Author: Dru Sefton
WGBH’s veteran radio/TV head Marita Rivero to depart in June
Marita Rivero, vice president and general manager for radio and television at producing powerhouse WGBH, is stepping down after nearly 30 years ...WJFF manager resigns after public controversy
The top station official at WJFF-FM, community radio in Jeffersonville, N.Y., has resigned following a public protest over his management style, reports ...WGBH’s Accessible Media center waives theater captioning fees
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at WGBH in Boston is permanently waiving license fees for ...Benefits to multicasting pledge: new and lapsed donors respond
After 16 months on the air, WQED-TV’s all-pledge multicast Showcase channel is steadily bringing in donations of around $16,000 a month for ...James Muhammad to take helm at Lakeshore Public Media
The new president and c.e.o. of dual licensee Lakeshore Public Media in Merrillville, Ind., is James Muhammad, currently director of radio services ...‘Impact Playbook’ from BAVC helps track media engagement
The Bay Area Video Coalition, the San Francisco-based group that seeks to inspire social change by empowering media makers, just released a ...PBS FY14 draft budget has $11M content hike, no dues increase, thanks to income influx
PBS’s year-to-date financial results show a net income of $22 million instead of the estimated $100,000 net loss anticipated in its fiscal ...Microsoft mulls dropping Sesame interactive games
Microsoft is considering ending its Sesame Street interactive videogame series, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The newspaper’s Digits blog cites unnamed sources as saying demand ...Aereo prompts two networks to consider dropping over-the-air signals
Upstart television streamer Aereo “quite possibly” could bring down broadcast television, according to Fortune magazine. The service, which sells subscription access to broadcast ...WGBH gets almost $2 million from CPB to develop PBS LearningMedia assets
CPB is granting nearly $2 million to WGBH in Boston to expand middle-school math content available through PBS LearningMedia, pubcasting’s free online ...PubTV manager Pruess lands top spot at WQPT-TV in Moline, Ill.
Veteran pubcaster Mary Pruess, who resigned her position as president and general manager of WNIT-TV in South Bend, Ind., in October 2012, ...And the pubradio brackets winner is . . .
Despite some impressive social-media cheerleading by several worthy competitors, the winner of KPCC’s Public Radio Brackets is This American Life. More than participants 50,000 ...Repacking complications loom following broadcast spectrum auctions
Many broadcasters may be in for “unpleasant repacking surprises” following the FCC’s upcoming spectrum auctions, writes Washington, D.C., telecom lawyer Michael Berg ...Few ‘Magic Moments’ in March pledge
Pledge results reported by public TV stations from recently concluded on-air fundraisers were down 20 percent to 25 percent from the March ...Tough reality for PBS: Roadshow audience doesn’t flow easily into Market Warriors
PBS has ended production of Market Warriors, the Monday-night series that was a lynchpin in its strategy to hold on to viewers of Antiques Roadshow, the ...
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