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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. ...Streamy Awards for 2009
The Secret Life of Scientists, produced by Seftel Productions for WGBH’s Nova unit, won a Streamy The online series on PBS.org was judged the best ...Public Radio News Directors Awards for 2009
Zeleznik tapped for Leo C. Lee Award Maryanne Zeleznik, news director of Cincinnati’s WVXU, received the annual Leo C. Lee Award from ...Norm Craley, 65
Norman S. Craley, a broadcast engineer who worked 35 years at Washington’s WETA, died of cancer March 24 at the Capital Hospice ...George Foster Peabody Awards for 2009
Producers for public broadcasting — and developers for its websites — received 14 Peabody Awards, announced March 31, 2010 Regarding websites, ...Hinojosa & Collins: high hopes for partnership in the cloud
The host of Latino USA for all of its 17 years, Maria Hinojosa, is now its proprietor, too, along with producer Sean Collins, her ...Jim McEachern, 71, NPR’s point man for infrastructure
Jim McEachern, who was the principal technical leader for the Public Radio Satellite System for its first two decades and was a ...PBS: Your source for baseball talent
A few PBSers will return to the action in the National Adult Baseball Association (NABA) league this spring. KCET President Al Jerome ...Purposeful Loni Ding
Loni Ding, 78, a filmmaker who brought issues of Asian American identity to the surface, and to PBS, and helped win legislation ...Gregory Shanley, 49
Longtime public radio journalist Gregory Shanley, 49, a statewide talk host on Iowa Public Radio, died Jan. 26 [2010] in Iowa ...Lillie Herndon, 93
Lillie Edens Herndon, who served on the boards of CPB and PBS, died Dec. 3, 2010, at her home in Columbia, S.C. ...Robben Fleming, 93
Robben Wright Fleming, 93, a former president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and of the University of Michigan, died Jan. 11, ...Robben Fleming, one of CPB’s best presidents, ‘seemed to me the least interested in himself’
David Stewart, one of CPB’s original employees and later a writer and Current contributing editor, sent this letter after the death of Robben ...
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