Author: Steve Behrens
Citizen groups file FOIA request for CPB documents
Citing the Freedom of Information Act, three citizen watchdog groups petitioned CPB President Pat Harrison Nov. 21, 2005, to release certain documents ...Julia Child quenched our hunger for learning — and living
In the days before her 92nd birthday, Julia Child had been suffering kidney failure, according to her niece, Philadelphia Cousins. On Thursday, ...As cume slips, duo aims to keep PBS ‘relevant’
For the past four years under PBS President Pat Mitchell, the network has had two chief program executives: at headquarters in Alexandria, ...Did CPB reallocate money illegally to create the Future Funds?
Under the spending formula imposed on CPB by Congress in 1981, does the corporation have the authority to spend some of the ...Fellows seriously injured in rush-hour accident
James A. Fellows, a longtime leader in public TV, remained in critical but stable condition last week after being hit by a ...CPB will focus on three initiatives to assist public TV
Wielding a grim financial analysis of public TV by a big-name consulting firm, CPB has begun a campaign to glue together a ...Autonomy, mutual benefit seen by new N.Y. partners
Now they’re sister stations WNET WLIW Cume households* 3.1 mil. 2.1 mil. Annual spending $180 mil. $14 mil. Employees (approx.) 450 80** Members 350,000 < 50,000 *Nielsen cume audiences are for one week in November. **WLIW employees ...Julia Child’s place in the Smithsonian
Julia Child’s kitchen is now in the nation’s attic, the Smithsonian Institution’s history museum on the Mall, inserted into a miscellaneous area ...Live Wisconsin nest cam captures eagles’ life, death, flight
The live feed from an eagle nest in northern Wisconsin occupied Milwaukee PTV’s digital Channel 10-5 starting in April.Bond market expected to help with pubcasting expansion
The bond market is offering new capital financing options for public broadcasting this week with the expected sale of $6.5 million in ...Award honors not only a leader but a philosophy of service
With this year’s Edward R. Murrow Award, CPB not only honored Richard H. Madden as key leader in public radio, but also affirmed ...Bill Siemering reflects on launching ‘ATC’, lessons from international radio work
"In the beginning, we were really not political radicals. But we were radicals for the medium of radio."A 20th anniversary letter from the editor
Twenty years is an anniversary round enough to permit us at Current to indulge in some hoorah, and to recognize the people who ...Stars of ‘From the Top’ are teen musicians playing from the heart
Seventy stations are trying pilots of the hourlong weekly showcase featuring teenaged classical musicians.Congress reacts hotly to station donor-list swaps with Democrats
Suddenly, pubcasting is in for a severe talking-to, if not a whupping. The House subcommittee that held such a congenial hearing on ...
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