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New Orleans PDP station WLAE ends PBS membership
WLAE in New Orleans dropped PBS programming as of Aug. 1. General Manager Ron Yager told Current that the decision to forego PBS ...Several pubmedia journalists to join new Al Jazeera America network
Among the new reporters for Al Jazeera America’s 12 U.S. news bureaus are several with public media backgrounds. The New York City–based ...Vigeland discusses life post-Marketplace: ‘It has been terrifying,’ she says in speech
Why did Tess Vigeland leave her Marketplace Money hosting gig back in November 2012? The reasons are complicated, she revealed in a July address ...Pisaneschi moves up to lead Idaho Public Television in August
The next general manager of Idaho Public Television is Ron Pisaneschi, now its director of content. Pisaneschi takes over Aug. 5 from ...WPBT’s Schneider accepts chief operating officer post at WETA
Rick Schneider, president of WPBT in Miami, will take over as executive vice president and chief operating officer at WETA in September, ...Mobile donors want to contribute even more, survey of 20,000 reveals
Nearly 85 percent of donors using mobile devices would like to be able to contribute more money using apps, according to a ...iHeartRadio, personalized service from Clear Channel, picks up APM content
American Public Media content is now available on iHeartRadio, Clear Channel’s customizable digital radio service with more than 1,500 live stations playing ...Indiana pubmedia stations to connect via high-speed fiber network
A state-operated fiber network will soon link all Indiana pubcasters for the first time. Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations (IPBS), a consortium of nine ...Rath goes from Frontline to WATC, Zuckerman steps in for Grech at WLRN in Miami, and more ...
Frontline's Arun Rath will join NPR in late September as host of Weekend All Things Considered, which is relocating to studios at NPR West in ...Delmarva Public Radio selects Whitehair as general manager
Dana Whitehair arrives this week as the new general manager for financially struggling Delmarva Public Radio in Salisbury, Md., whose licensee will ...Revived Foyle’s War mysteries bring 1940’s Cold War intrigue to PBS
In a new three-part Foyle's War series on Masterpiece Mystery!, Chief Detective Superintendent Christopher Foyle comes out of retirement to work in the intelligence community, not ...Mr. Selfridge is back in business for second season on Masterpiece
Masterpiece announced today that Mr. Selfridge will return for a second season. The drama, starring Jeremy Piven as the American entrepreneur who founded Selfridge’s department ...WLRN in Miami promotes Zuckerman to interim news director
Alicia Zuckerman, senior editor for enterprise reporting at WLRN, will fill in as interim news director while the Miami pubcaster searches for ...PBS scores 25 Emmy nominations for primetime programming
Primetime Emmy nominations are out this morning, and PBS scored 25 nods from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences — 12 ...BuzzFeed assembles ‘The 22 All-Time Hottest Hunks Of PBS’
What?! No Doc Martin?!
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