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Bresnahan one of three finalists for top job at KBTC-TV
Moss Bresnahan, former president of KCTS in Seattle, is one of three finalists for the position of executive director and general manager ...Research notes dropoff in use of educational media content as kids age
A new study from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center finds that while 2- to 4-year-olds spend 78 percent of their screen-media time ...Sreenivasan and Fanning appear on two late-night talk shows
Two high-profile public broadcasting personalities recently landed on late-night television. In case you missed their appearances, here is PBS NewsHour‘s Hari Sreenivasan on The Daily Show, ...NPR names new v.p. for member partnership
NPR has promoted Gemma Hooley to v.p. for member partnership, succeeding Joyce MacDonald, who has been assigned new responsibilities in sponsorship and ...AIR, PRNDI release freelance pay guidelines for pubradio stations
The Association of Independents in Radio and Public Radio News Directors Inc. have published guidelines to assist freelance reporters in negotiating pay ...Congress passes omnibus spending bill, secures $445M for CPB
A government-wide spending bill containing more than $1 trillion in appropriations, including $445 million for CPB through fiscal year 2016, passed the ...Aereo set to launch in Cincinnati
Even as it prepares to defend itself before the U.S. Supreme Court, online TV service Aereo Inc. continues to roll out in ...Oscar-nominated documentaries to air on POV
The Act of Killing and Cutie and the Boxer are heading toward air on the public television documentary showcase.PBS launches new Cyberchase app, and more news in pubmedia programming
PBS has created its latest augmented-reality app, this one based on the television math series Cyberchase. The development of Cyberchase Shape Quest was ...PBS member KMBH seeks operating agreement with commercial broadcaster
The operator of KMBH-TV in Harlingen, Texas, announced Tuesday that it will pursue a local management agreement (LMA) with a commercial entity as part ...MacArthur Foundation grants $2 million to documentary projects
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced today $2 million in new grants to 18 documentary film projects, including some ...Curious City expands beyond Chicago with WYSO Curious
A localized version of Curious City, the Localore-backed participatory journalism initiative that assigns reporters to research questions submitted by listeners, launched at ...Second member resigns from Vermont PTV board
A second member of the Vermont Public Television board has resigned. VPT remains under investigation by the CPB Inspector General’s office after ...Brand’s new KCRW show has name, launch date
Former KPCC host Madeleine Brand’s new show on competitor KCRW in Los Angeles now has a name and launch date, according to ...Complaint alleges Vermont PTV ignored open-meeting rule
The CPB Inspector General’s office is investigating an anonymous complaint that Vermont Public Television violated CPB’s open-meeting requirements, reports WPTZ, the local ...
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