Month: March 2011
Regional WAMC raises $188K for Japan disaster relief
In a special one-day fund drive, WAMC Northeast Public Radio raised more than $188,000 for disaster relief in Japan. The station, based ...University of Alabama buys WHIL-FM for $1.1 million
The University of Alabama purchased WHIL-FM from Spring Hill College on Monday (March 21) for $1.1 million, pending federal approval, reports the Press-Register. ...NPR’s Twitter connections “left of center,” Duke data shows
An analysis of NPR’s connections on Twitter “shows it has the sort of network you’d expect to see from a left-of-center person ...Forget local when shooting for national distribution, filmmaker says
PubTV station relations consultant Jennifer Owensby Sanza, who produced “The Teachings of Jon” about her brother and his challenges with Down syndrome, ...Pubcasters advise FCC to “carefully evaluate” any channel-sharing proposals
The G4 — the Association of Public Television Stations, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Television Service and National Public Radio — on ...“Civil War” April rebroadcast will premiere on mobile media
The first episode of “The Civil War” by Ken Burns will debut on the free PBS for iPad and PBS App for ...No comment on KSMQ president’s departure; board announces search for replacement
The board of directors for Austin, Minn.-based KSMQ Public Television announced today (March 21) that they are looking a new station president ...Detroit PTV opening second studio in heart of city
Detroit Public Television is opening a satellite studio in the heart of Detroit, in the historic Maccabees Building — former home to ...Who will be affected, and by how much, in House bill to defund pubradio programming
An analysis of HR 1076, the bill to prohibit federal funding for National Public Radio that won House approval on a March ...Vivian Schiller will speak at U-Texas online journalism event
Former NPR chief exec Vivian Schiller will keep her April 1 speaking engagement at the University of Texas’s international symposium on online ...The right jabs public radio with video sting using NPR fundraiser’s words
Neither Ron Schiller nor Betsy Liley had eaten before at Café Milano, the upscale see-and-be-seen restaurant in Georgetown, before Feb. 22, when ...House Labor/HHS subcommittee hearing on pubcasting funding alternatives canceled
The Capitol Hill hearing on alternative means to fund public broadcasting, which had been announced for April 6, has been canceled due ...Many different takes on the fight over public radio funding
After last week’s House vote on federal funding for public radio, the debate continued to rage on op-ed pages and blogs. Here’s ...Meet the Cardozos, a public-media family
“New Public Media Networks: What’s Becoming and What Might Be” is a new animated video from American University’s Center for Social Media ...House bill saves no money but fights ‘liberal’ bogeyman
After a nearly two-hour battle pitting fiscal conservatism against the value of publicly funded media, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a ...
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