Author: Dru Sefton
Attorneys for former APT exec director Pizzato file suit against Alabama ETV Commission
Current has learned that attorneys for Allan Pizzato, the former head of Alabama Public Television, have filed a civil suit against the Alabama ...Willard out, Walberg in as Market Warriors host
Current has just learned that, effective immediately, Fred Willard no longer will be involved with the Market Warriors series, according to Jeanne Hopkins, spokesperson for ...House Labor HHS proposal would slash pubcasting funding, zero it out in FY15
A Republican House Appropriations Committee funding bill heading for subcommittee mark up Wednesday (July 18) contains deep cuts in federal support for ...PBS discount plan a ‘no-brainer’ for WLVT
The public TV station serving eastern Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley recently decided that the best way to survive as an independent station was ...Ten stations below CPB grants criteria
At least 10 public television stations could be at risk of losing vital CPB community service grants this fiscal year and next ...WMFE-TV sells for $3.3 million to University of Central Florida
WMFE-TV in Orlando, Fla., the former PBS flagship that had been set for sale to religious broadcasters, has a new buyer. The ...Alabama firings expose rift over public TV’s mission, editorial standards
It’s not clear what objectives the political appointees of the Alabama Educational Television Commission had in mind when they came out of ...Multicasts tailored to local priorities
Bolstered by ratings data on their digital multicast channels and years of experience in managing them, public TV station programmers in many ...GMs take up PBS plan to expand web video output
Three dozen general managers have coalesced around a proposal by PBS Interactive chief Jason Seiken to jump-start low-cost local video production at ...Treaty puts indie films in Monday slot
Independent Lens and POV, the PBS series at the center of a dispute about public TV’s commitment to independent film, are moving to Monday nights, ...APTS combats latest bids to defund CPB
Two of pubcasting’s chief critics on Capitol Hill have revived their bids to end CPB funding. Republican lawmakers Rep. Doug Lamborn (Colo.) ...WMFE rebuffs Independent Public Media bid for Orlando channel
Leaders of Orlando’s WMFE rebuffed a bid from Independent Public Media to purchase its TV station, which had been slated for sale ...NEA allotted this year’s media aid ‘to present art in new and . . . ...
Soon, listeners will hear celebrities read James Joyce’s entire masterpiece Ulysses via satellite and Internet radio; a New York City theater will use ...Station programmer asks CPB ombudsman to address Dyer pledge content
The issue of spirituality in motivational speaker Wayne Dyer’s pledge programming has resurfaced in the latest CPB ombudsman’s column, after the PBS ...NewsHour‘s Judy Woodruff and former CPB Chair Ernest Wilson III have been elected to the American ...
The academy, an independent policy research center, was founded in 1780 in Cambridge, Mass. Woodruff and Wilson, now dean of the Annenberg ...
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