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KCSM-TV discontinues MHz programming, citing FCC regulations
KCSM-TV in San Mateo, Calif., has dropped international programming from MHz Networks after determining that the programs did not meet legal requirements ...First scripted series from PBS Digital Studios updates Frankenstein for modern age
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — You have to love the irony. The first scripted narrative series from PBS Digital Studios is a modern update ...Fibs, Yiddish and Crosbys: tidbits from PBS’s press tour
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — They don’t make the front page, but the comments and observations of panelists during PBS’s portion of the Television ...VPR turns to audience for stories of addiction and recovery
Motel parking lots and other Vermont locations spawned a radio network's search for personal accounts of drug addiction.NEH awards $2 million to pubmedia projects
Seven public media projects got a boost July 21 with the announcement of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which ...Popularity of ‘Downton’ creates embarrassment of riches in ‘Masterpiece’ slot
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The success of Downton Abbey, whose fifth season has been set for Jan. 4, has created a novel problem for PBS: ...With on-demand streaming, PBS will enable premiere-week bingeing on Burns’s Roosevelts
In a session with TV critics, PBS's Kerger said the streaming experiment will "accommodate a wide range of viewing habits."PBS press tour highlights Downton, Nas on Finding Your Roots
The stars of Downton Abbey aren’t the only luminaries whom journalists will chat with during PBS’s portion of the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour ...BBC cuts hundreds of jobs, increases funding for World Service
The pubcaster is restructuring its news division, with little effect on programs airing on stateside pubmedia.New digital offerings from NPR, PBS promise closer look at how users consume content
New digital offerings from NPR and PBS aim to give public media additional platforms for building online audiences while gaining insights into ...After criticism, NPR gives freer rein to upcoming ombudsman
NPR has stepped back from plans to curtail its ombudsman’s duties after receiving criticism from journalists and leaders of its member stations. The ...Free-speech watchdog awards find new home at WGBH
WGBH News has resurrected the annual Muzzle Awards from the ashes of the Boston Phoenix as a stand-alone website with a podcast tie-in.Final Poirot episodes reach U.S. via on-demand service
Three of the five final episodes in the Hercule Poirot detective series, a longtime favorite on Masterpiece Mystery!, will debut in the U.S. next ...California Arts Council directs state aid to three public media outlets
In the first and potentially only government-backed grant program supporting arts coverage by California’s public media stations, KQED, PBS SoCaL and Radio ...GPB Radio to operate Atlanta’s WRAS without tax-based funding
Georgia Public Broadcasting will fund its new daytime public radio news service on Atlanta’s WRAS through private revenues, not state subsidies, according ...
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