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Dobson heads NPR’s International Desk, KUED hires content director and other comings and goings in ...
Most recently Will Dobson served as Washington bureau chief for Slate.PBS will decide shortly on another season of ‘Mercy Street’
Online viewers watched 500,000 streams of Mercy Street within a week after its debut.Sesame Ventures collaboration to back children-oriented startups
The nonprofit workshop is partnering with the investment firm Collaborative Fund.Longtime Wichita programmer David Brewer dies at 71
Brewer took a leave of absence in September to battle cancer.Rocky Mountain PBS aiming for $30 million for new headquarters
CEO Doug Price said the project is in “the aspirational phase.”‘NewsHour’ archives to be digitized and available online
Nearly 10,000 episodes that aired from 1975 to 2007 will be archived.Carolina trio brings ‘Reel South’ documentary series to public TV
The program, which premiered this month, already has 71 percent national carriage.Rivero heads museum, Kelly returns to NPR and other comings and goings in public media
Marita Rivero left WGBH in June 2013 after nearly 30 years.Lloyd Kaiser, an ‘early visionary’ in public TV, dies at 88
Kaiser had “an expansive view of the quality that could be achieved by a fledgling organization with a passion to serve,” said ...PBS Winter Press Tour news, from Broadway to outer space
PBS answered a looming question: What will take over Downton Abbey’s Sunday-evening timeslot?Conrad White dies at 80; worked on ‘French Chef’ and other WGBH shows
White spent 15 years at the Boston public broadcaster during the 1960s and ’70s.Fred Rogers Co. gets $2M for ‘Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood’
Rite Aid Foundation underwriting spots will air before and after each episode and online.New Jersey network could relinquish spectrum in upcoming FCC auction
The state's broadcasting authority said it “has no intention of exiting public television.”MacArthur doc grants include public media projects
The 19 grants totaling almost $2.5 million were selected from nearly 500 proposals.Four more university licensees file for FCC spectrum auction, a fifth declines
Stations had to file with the FCC by Jan. 12 to be eligible to participate in the auction.
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