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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. ...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 ...
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