Author: Dru Sefton
FCC votes to begin spectrum-auction process
The five-member FCC today voted unanimously to begin the process of reclaiming broadcast spectrum to auction for wireless broadband use, reports Broadcasting & Cable. ...One Cahill concern during Senate CPB confirmation hearing: Tattoos
In an interview with the Kansas City Star, new CPB Chair and longtime KCUR radio pubcaster Patty Cahill recalls her 2009 Senate confirmation hearing ...Schiedel, g.m. of KRSC-TV, to head Oklahoma network
Veteran public broadcaster Daniel Schiedel will be the new executive director of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, the OETA Board of Directors ...CPB chooses Crawford Media Services to digitize American Archive content
CPB has selected Crawford Media Services in Atlanta to digitize audio and video content for the American Archive. The CPB initiative is ...AETV commissioner accuses Alabama PTV employees of possible perjury
In a meeting Tuesday (Sept. 25), a member of the Alabama Educational Television Commission accused two Alabama Public Television employees of giving ...Madeleine Brand says outside offers lured her from KPCC
Madeleine Brand, who quit KPCC Sept. 21, told Current that “outside offers just became too attractive” for her to remain at the Pasadena ...The Advocates is back, in WGBH’s Open Vault
WGBH is offering a digitized collection of 50 episodes of the early pubTV debate program The Advocates, which initially ran on PBS from 1969 ...Anthony Tiano, longtime KQED president, dies at 71
Anthony Tiano, president of KQED in San Francisco from 1979–93, died Aug. 12 at his home in Albuquerque, N.M. He was 71. At ...Film captures a city in turmoil, recovery
Producers of the documentary As Goes Janesville found themselves, quite by accident, in the midst of three national news stories during filming.Personal stories “are not there anymore” on NPR newsmags, Siemering says
In the conclusion of an interview on Huffington Post, Bill Siemering, a founding father of NPR, talks about how the network now ...David Rakoff, This American Life contributor, dies at 47
Humorist and essayist David Rakoff, a regular contributor to Public Radio International’s This American Life since the program’s inception, died Aug. 9 after a ...Ken Messer, former g.m. of Yakima’s KYVE-TV, dies at 70
Ken Messer, who served as general manager of PBS affiliate KYVE in Yakima, Wash., from March 2008 through his retirement in June, ...Fifth full-power station coming from MontanaPBS
MontanaPBS will launch a fifth full-power station in the state this fall, according to KUSM-TV General Manager Eric Hyyppa. KUKL-TV will offer ...Roger Fisher, creator of The Advocates on pubTV, dies at 90
Roger Fisher, a Harvard law professor who developed the Emmy-and Peabody Award–winning public TV program The Advocates, died Aug. 25 in Hanover, N.H. He ...Jerry Nelson, voice of Count von Count on Sesame Street, dies at 78
The man behind Sesame Street’s Count von Count, Jerry Nelson, died Aug. 23 at age 78. Nelson, who worked with Muppets creator Jim Henson ...
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