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Michael Moore on TOTN in audio, video and web
When Lynn Neary interviewed filmmaker Michael Moore on Monday’s Talk of the Nation, NPR Internet strategist Andy Carvin shot the interview on ...V-me at La Raza
V-me, the Spanish-language multicast channel launched in February in parternship with public television (WNET New York), is broadcasting this weekend from the ...MPR/APM in talks to buy D.C. station
American Public Media Group, parent of Minnesota Public Radio, is negotiating to buy WGTS-FM, a noncommercial station in the Washington, D.C., area, ...News Emmys
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced nominees for the news and documentary Emmy Awards today in New York. Public ...PBS press tour notes
PBS announced that Ken Burns now has a place of his own in Apple’s iTunes online media store. Viewers can buy ...Burns adds new material at ends of “The War” episodes
Ken Burns told TV critics yesterday that 28 minutes of footage about Hispanic and Native American soldiers is being added to The ...Talent Quest names Round 3 contestants
The results from Round 2 of the Public Radio Talent Quest were announced yesterday. Three finalists eliminated from the competition were Bee ...PBS Ombudsman: fireworks, debates and Moyers
In a recent column, PBS ombudsman Michael Getler says his mailbag was slammed with letters from disconcerted viewers on the eve of ...Talent Quest finalists need your votes
Round 2 voting on the Public Radio Talent Quest finalists ends tomorrow, July 10, at midnight Eastern time. Online votes and assessments ...Albany’s “hip classical” station goes Triple A
“What we are looking at is really being an old-style, progressive rock station,” said Chris Wienk, WMHT radio v.p., describing the format ...Does she have a date with a Python?
Is this a scam? Not long ago a young woman knocked on a family’s door in western New York state and asked ...Talk host considers running for Senate
Jeff Golden, a talk host on southern Oregon’s Jefferson Public Radio, said yesterday that he’ll leave the air while considering whether to ...Open Source disbands
Yesterday’s Open Source was the last from the webcentric pubradio talk show, which went “on a summer hiatus” and is disbanding its staff, wrote ...Wall Street doubts Sirius-XM merger
Low stock prices for Sirius Satellite Radio indicate Wall Street is doubting the company will merge with its competitor, XM, Bloomberg News ...
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