Month: July 2011
Puerto Rico’s WIPR: adiós to PBS
The latest station to leave PBS is a production powerhouse, but one not fully integrated into the nation’s English-dominated public TV system. Puerto ...Juan Williams’s account of his NPR ouster hits bookstores today
Fox News analyst Juan Williams is back in the news — promoting his new book Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, which ...PBS dishes up new food site
A preview version of the upcoming PBS Food website went online today (July 25), according to the PBS Station Products and Innovation ...Few pubradio licensees considering sales or mergers, survey finds
The vast majority of stations responding to the University Station Alliance’s most recent economic survey reported that they’re not likely to be ...Listen closely: What matters to your community — and to donors?
“Outreach is about changing somebody else. Engagement is when you have been changed,” says Mikel Ellcessor, g.m. of WDET in Detroit. “And ...NJN fundraising group will assist successor network affiliated with WNET
No hard feelings in evidence, the New Jersey Network’s nonprofit fundraising group said last week it will help raise production money for ...PBS dropping 21 staff positions, including veteran screeners
Thirteen current staff positions and eight vacant positions are being eliminated at PBS headquarters in Arlington, Va., and six “new or restructured” ...FCC plan could give LPFM apps an edge over FM translators
Applicants for thousands of FM translators may have to reapply if the FCC goes through with its proposal to give new low-power ...Subsidies lost, urgency gained
As public broadcasting braces for expected cuts from its most predictable revenue source — the annual CPB appropriation — system leaders are ...Pre-Baroque deejay Robert Aubry Davis to do show in ladies’ housecoats
Robert Aubry Davis is not painfully shy. He does pledge breaks for Washington’s WETA-TV, after all. For the winter holidays, local media ...At 61, KCRW’s Diana Nyad preparing for record-breaking swim
Marathon swimmer and KCRW commentator Diana Nyad, 61 years old, is getting ready to swim for 60 hours over 103 miles across ...Lights. Camera. Help. festival in Austin spotlights cause films
Here’s a Q&A from KUT in Austin, Texas, with two of the creators of Lights. Camera. Help., who discuss the only festival ...Daily Show’s Jon Stewart: Here’s a real news media pile-on
In a retort to media critics who question news competitors’ motives in devoting so much coverage to the phone-hacking scandal that has ...V-me Kids now available on former PBS member station WIPR in Puerto Rico
V-me Kids, V-me’s cable channel for Latino preschoolers, is now running on WIPR in Puerto Rico, which just dropped its membership to ...Anonymous donors provide help to WHYY for NJN deal
At least two anonymous contributions are assisting WHYY in Philadelphia in its takeover of five FM stations from the NJN Network, reports Shore ...
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