Author: Dru Sefton
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 ...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, ...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 ...FCC to delay broadcast spectrum auctions to mid-2015
FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced today that the agency is shifting broadcast spectrum auctions from 2014 to 2015. In a blog post, Wheeler ...SiriusXM picking up WGBH’s Innovation Hub
Innovation Hub, WGBH-FM’s weekly hourlong dive into big ideas and innovative technologies, goes national Saturday on SiriusXM’s public-radio content channel, XMPR. The program, distributed ...Late WVTF music director’s family sues over his 2011 death
The children of Seth Williamson, a longtime music director and host at pubradio WVTF in Roanoke, Va., have filed a lawsuit against ...There’s Large trouble ahead on Doc Martin
Ian McNeice, the actor who plays rotund plumber-turned-restaurateur Bert Large, and Joe Absolom, cast as his lanky son Al, dropped some ominous ...FCC details plans for moving ahead on LPFM applications
The FCC announced Tuesday details of its plan for working through the more than 2,800 low-power FM (LPFM) applications that it received during ...Knight and Ford donate $500,000 to reporting projects in Detroit and Michigan
Detroit may have filed for bankruptcy, but public-service reporting efforts there and in Michigan just got a big boost. The Knight Foundation and ...NEA’s Alyce Myatt returns to private sector next month
Alyce Myatt, media arts director for the National Endowment for the Arts and a former PBS executive, is leaving the NEA next ...Ruling reinforces advertising ban on pubcasting airwaves
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a constitutional ban on political advertising on public television and radio stations, Reuters reports. The 9th ...FCC Chair Wheeler advocates for public TV stations to sell spectrum
The new chair of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, is urging public broadcasters to sell their television bandwidth in upcoming spectrum auctions, reports ...Historic folk-song collection inspires film, live broadcast on Mountain Lake PBS
Mountain Lake PBS will air a special live broadcast Dec. 6 to introduce the public to a rare collection of folk songs ...More than $1 million in grants goes to KET for early-childhood online learning resources
Kentucky Educational Television’s Everyday Learning Collaborative today received more than $1.14 million in grants from the Louisville-based James Graham Brown Foundation and ...OETA Foundation selects WPBT’s Jackson as next president
Daphne Dowdy Jackson, v.p. of development and marketing at WPBT in Miami, moves in January to assume leadership of the OETA Foundation, ...
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