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Former HiT president to take over leadership of Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop has hired Jeffrey D. Dunn, former CEO of the HiT Entertainment Network, as its new CEO.Plane crash claims lives of two WXXI board members, major donors
Two major donors and board members of Rochester, N.Y., dual licensee WXXI died Sept. 5 after their plane crashed in the ocean ...The time Joan Rivers didn’t become an NPR host
With the death of Joan Rivers, Jay Kernis, former senior v.p. for programming at NPR, shared this remembrance of Rivers on his ...Friends group of Miami’s WLRN fires CEO Victor Kendall
Kendall had been with the organization since June 2012.William Greaves, documentary filmmaker and Black Journal EP, dies at 87
William Greaves, a documentary filmmaker and executive producer and co-host of a pioneering public TV show for African-Americans, died Monday at his ...Roe heads classical institute, Arnold to exit WXPR, and other comings and goings in public ...
Peg Arnold, g.m. of WXPR-FM in Rhinelander, Wis., begins work Sept. 22 as g.m. of Utah Public Radio in Logan.Sherlock adds three Emmys in primetime ceremony
Sherlock: His Last Vow, a BBC production that aired as part of WGBH’s Masterpiece, won three Primetime Emmys at the televised awards ceremony Monday. That brought ...Sherlock, Downton Abbey lead PBS to eight wins in Creative Arts Emmys
Sherlock: His Last Vow won four of the eight Creative Arts Emmys awarded to PBS programs by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ...CPB bumps up two, “Blues Doctor” retires, and more comings and goings in public media
CPB has promoted two executives, Greg Schnirring and Erika Pulley-Hayes.Pubcasters take home 17 NABJ honors, and more awards in public media
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS Public broadcasters received 17 Salute to Excellence Awards from NABJ with NPR, Chicago’s WBEZ and Milwaukee Public Television ...Buffalo’s WNED changes management responsibilities, prompting layoff
WNED in Buffalo, N.Y., is tweaking its management of programming, resulting in one layoff. Gabe DiMaio, who programmed classical WNED-FM, confirmed to Current Thursday ...Russ manages Capital Public Radio News, Paulson steps aside at Interlochen, and more comings and ...
Marianne Russ will oversee some 30 reporters, producers, editors and contributors.Steve Post, iconoclastic wit at WNYC and WBAI, dies at 70
Post joined in WBAI's freeform heyday before hosting Morning Music and The No Show at WNYC.John Seigenthaler, veteran journalist who died last month, also hosted NPT series on books
Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words, a series of interviews with authors, which will continue to air new Seigenthaler-hosted episodes through September.“Steve was my hero”: a remembrance of a radio rebel
Steve Post, legendary New York radio personality for more than 50 years, died Sunday. He was 70 years old. Steve was the ...
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