Author: Steve Behrens
Jazzcasters try music testing to pick cuts
The minority of public radio stations that use listener preference data to choose music is becoming a little less minor as music ...Parenteau resigns Wichita position under staff pressure
One major issue remaining between staff and management is whether KPTS will rehire David Brewer, a 25-year staff member.Fields proposes trust fund but caps size at $1B
Federal appropriations to public broadcasting will end at close of business, Sept. 30, 2000, under the House Republican leadership’s proposal introduced Feb. ...What did Barney earn, and why didn’t PBS get more?
Of all the facts, half-truths and distortions used by public broadcasting's opponents in the ongoing contest to redefine the field's public image, ...At 10, Station Resource Group has more for Tom and Terry to do
You seldom hear that members of an association are voluntarily doubling their dues, but that’s about what the Station Resource Group is ...Ervin Duggan hired from FCC to lead PBS
As PBS’s fourth president, FCC member Ervin S. Duggan, 54, will take the lead of public TV at a time when momentous ...Radio Bilingüe launches 24-hour Latino feed
Public radio last month used an old Ted Turner technique to launch a 24-hour bilingual radio network for Latinos. The superstation in this case ...At reunion, early leaders of public broadcasting express pride about past, concern for future
The man who put New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on the radio, reading the comics during a newspaper strike — M.S. “Morrie” ...‘Tongues Untied’: a debate on purpose and courage
The film wasn't explicitly on the agenda for the first of two open-mike sessions at the Public Television Annual Meeting June 23, ...Ottinger and Kobin: two broadcast managers who stood up for diversity of viewpoints
Two controversies put public TV general managers to the test: How far would they extend their necks for the principle that public ...Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers, Summary of 1972
Nineteen seventy-two saw President Richard Nixon veto funding for public broadcasting. In the wake of Nixon’s veto, Frank Pace Jr. and John ...
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