Month: September 2013
With credits gone, NPR’s off-mike staffers get silent treatment
NPR ended the practice Aug. 30 of crediting the off-mike staff behind the scenes of its newsmagazines, citing evidence that the lists ...Don’t mess with the Met: WFIU reverses course on weekend schedule
An outcry from listeners prompted WFIU-FM in Bloomington, Ind., to announce Aug. 13 that it would restore classical programming to its schedule, ...WTJX in Virgin Islands hires controversial former government official
Marc Biggs, a former U.S. Virgin Islands official convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for government contracts, went to work this week ...Board selects Sukhdeo to run WPBT in Miami
Dolores Sukhdeo is the new president and chief executive officer of WPBT-TV in Miami, the station’s board announced Tuesday. She replaces Rick ...After War disputes, PBS focuses on Latino experience with Latino Americans
As the first major television documentary series to tackle a comprehensive history of U.S. Latinos spanning some 500 years, PBS’s six-hour Latino Americans comes ...Seiken, PBS Digital head, will exit pubcaster for London-based post next month
Jason Seiken, PBS’s innovative head of digital media who exhorted stations to embrace a more videocentric future, will leave the public broadcaster ...PBS Board election goes to tie-breaker, Tomczyk takes on leadership of second station, and more ...
Rich Homberg, president of WTVS in Detroit, was the winner in the first tie ever for a spot on the PBS Board ...Analyst starts new firm, renames another
Public radio analyst John Sutton has established a new research firm and changed the name of his 16-year-old consulting company. Sutton announced Sept. ...Tomczyk heading both WTVP and Illinois Public Media
Chet Tomczyk, president of WTVP in Peoria, Ill., is now serving double-duty as interim general manager of Illinois Public Media in Urbana, ...After 20 years, Latino USA grows to an hour
Latino USA, the longest-running Latino-focused program on radio, expands to an hour beginning Friday. Incoming contributors include Al Madrigal, standup comedian, actor and correspondent ...More Secrets, and asteroids, coming soon to PBS
PBS has commissioned Britain’s Pioneer Productions for a six-part series and a Nova special, reports Televisual, a British-based news site that covers the ...Greater Public, iMA announce merger
Greater Public, formerly DEI, and Integrated Media Association (iMA) announced today that the organizations had merged as of the end of August. Atlanta-based ...Second American Graduate Day to raise dropout awareness nationwide
The second American Graduate Day, a live multiplatform “call to action” event focusing attention on high-school graduation rates, hits public TV airwaves ...Youth Radio looks to highlight more of its content, mission on new website
Youth Radio, the Oakland, Calif.–based media-training center that partners with public radio, launched its new website Aug. 9.Technical hurdles, unknown costs loom in spectrum repacking
As the FCC prepares to reshuffle the layout of the nation’s television spectrum for the repacking process, public broadcasters are girding for ...
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