Author: Dru Sefton
Harvard and Stanford business schools among partners on NBR-U
Nightly Business Report has entered a content partnership with several top business schools for its new NBR-U initiative. The Miami-based weeknight financial program is ...Nominees for documentary feature Oscar include two films on PBS
Two documentaries on PBS received Academy Award nominations at the 5:30 a.m. Pacific announcement today from Los Angeles. Honored in the documentary ...PRI hires Kathy Merritt as v.p., content strategy and development
Kathy Merritt, senior director of radio program investments at CPB, has accepted a position as vice president, content strategy and development at ...Larry McDaniel, WDET-FM’s ‘Arkansas Traveler,’ dies at 72
Larry McDaniel, known for decades on public radio in Detroit as “The Arkansas Traveler,” died Jan. 4 after a lengthy illness, reports ...Robert Bednarek dies; was deputy chief scientist at CPB
Robert Bednarek, a technology expert at CPB in the early 1980s, has died at age 55 after a battle with cancer, reports ...Aereo, target of lawsuits by broadcasters, to expand nationwide
Aereo, the digital television distributor that grabs and streams over-the-air signals to web-enabled devices, is expanding nationwide, reports Hollywood Reporter. The new technology, backed ...Downton Abbey premiere spikes PBS ratings
The Masterpiece Classic Season 3 premiere of Downton Abbey drew nearly 8 million viewers, a 5.1 household rating, almost doubling those numbers for the first episode ...Four candidates vying for director’s job at Quad Cities PubTV in Illinois
Western Illinois University in Macomb has announced the four candidates for director of its WQPT-TV, Quad Cities Public Television. Interviewing for the ...Edwardian-themed screenings provide jolly good show for Downton fans
To whet local viewers’ appetites for the return of the megahit British drama Downton Abbey this Sunday, more than 100 pubcasting stations across the ...TPT’s Next Avenue partners with cable and online network RLTV for content
Next Avenue — a web-based initiative focusing on Americans over 50 years old from Twin Cities Public Television, American Public Television and ...Two pubcasting deaths include secretary for Carnegie Commission
Two recent deaths of interest to public broadcasters: Hyman Goldin, the executive secretary for the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, which led ...Polly Anderson to lead WUCF TV, new PBS primary station in Orlando
Veteran pubcaster Polly Anderson is leaving the helm of New Mexico PBS to take over leadership of WUCF TV in Orlando, Fla., ...WGBH settles with Justice Department over alleged mishandling of federal grants
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. WGBH has agreed to pay more than $300,000 in a civil settlement ...KCSM-TV in San Mateo goes back on the market
Trustees of the San Mateo Community College District, who dismissed two finalists in November interested in purchasing its KCSM-TV, have reopened the ...This Christmas, relax with a Sebak special: Revenge of the Omelets
The latest nationwide food travelogue from popular Pittsburgh producer Rick Sebak, Breakfast Special 2: Revenge of the Omelets, premieres on PBS common carriage Christmas ...
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