Month: July 2011
“New U” entrepreneur fellowship program opens
Applications are now being accepted for the latest round of the New U: News Entrepreneurs Working Through UNITY fellowship, a competitive ...Arizona PBS teams with Nightly Business Report for Phoenix bureau
Nightly Business Report has opened a Phoenix bureau in partnership with Eight, Arizona PBS. Ted Simons, host of the station’s Horizon current-events show, will lead ...Sprout channel plans “Kindness Counts” anti-bullying effort
Sprout, the children’s TV partnership of Sesame Workshop, PBS, NBC Universal and HIT Entertainment, is launching a multiplatform initiative in August, “Kindness ...KEET scores grants for unique doc that uses Japanese woodblock animation
KEET-TV in Eureka, Calif., one of the smallest stations in the pubTV system, has received two grants for its documentary, J.A. JIVE: Jazz ...Public TV’s DNA may keep it from jumping into local news coverage, Grossman says
Lawrence Grossman, PBS president from 1976 to 1984, tells the Columbia Journalism Review that the educational roots of public TV stations, as extensions of ...KCET gets funding for online/on-air arts show
KCET-TV just received a $206,300, two-year grant from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for a new arts series titled ARC, reports ...Pubcasters continue fight for vital PTFP funding
NPR and the Association of Public Television Stations haven’t yet given up on the Public Telecommunication Facilities Program, which was shut down ...The project that almost got away
In an excerpt from NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik’s book Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism, Knight Foundation ...WTMD launches social network for exploring Charm City
Baltimore’s WTMD 89.7 FM and Urbanite Magazine teamed up to launch The Great Baltimore Check-In, a web-based city-wide networking game that mixes ...KCET is “past PBS” and “gonna do just fine,” station head Al Jerome says
“We’re past PBS,” KCET President Al Jerome tells the Los Angeles Times in a story posted Monday (July 4). “We’re doing our own thing now. ...Mary Jane Wilson dies; former program director at WKAR-TV
Mary Jane Wilson, 67, former program director at WKAR-TV in East Lansing, Mich., died June 26. She served as director from 1989 ...WKAR gets new home at Michigan State; g.m. DeAnne Hamilton to leave station
WKAR, public TV and radio, has switched overseers at Michigan State University in East Lansing, as of Friday (July 1). It’s now ...Farewell, New Jersey Network
The New Jersey Network signed off for one last time at midnight Friday (July 1), several years after the state announced it ...WDUQ unsure of future of Radio Information Service for listeners who are blind
The future of the 35-year-old Radio Information Service, a volunteer reading program for listeners who are blind or visually impaired, remains uncertain ...
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