Month: July 2011
Jane Lynch turns supervillain for upcoming WordGirl movie
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Jane Lynch, the villainous cheerleader coach on Fox’s Glee, will have a guest-star as an animated supervillain on a ...At TCA press tour, ‘House’ extols jazz; first new series from Fred Rogers Co. coming
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — TV’s Dr. Gregory House will reveal a little-known specialty this fall: a talent for singing and playing jazz piano. ...Interim g.m. of former PBS station WDSC announces resignation
The interim general manager of Daytona State College’s WDSC-TV, which recently dropped PBS membership, is resigning in September. “I believe the television station ...Internal programming break research continuing, Kerger tells press tour
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — More than two months after raising the prospect of primetime promotional breaks within programs, PBS is still studying the ...Ombudsman asks: Is PBS overlooking major arts story?
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler has written an interesting column on PBS arts coverage. Namely, why PBS, with its rejuvenated focus on the ...Nonprofit Seattle PostGlobe, launched with KCTS assistance in 2009, is closing
The Seattle PostGlobe, which launched in 2009 as an early online nonprofit newspaper venture with help from public broadcasting station KCTS 9 ...In WJMF takeover, WGBH shows how to make friends in college radio
Among the student-operated college stations to be converted into mainstream public radio FMs this year, the hand-over of Bryant University’s WJMF to ...WNED acquires WBFO, two other stations, from University of Buffalo in $4 million deal
WNED is paying the University of Buffalo $4 million to operate WBFO-FM 88.7 and two other New York stations, the parties announced ...Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy holds first meeting on future of pubcasting
In the first of an ongoing series of discussions on the future public broadcasting, the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and ...Essential Public Media predicts big ratings boost by fall
Station leaders of the new Essential Public Media believe they can top the former WDUQ’s best audience numbers — in fact, by ...Knight-Batten honor goes to NPR’s Carvin for his “new form of journalism”
NPR’s Tweeter extraordinaire Andy Carvin has won a Knight-Batten Award for having “pioneered a new form of journalism” during the recent Arab ...McCain criticizes Reid’s debt-ceiling plan for including spectrum auction payments
A proposed auction of television spectrum has now become tangled up in the onerous ongoing debate over raising the debt ceiling, Broadcasting & Cable ...Roadshow scores highest-ever appraisal
Public TV ratings fave Antiques Roadshow recorded its highest-value appraisal ever on July 23 in Tulsa, Okla. Asian arts expert Lark Mason estimated that ...KCET briefly pulls ahead of PBS’s main station in L.A.
Though it now does without PBS programs, KCET briefly recovered its role as the most-watched public TV station in Los Angeles in ...Pittsburgh’s all-news startup gets an assist from CPB
CPB is backing development of Essential Public Media, the nonprofit whose purchase of Pittsburgh’s WDUQ is pending before the FCC. At the ...
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