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For-profit companies win pieces of edtech grants
PubTV groups that received three big federal Ready to Teach grants are paying substantial sums to for-profit subcontractors, Education Week (registration required) reports in ...Connecting Iowa: KHKE Tower Collapses
The broadcast tower of Iowa Public Radio’s KHKE-FM collapsed recently, falling prey to “an inch-think coating of ice and 30-40 mile per ...Charlotte Observer | 02/24/2007 | The gift of gab: More listeners tune in for talk
Listeners to WFAE-FM in Charlotte, N.C., spend more time with their station than listeners to any other station in the country, reports ...Canines triumph in pledge Pet Wars
In a stunning and suspensefully narrow turn of events, dog owners outpledged cat owners in this year’s Pet Wars event on Montana ...“Selected Shorts” sets sail
A Selected Shorts cruise sets off from Dubai next month, with host Isaiah Sheffer, Morning Edition commentator Frank Deford and several actors on board. Public TV ...“BBC World” outgrows its niche status
In a profile of BBC World anchor Katty Kay, the Washington Post reports that news program’s “niche audience” numbers 1 million ...Be Warriors: Marine recruitment on PBS
The Marines, a Feb. 21 documentary directed by former PBS program exec John Grant, prompted many viewers to write to PBS ...Teams announced for CPB Talent Quest
Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and a trio of prominent women producers called “Launch” will field the two teams competing in CPB’s Talent ...Liroff moves to system strategy post at CPB
David Liroff, the WGBH v.p. who’s already a prominent national voice in system planning, got that job officially this week. CPB hired ...GAO: Toy (etc.) deals “unlikely” source of big money
A newly released report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (79-page PDF, see pages 6-7 and 44-52) found little to support the ...Views on an XM/Sirius merger
Doc Searls shares his thoughts about the possible merger of XM and Sirius: “I don’t care how diverse the programming becomes, it’s ...Radio Station Cries ‘Enough’ — Won’t Quote From Certain News Stories Relying on Unnamed Officials
The news director at KSFR-FM in Santa Fe, N.M., has told his staff not to use nationally published news stories that rely ...Report: FCC can legally regulate broadcast violence
A draft of a long-awaited FCC report suggests that the Congress could ask the commission to regulate broadcast violence without violating the ...Scripting News: WNYC spam
Blogger Dave Winer complains about the spam he’s received since donating to New York’s WNYC. “Of course I have asked to be ...NPR’s social media summit
NPR has convened a meeting of high-profile bloggers and Web 2.0 thinkers in Washington, D.C., this week to discuss the network’s future ...
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