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CPB Board member Ernest Wilson now a dean
Ernest James Wilson III, a CPB Board member, was named dean of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication on ...And the Webby Award nominees include
Register and vote by April 27 for the annual Webby People’s Voice Awards. Nominees connected with public TV and radio include: PBS Kids ...Post account of Burns’ meeting with Latino activists refuted
Ken Burns and PBS executives met yesterday with leaders of the “Defend the Honor” campaign to discuss the filmmakers’ plans to collaborate ...Radio manager Ray Dilley dies
Ray Dilley, 67, manager of the Nebraska Radio Network, founding manager of Vermont Public Radio and developer of NPR Worldwide, died over ...IMA backs Google’s web performance metrics
Integrated Media Association has proposed that public radio’s web operations use Google Analytics as their standard system for measuring website usage. To ...Galan to collaborate with Burns on “The War”
Hector Galan, an Austin-based filmmaker and TV producer, will collaborate with Ken Burns in producing segments on Native and Hispanic American veterans’ ...Critic sees capitulation in PBS decision
By bowing to pressure from Latino activists seeking changes to The War, PBS and filmmaker Ken Burns set a “lousy precedent,” writes ...Copyright judges reject webcaster appeals
The Copyright Royalty Board yesterday rejected all requests from webcasters that it reconsider the new fee structure for Internet radio it announced ...NPR expects to move HQ in 2011
NPR has outgrown its office space in Washington, D.C., and plans to move to larger quarters in 2011, the Washington Post reported today (second ...Unedited version of Crossroads soldier stories available
WETA, which oversaw production of the America at a Crossroads series, will make an uncensored version of one of the films, Operation ...HearVox News: Community Broadcasters Agenda: revised
Check out this spoof revised agenda for this week’s Community Broadcasters Conference: “0815-1000: Case Studies in New Facilities and how building would ...The Making of a Personality, Chapter XIII
Tucker Carlson, briefly host of a PBS talk show between his gigs on CNN and MSNBC, will host a game show pilot ...PlaybillArts: News: WNYC Launches Capital Campaign With Largest-Ever Gift to Public Radio Station
New York’s WNYC-AM/FM has received a $6 million contribution from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, the largest gift ever given to a ...FCC sets date for NCE filing window
The FCC announced last week that it will open a filing window for noncommercial educational FM stations Oct. 12 (PDF). The window ...WBEZ’s sister station, “:Vocalo”
WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio’s hitherto Secret Radio Project, intended to attract a distinct new audience, has gone public with the name of its ...
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