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Kentucky Legislature honors KET founder O. Leonard Press
O. Leonard Press, who founded Kentucky Educational Television in 1968 after lobbying the state legislature for 10 years, has received the 2012 ...KERA lures Fisher after 28 years at TPT, Rockefeller to retire, Check Please! host moves on, and ...
The host of Check, Please!, WTTW’s popular restaurant review series, is departing the Chicago show after 10 years. Alpana Singh plans to devote more ...At 90, pubradio pioneer upholds a literary tradition
Decades ago, Karl Schmidt occupied himself by staging elaborate award-winning works of theater for radio broadcast. At 90, he’s still weaving compelling ...Emily Squires, Emmy winner for Sesame Street
Emily Squires, who worked on the first regularly scheduled public television series as well as Sesame Street and Between the Lions, died Nov. 21 at Mount ...WTTW captures seven Midwest Emmys, Wisconsin Public TV wins a pair
The Chicago station topped several program categories, and its staff took awards for individual achievements in television crafts. Architect Michael Graves: A Grand Tour ...Pubcasters in Austin and Houston capture five Lone Star Emmys
KLRU in Austin won three statuettes, including one in the community service category for “Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project 2012,” a contemporary ...Wendell D. Garrett, Roadshow appraiser
Wendell D. Garrett, an appraiser on Antiques Roadshow since 1997, died Nov. 14 at a hospice facility in Williston, Vt. He was 83. In ...Huell Howser, California public TV host
Folksy public TV personality Huell Howser, who chronicled California’s unique people and places while retaining his dulcet Tennessee twang, died Jan. 6 ...Nine Network of St. Louis recognized as ‘Best of the Best’ in 2012 NETA ...
The St. Louis public TV station’s Nine Academy, a program that trains individuals and community organizations to produce short videos on stories ...Rebecca Eaton and Newton Minow honored for distinguished service to public television
As the executive producer who acquired and managed co-productions of British dramas for Masterpiece and its predecessor titles for more than 26 years, ...NPR decides on hosts, Shuster leaves the network, Rapley gets WGBH McGhee Fellowship, and more ...
Audie Cornish, who guest-hosted ATC during Michele Norris’s 2012 leave of absence, becomes permanent co-host of the NPR newsmag, alongside Robert Siegel ...Hawaii pubcasters remember their ‘champion,’ Sen. Daniel Inouye
Representatives from Hawaii's public broadcasting networks, as well as the national public broadcasting community, recalled Inouye's years of commitment to the mission ...NPR, Frontline cited for 2013 duPont-Columbia Awards
Public media outlets were cited for six 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, announced today by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. NPR ...Bergsma leaves ‘house that Stephanie built,’ Raz moves to TED, NPR bolsters race unit, and more ...
Stephanie Bergsma, the KPBS fundraiser who opened the door for Joan Kroc’s $200 million bequest to NPR, retired Dec. 10 after 30 ...NPR adds two journalists to new race, ethnicity and culture unit
NPR has added two journalists to its six-person race, ethnicity and culture unit backed by CPB and preparing for launch in the ...
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