Author: Dru Sefton
Crowd rallies to save pubcasting funding
Some 1,000 marchers gathered on Nov. 3 on Capitol Hill to celebrate the power of public television.Million Puppet March to stream live online
Can’t attend today’s Million Puppet March? No worries, the Washington, D.C., event is being streamed online. There’s also a “global tweet” at ...Verizon secures space on Maryland Public Television tower
Maryland Public Television is getting a new tenant on its broadcast tower: Verizon. That makes four clients leasing space on MPT’s 480-foot ...StoryCorps to archive Historias Latino project at U-Texas library in Austin
StoryCorps’ Historias project will house its archives of more than 2,000 audio recordings within the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at ...NPR announces two executive hires for marketing, strategy
NPR continues reorganization of its executive ranks with two senior hires announced today by President Gary Knell. Emma Carrasco takes over Dec. 3 as ...Two Chicago stations pick up Smiley & West after WBEZ cancels show
The Smiley & West show is being picked up by two Chicago radio outlets, after WBEZ dropped the program due to sagging audience numbers. ...Documentary filmmakers win extension on ‘fair use’ of DVD, streaming video content
The U.S. Copyright Office has renewed an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that allows documentary filmmakers to continue to ...WQED’s unique all-pledge channel surpasses fundraising projection
The all-fundraising content WQED Showcase multicast channel in Pittsburgh has brought in $140,000 in pledges in its first year — that’s $30,000 ...FCC spectrum workshop addresses timing, compensation, repacking, more
The FCC’s first spectrum auction workshop for broadcasters, Oct. 26 at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., covered a wide range of concerns ...Restructuring at WKYU cuts three jobs, merges radio and TV production
Three staff positions — including that of the television station manager — have been cut at WKYU at Western Kentucky University in ...NHPTV’s academic quiz show returns, with new sponsors
Granite State Challenge, the longtime academic quiz show from New Hampshire Public Television, is returning to the airwaves after a yearlong hiatus due to ...MMG honors WFYI’s Wright; elects new board leadership, members
Public television’s Major Market Group has presented its 2012 William Kobin Public Television Leadership Award to Lloyd Wright, president of WFYI Public ...An unusual pubTV marriage: KCET and Link TV
Both partners gain new platforms for their programming and can learn from each other’s distribution, audience engagement and fundraising strategies.Modern midwives speak out in Detroit PTV blog inspired by Call the Midwives
Detroit Public Television has created a blog, Modern Day Midwives, to take an updated look at the nursing services that are the ...Attorneys craft abbreviated advisory for FCC’s spectrum NPRM
Telecom attorneys Scott Flick and Paul Cicelski of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman have pored over the FCC’s massive Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ...
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