Author: Dru Sefton
Web videos from WVPB connect careers and education for middle-schoolers
WVPB-TV is returning to its roots as the Educational Broadcasting Authority of West Virginia as it shifts production priorities from local programming ...Five New York pubcasters team up for CPB-backed regional newsroom
Five public media stations in New York will create a regional newsroom with a $375,000 grant from CPB, announced today. The two-year backing will support ...Tuesday roundup: Scher leaves KUOW amid programming changes; KCET mulls bandwidth sale
Plus: Voice of San Diego sells sponsored content, and media consultants question NPR's digital strategy.Monday roundup: Joe Bev plays Monty, actress speaks out for public media
Plus: Miles O'Brien writes a harrowing account of his arm amputation, and a WRAS protester makes a pillow.Friday roundup: KCRW breaks ground on new headquarters, Vme adds SuperLatina
Plus: Kickstarter launches a journalism category, and Hillary Clinton faces off with Terry Gross.Thursday roundup: Netflix brings back Magic School Bus, John Moe’s new humor book
• Netflix is reviving the ’90s PBS Kids cartoon The Magic School Bus, commissioning 26 episodes of an revamped series that will join its streaming ...Scher resigns from KUOW-FM, St. Louis pubradio grows by two, and other comings and goings ...
Steve Scher, who has worked at Seattle’s KUOW-FM since 1986, abruptly resigned June 6 to pursue other opportunities.Tuesday roundup: Erbe criticized for ties to anti-immigration group, AxisPhilly to shut down
Plus: Pando once again digs into an instance of pubTV funding transparency.WPBT and WXEL in South Florida reveal merger talks
A proposed merger of two Florida public TV stations would serve a combined market area roughly equivalent to the country’s seventh-largest Nielsen ...CPB, RTL award $2.2 million for public TV school-readiness projects
CPB and Ready to Learn, a U.S. Department of Education program supporting preschool learning, will provide $2.2 million in grants to 21 ...Kickstarter propels Reading Rainbow partnership into digital future
LeVar Burton’s Kickstarter campaign to fund a digital rebirth of Reading Rainbow promises to reconnect classrooms with the pubTV brand and may inspire a ...Thursday roundup: Commercial classical wanes; Jane Seymour to host Detroit PTV show
Plus: radio from a tugboat, and a Reading Rainbow parody.Wednesday roundup: CPB, Ready to Learn provide grants; WKYU oversight shifts
Plus, a voice in support of college radio.Tuesday roundup: FCC reveals spectrum auction details; Angelou doc goes forward
Plus: A TV quiz show hits its 40th year on the air, and Arthur gets a hip-hop treatment.PubTV doc Little League: A History celebrates 75 summers of iconic pastime
A public television documentary about Little League Baseball is turning into a fitting Independence Day scheduling choice for programmers.
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