Year: 2010
What’s that up there? (page 2)
AM: still used by several dozen pubcasters AM radio uses the low frequencies where radio began, which have much longer wavelengths. While FM ...High stakes + direct access = full engagement
Noel Gunther remembers the moment when he realized that public broadcasting had to get involved in traumatic brain injury education. It was ...CPB’s 2011 business plan continues to back mergers and consolidations
The CPB Board’s 2011 business plan, now online (PDF), was approved during its meeting Nov. 15 and 16 in New Orleans. CPB’s ...What’s that up there?
Talk about collaboration! A typical FM/TV tower can be home to dozens of antennas for stations and other spectrum users. Five full-power TV ...FCC extends Emergency Alert System deadline
The FCC has extended the deadline for complying with new Emergency Alert System rules, reports Television Broadcast today (Nov. 24). The new ...Good reason to give thanks: NewsHour’s TSA Time page
Traveling for Turkey Day? Check out PBS NewsHour’s handy TSA Time page, which organizes Tweets by airport. This from O’Hare in Chicago: “OHare super ...Let’s hope there are cookies in the Green Room . . .
Cookie Monster wants to host Saturday Night Live. (Hey, if octogenarian Betty White can do it . . .) Want to help? Watch Sesame Street’s latest ...PBS’s Reddington shifts from Online Giving Initiative to PBS Foundation work
Brian Reddington, senior v.p., development, has moved from supervision of its Online Giving Initiative to focus solely on the PBS Foundation, Michael ...PBS selects new director of station development services
PBS has hired a director of station development services to plug the hole created in June when laid off four staffers in ...Feder departing Vocalo; another columnist calls its future “uncertain”
Robert Feder, longtime Chicago media columnist, is departing Chicago Public Media and its Vocalo blog. He said in a post today (Nov. ...WFMT-FM breaks record with fall pledge drive
Chicago’s WFMT-FM (98.7) set a record with fall pledge, bringing in $695,000, General Manager Steve Robinson said in a Sun-Times story today (Nov. ...Hiki Nō student news project finalizes funding
Hiki Nō, PBS Hawaii’s new and innovative student news network, has secured the funding it needs and will launch in February 2011, ...Smiley says it’s “unconscionable” he didn’t know about producing partner KCET’s plans to depart PBS
Tavis Smiley said “it’s unthinkable, it’s untenable, it’s unacceptable,” that KCET execs didn’t let him know that they were breaking from PBS ...Documentaries on PBS short-listed for Oscar nominations
Three PBS documentaries are on the short list for Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced. “Genius Within: ...Fight over NPR funding: is it a “culture war,” or principled debate?
What’s really at stake in the battle over federal funding to NPR, and how can the field’s advocates make the best case ...
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