Month: March 2011
STING: The Right jabs pubradio with 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 ...WNET soon to launch local news program
WNET/Thirteen in New York City is launching a local news show, MetroFocus, on Memorial Day, the New York Times is reporting. “One of the ...One of life’s persistent questions: Will Keillor really let himself retire?
Did Garrison Keillor, that red-sneakered, 68-year-old host of A Prairie Home Companion, really announce his retirement plans in an interview published last week? You ...DISARRAY: Takedown leaves gaps in network’s top ranks
NPR is facing the most serious political crisis in its history with no chief executive to speak for it, no chief fundraiser ...SRG assesses latest audience gains against 10-year goals
How much progress has public radio made toward its goal of growing its audience by 50 percent by 2020? There are bright ...Latest Nightly Business Report owner mulling options, including selling the show
Mykalai Kontilai, whose controversial past stoked headlines when he bought Nightly Business Report last August, has hired Paramount Media Advisors to explore options “from selling ...Media writer Howard Kurtz ponders if NPR is actually its own worst enemy
Is NPR’s “complete lack of a strategy to save itself” in the current crisis what’s actually doing the most damage to the network? Media analyst ...Difference between public and commercial radio? Just take a listen
Bob Davis, editor of the Anniston (Ala.) Star, undertook an experiment to determine if the “enlightened” broadcasting content that President Lyndon Johnson envisioned when he ...S.C. governor replaces entire pubcasting oversight board, prompting concerns
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s decision last week to replace the entire seven-member Educational Television Commission has pubcasting supporters worried, reports The State newspaper. “What ...NPR Music, where it’s at
A stream on NPR Music “carries as much cultural weight as an appearance on Saturday Night Live or the cover of Rolling Stone,” according to today’s (March 18) Washington Post. Bertis ...Brackets, a la public broadcasting
March Madness? Bah. Here’s Masterpiece Madness, in honor of the PBS icon’s 40th anniversary. Yes, brackets pitting popular characters against one another. ...Nova hires production company for “Japan’s Killer Quake,” to air March 30
Nova and Channel 4 in the U.K. are commissioning London’s Pioneer Productions to produce “Japan’s Killer Quake,” an original one-hour documentary on ...Public Radio International, American Public Media react to passage of H.R. 1076
In addition to banning use of federal funding for NPR programming, H.R. 1076, which passed the House Thursday (March 17), also prohibits ...Pubcasters should tout value of their “vital role” in news coverage, authors say
Len Downie Jr. and Robert Kaiser “are concerned that, in the heat of the debate, members of Congress may not realize the ...H.R. 1076 “unlikely” to find traction in Senate; Majority Leader praises NPR
The House bill approved Thursday (March 17) to keep pubradio stations from spending federal money for NPR dues and programming are “unlikely” ...
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