Year: 2013
Changes at KPCC: Station closes Sacramento bureau, launches iPad app, keeps hiring
Los Angeles’s KPCC is shuffling news priorities. As LA Observed reports, the station is closing its bureau in the state capital and cutting ...FCC proposes $20,000 fine for Maryland licensee over multiple EEO violations
The Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission is appealing a proposed FCC fine of $20,000 for multiple violations of its Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) rules, reports Broadcasting ...Pubmedia roundup: Downton gets Golden Globes nod, PBS Hawaii sells land
As expected, PBS got a Golden Globe nomination early this morning for Downton Abbey. The Masterpiece megahit got its nod in the Best Television Series ...After 10 years on PBS, Smiley still weathering challenges
Tavis Smiley may be celebrating 10 years on PBS, but that tenure hasn’t been easy. In a Los Angeles Times interview, the talk show ...Savage takes over at WBAA-FM, TPR hires Slocum, Myatt returns to consulting, and more
Mike Savage is the new g.m. at WBAA-FM in West Lafayette, Ind. The 20-year pubradio veteran most recently ran WKCC-FM in Kankakee, ...University board approves St. Louis Public Radio merger with St. Louis Beacon
St. Louis Public Radio and the St. Louis Beacon, a nonprofit news site, merged Dec. 10. The partners have yet to decide how ...Next goal for American Archive: 5,000 more hours of content
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is aiming to add another 5,000 hours of digitally native or previously digitized content to supplement ...CPB Board hears troubling predictions for spectrum auctions and repacking
CPB Board members got an ominous preview Monday of the corporation’s upcoming white paper about spectrum issues in public broadcasting. At a meeting ...Rock, rot and rule: Best Show ends as Tom Scharpling looks to a life beyond WFMU
From WFMU’s tiny studios in Jersey City, N.J., using only rock songs, his own creativity and contributions of guests and callers, Scharpling ...Sloooooooooow TV coming soon to a screen near you
Remember Norwegian Public Television’s marathon broadcasts of five straight hours of knitting and five days of the “action” on a cruise-ship journey? Well, ...Phil Charles, former g.m. of Montana’s KGLT-FM, dies at 65
Phil Charles, retired longtime g.m. of KGLT-FM in Bozeman, Mont., died Nov. 29 of heart failure at his home in Cape May ...PBS partners with UK producers for Nova special on Typhoon Haiyan
PBS and United Kingdom–based Sky Vision Productions are collaborating on a pair of documentaries about Typhoon Haiyan, to air in both countries, ...Guitar allegedly owned by Dylan sets new auction record, thanks to History Detectives
A guitar played by Bob Dylan at his famous Newport Folk Festival appearance in 1965 sold for nearly $1 million Friday, two ...Ninth Circuit sides with FCC, upholds ban on political advertising for pubcasters
A federal appeals court last week upheld a ban on political and public-issue commercials on pubcasting stations, ruling that its removal would ...Break out the biscuits, it’s nearly Downton Abbey time
The publicity onslaught preceding the Jan. 5 premiere of Downton Abbey arrives in New York next week in the form of a tea truck. Variety reports that costumed servers ...
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