a BNET ...Strategies for pubradio audience growth lack priorities, Sutton says
Public radio marketing consultant John Sutton is troubled by the “something for everybody” approach outlined in “Public Radio in the New Network ...Start social networking before disaster strikes
In an interview with BayNewser, Andy Carvin explains how NPR News is using social media to track developments and find sources in ...PBS stunned at volume of preschoolers’ video streaming: 87.5 million streams in month
PBS was expecting online streaming of PBS Kids shows for the 2-5 set to be popular when it started late last year; ...$25 million in financial aid flows to pubcasting stations
Today pubcasting stations received their share of $25 million in fiscal stabilization grants (Current, Dec. 14, 2009) from the Consolidated Appropriations Act from ...Press tour Nature panel includes Pugsley the 13-foot python
Nature e.p. Fred Kaufman remained surprisingly calm yesterday considering he was sitting next to a man with a 13-foot Burmese python named ...Overall, “good years” for PBS, critic comments from press tour
Barry Garron, reporting on the TV Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena for the Hollywood Reporter, tells Current the PBS executive ...Noncoms may fundraise for Haiti, FCC announces
The Federal Communications Commission has given permission to noncom stations to raise money for Haiti earthquake relief (PDF). Rules usually limit NCE ...Four duPont-Columbias awarded to pubcasters
Four of the 2010 duPont-Columbia Awards announced this morning went to public broadcasting news programs, including investigative reports by American RadioWorks ...NPR reports to appear on PBS pubaffairs web site, Kerger says at press tour
PBS President Paula Kerger said NPR news content will be included on the upcoming pubaffairs website, according to insiders at the Television ...Kerger criticizes commercial TV children’s programming
In kids’ programming on commercial networks, “The line between commerce and content are blurred beyond recognition. . . . Advertising is so ...PBS’s Kerger says one night per week will be all arts programming
PBS President Paula Kerger announced details of PBS’s long-planned arts initiative at a Town Hall Los Angeles meeting yesterday, according to the ...PBS to unveil new public affairs series from WNET
Update, Friday, Jan. 15: WNET will discontinue two other public affairs series, Expose and Wide Angle, while starting up production of Need ...Press tour introduces critics to PBS winter programming
The Television Critics Association winter press tour is under way in Pasadena, Calif. Tomorrow is the big day for PBS, with 12 ...
Current is an editorially independent, nonprofit service of the American University School of Communication. We're funded by your subscriptions, your donations, advertising, and a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation.