Month: September 2013
New WYZR brings jazz back to Pittsburgh area
Former staffers of Pittsburgh’s defunct WDUQ-FM have returned to the airwaves with WYZR, a jazz station that signed on Aug. 31 from ...Betty Cope, WVIZ founding g.m., dies at 87
Betty Cope, the founding general manager of Cleveland’s pubTV station and one of the first women to ascend into television broadcast management, ...Detroit PTV looks to bring cultural groups together through its new arts series
Detroit Public Television is using its new arts series, Detroit Performs, to showcase the Motor City’s talents on a wider scale. Local reaction to ...Pacifica’s financial woes drive Free Speech Radio News to shutter production
The financial stranglehold on Pacifica is taking down Free Speech Radio News, a progressive news show that relied on the five-station network for the ...Manager at community radio KBOO-FM in Portland, Ore., resigns
Lynn Fitch, station manager of KBOO-FM in Portland, Ore., has resigned after losing support from the community radio station’s board of directors, ...Susan Farmer, Rhode Island politician and pubTV exec, dies at 71
Susan Farmer, longtime president of Rhode Island’s only pubTV network, died Sept. 16 after a 12-year battle with cancer. She was 71. Farmer ...Robert Larson, “urban missionary” at Detroit Public TV, dies at 83
Robert Larson, a mission-driven public broadcaster who helped pioneer techniques for creating television programs and outreach for underserved communities, died Sept. 13 ...Headlee developing weekly show covering ‘Middle Ground’ between east and west
Celeste Headlee, former co-host of The Takeaway, is launching Middle Ground, a pubradio show concentrating on the vast swath of the country ...Sequestration cuts now figure into APM’s Budget Hero online game
American Public Media has updated its popular online game Budget Hero to reflect the ongoing battle over sequestration cuts in Congress. This fifth ...PRX teams with Center for Investigative Reporting on Reveal series
Public Radio Exchange is adding a new weekly show to its development slate — Reveal, a joint production with the Center for Investigative ...Susan Lacy to exit PBS for HBO; cites funding struggles
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. Susan Lacy, creator and e.p. of American Masters at WNET in New York, is ...Online PBS series takes a deeper look at video games
PBS Digital Studios premiered Game/Show, an online series that considers video games from a cultural perspective, Aug. 27 on its YouTube channel.Out of Africa, Thompkins returns to New Orleans home
After serving a stint as NPR's East Africa correspondent, Gwen Thompkins was ready to head in a different direction. WWNO gave her ...Atlanta jazz station hopes smoother sound catches on
Atlanta’s WCLK-FM, a jazz station licensed to Clark University, aims to double its audience share with a new approach to programming music ...Mobile use accelerating among public radio listeners in PRTS5
Public radio listeners increasingly like music and news to go, according to findings of the fifth annual Public Radio Technology Survey (PRTS5), ...
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