Month: September 2013
Feature Story News helps stations fill gap left by Free Speech Radio News
Pacifica is replacing its recently canceled half-hour news program Free Speech Radio News with a news show produced by Feature Story News, an independent broadcast news ...Online resource PBS LearningMedia registers more than 1 million users
PBS LearningMedia, a digital classroom resource for K–12 educators, topped more than 1 million registered users this month. Operated through a partnership ...Alabama Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit stemming from 2012 APT dismissals
The Alabama Supreme Court on Sept. 27 threw out a lawsuit filed following the 2012 dismissal of two top executives from Alabama ...Two-year plan to balance NPR’s budget includes staff reduction
NPR girded for a difficult leadership transition Sept. 13 when its board authorized management to trim the network’s workforce by up to ...Expansion of classical radio belies format’s many challenges
ATLANTA — Representatives of classical radio stations resolved last week to work toward creating a new organization to represent their format within ...New PRI.org highlights network’s focus on global news
Public Radio International has revamped its website to absorb the web presence of PRI’s The World, reflecting the network’s aim to develop a higher ...KCRW brings live Morning Becomes Eclectic performances to YouTube
Select musical performances from KCRW-FM’s signature show Morning Becomes Eclectic are now streaming live on YouTube. The Los Angeles station kicked off the new ...Viewers get early peek at new Doc Martin from subscription streamer Acorn TV
Acorn TV, the subscription-based British TV streaming service for U.S. viewers, begins offering new episodes of Doc Martin exclusively on Oct. 7 — months ...WILL, WTVP start ‘dating’ by sharing general manager
The arrangement grew out of a neighborly collaborative relationship between the stations as well as a desire to save personnel costs.PBS’s top engineer McCoskey heading to Motion Picture Association of America
John McCoskey, PBS’s head of technology for six years, has accepted a position as executive vice president and chief technology officer at ...Radio Ambulante partners with PRI to produce English-language content
Radio Ambulante, the Spanish-language storytelling podcast and radio program, is the first show to be backed by Public Radio International’s New Voices ...Internet creatives John and Sarah Green bring art-focused show to PBS Digital Studios
PBS Digital Studios is partnering with John and Sarah Green, a husband-and-wife creative team with a large YouTube following, for a new ...Sheriff arrests two in connection with break-in at West Virginia pubcasting tower site
Two men were arrested Wednesday and charged with breaking and entering in connection with a burglary at a remote West Virginia Public ...Jim Henson’s daughter donates Elmo, Bert, Ernie and other Muppets to Smithsonian
Cheryl Henson, daughter of Jim Henson, donated 21 Muppet puppets and props to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on Sept. ...PBS SoCal offering Imagen Awards for pubTV broadcast
For the first time, PBS SoCal will distribute the annual Imagen Awards for broadcast on public television stations nationwide. The honors recognize positive ...
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