Month: March 2011
PubTV, radio rake in Peabody Awards
Pubcasters won 18 of the 39 George Foster Peabody Awards announced this morning by the University of Georgia. PBS led the ...Layoffs, program cutbacks loom at South Dakota Public Broadcasting
South Dakota Public Broadcasting will reduce local programming and educational services and lay off seven of 57 employees as a result of ...KCET reportedly in talks to sell studio property to Church of Scientology
KCET is in negotiations to sell its Sunset Boulevard studios to the Church of Scientology, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. Real estate brokers tell the ...South Dakota Public Broadcasting shoots (video) and scores!
A South Dakota Public Broadcasting video has gone viral with more than half a million views, thanks to a spectacular heave-ho, half-court basketball ...Latino Public Broadcasting hires Sandie Viquez Pedlow as new director
Sandie Viquez Pedlow takes over as executive director of Latino Public Broadcasting on July 6, according to an announcement today (March 30). ...Economist editorial: NPR may be better off without federal funding
The debate over federal funding to public radio isn’t really about how the money is distributed, and how much local stations depend ...Red Green rolls on
How’d pubcasting fave Red Green come up with that name, anyway? “I was making fun of a guy who had a TV ...WQXR’s Limor Tomer departing for post at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Limor Tomer, executive producer for music at New York Public Radio’s classical station WQXR, is leaving to head up the Metropolitan Museum ...MacNeil returns to NewsHour for special reports on autism
Robert MacNeil, co-founder of PBS NewsHour, is returning to the show to present Autism Today, a six-part series on the disorder that affects 1 in 110 ...Got videos?
OK, so your station has some cool videos online. Now what? Get ideas for using them to pull in more eyeballs during ...NPR halts search for news exec to focus on top post
NPR is suspending its search for a senior vice president for news until it hires a permanent c.e.o., according to an email ...NPR runs Frontline reporting segment on WikiLeak soldier
Frontline today (March 29) provided NPR’s Morning Edition portions of its reporting on the private life of Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the soldier who ...Ken Burns, Lynn Novick working on major Vietnam series for PBS
PBS today (March 28) announced that documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick will produce and direct a 10- to 12-hour series about ...South Carolina ETV educating all-new pubcasting commission
New South Carolina ETV President Linda O’Bryon (formerly of KQED and Nightly Business Report) tells the Anderson Independent Mail that she’s simultaneously working to develop ETV’s ...KPCC trying techniques “rarely employed” in pubradio to double audience
Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that Southern California Public Radio executives are using business tactics “rarely employed in the tame world of local public radio ...
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