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Bob Paquette of WFCR-FM; senior producer, morning host, 55
Bob Paquette, senior news producer and local host of Morning Edition at WFCR-FM in Amherst, Mass., died unexpectedly May 28 of an apparent heart ...Chris Ulanowski, former WRVO news director, 51
Chris Ulanowski, a former news director at WRVO in Oswego, N.Y., died May 30. He was 51. Ulanowski spent 27 years at the ...Jim Sweenie, WQED host, ‘bon vivant, raconteur and wit,’ 76
Jim Sweenie, a four-decade staffer at Pittsburgh’s WQED-FM and host of its Saturday Night Requests, died June 4 after complications from surgery the previous ...George Hall, advocate for educational TV institutions, 82
George Leigh Hall, 82, a public television leader in North Carolina, Illinois and Virginia, died June 5 at a retirement home in ...Stanley Neustadt, advocate for public stations, dies at 87
Stanley S. Neustadt, 87, a longtime communications lawyer for public stations, died May 30 in suburban Virginia. He had lived with Parkinson’s ...Anglophiles may now swoon (again)
Henry Becton, whose employer co-produced a lot of television programs with British broadcasters, is now an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent ...Yeah, we’ve got snobs in public radio, but also a lot of great people with ...
When I first started working in public radio 30-plus years ago, I was a college dropout and my day job was butchering ...NPR loses c.e.o., its third exec swept away by political tornado
One day after denouncing her top fundraiser and nine weeks after asking her news chief to resign, NPR President Vivian Schiller stepped ...Escape of the Grannies
... The two Grannies and their tour group of 14 were, for the moment, safely ensconced in comfortable floating quarters as mobs ...Soon off to war for APTS: new president, Pat Butler
Patrick Butler, public TV’s new chief lobbyist, wrote speeches for President Gerald Ford, was a founder of the Pew Research Center, and ...RTDNA national Murrow Awards for 2009
NPR won four national Edward R. Murrow Awards in latest RTDNA contest honoring excellence in electronic journalism. Top winners among the 14 ...Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards for 2009
Public TV cleaned up at the Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards June 25 PBS and American Public Television, as distributors, had 16 ...Al Rose, 70
Albert E. Rose, former program director of New Jersey Network and later the program distributor who brought nightly British news programs to ...Ralph Lowell Medal and others, May 2010
The primary figures in the histories of the PBS series Frontline and Sesame Street were saluted by PBS CPB Ralph Lowell Medal: Frontline auteur David Fanning received ...APTS Awards for 2009
The Association of Public Television Stations thanked advocates beyond the D.C. Beltway APTS gave its David J. Brugger Grassroots Advocacy Award to Dr. ...
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