Author: Dru Sefton
Oklahoma network requests 50 percent hike in state funding
Dan Schiedel, the new executive director of the Oklahoma pubcasting network, on Monday asked the state legislature for a 50 percent increase ...Longtime OPB engineer Phil Estrada Olvera Jr. dies at 55
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. Felipe “Phil” Estrada Olvera Jr., a former interim vice president of engineering at ...Stanley Karnow dies; his Vietnam: A History became 13-hour PBS series
This article has been updated and reposted with additional information. Stanley Karnow, whose book Vietnam: A History became the basis of the critically acclaimed ...Coalition of broadcasters that want to sell spectrum file comments with FCC
The Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition, a group of 39 broadcasters willing to sell spectrum rights, filed comments with the FCC on ...Foundation grant provides Colorado Public Radio with arts news bureau and site
Colorado Public Radio is adding an arts news bureau and online arts hub, using a $900,000 grant from Denver’s Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. Max ...GPB senior producer quits to protest station hiring of former state legislator
Ashlie Wilson Pendley, a senior producer at Georgia Public Broadcasting, has resigned to protest the station’s decision in December to hire a ...Check Please! host leaving WTTW to run her own restaurant
The host of WTTW’s popular restaurant review Check Please! series, which spawned several local versions across the pubcasting system, is departing after 10 years. ...Emily Squires, Emmy winner for Sesame Street
Emily Squires, who worked on the first regularly scheduled public television series as well as Sesame Street and Between the Lions, died Nov. 21 at Mount ...Pre-bid meeting for latest proposed sale of KCSM-TV includes Independent Public Media
A list of attendees at the Jan. 15 pre-bid meeting for KCSM-TV in San Mateo, Calif., reveals only one public broadcasting-related entity ...Wendell D. Garrett, Roadshow appraiser
Wendell D. Garrett, an appraiser on Antiques Roadshow since 1997, died Nov. 14 at a hospice facility in Williston, Vt. He was 83. In ...Huell Howser, California public TV host
Folksy public TV personality Huell Howser, who chronicled California’s unique people and places while retaining his dulcet Tennessee twang, died Jan. 6 ...Charles Scruggs, ‘Mr. Chuck’ on WKNO in Memphis, dies at 80
Charles Scruggs, known to Memphis children as “Mr. Chuck” on WKNO Public Television for more than a decade, died Jan. 18, reports ...Connecticut pubcaster to provide workforce training for vets with $125K grant
Newman’s Own Foundation, established by actor Paul Newman, has provided the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network with a $125,000 grant to provide workforce ...Southern California Public Radio employees vote to join SAG-AFTRA
Staffers at Southern California Public Radio in Pasadena, Calif., have voted to join Hollywood’s largest union, SAG-AFTRA, according to the station. The ...Former state senator will earn $150K in GPB job, more than governor’s salary
Former Georgia state Sen. Chip Rogers, a controversial figure recently hired by Georgia Public Broadcasting at the recommendation of Gov. Nathan Deal, ...
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