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TAL’s Alex Blumberg plans for-profit podcast network
Blumberg, e.p. of This American Life and co-host of Planet Money, envisions a sustainable future for narrative audio journalism.WETA to create subsidiary for transfer of PBS NewsHour ownership
WETA’s board of trustees unanimously authorized the transfer, which does not involve any cash, at a June 17 meeting in Arlington, Va.Web videos from WVPB connect careers and education for middle-schoolers
WVPB-TV is returning to its roots as the Educational Broadcasting Authority of West Virginia as it shifts production priorities from local programming ...Five New York pubcasters team up for CPB-backed regional newsroom
Five public media stations in New York will create a regional newsroom with a $375,000 grant from CPB, announced today. The two-year backing will support ...Pubcasters pick up 32 national Murrow Awards
Public broadcasting outlets and nonprofit news organizations took 32 of the 98 national Edward R. Murrow Awards presented this year by the ...With TV Takeover, TPT hands over broadcast keys to local arts groups
To attract young viewers, Twin Cities Public Television is experimenting with a new kind of show: the “TV party.”WGBH-FM clears more airtime for Boston Public Radio
In a move to bolster its local news footprint and audience, Boston’s WGBH is adding a third hour to Boston Public Radio, which in April ...Indie podcast network Mule Radio shuts its doors
Self-distributed public radio programs are among the podcasts finding new online homes after the network decided not to continue its business.CPB backs new episodes of Hinojosa’s America By The Numbers
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting awarded an $850,000 grant for eight new half-hour episodes of America By The Numbers, a series featuring journalist Maria Hinojosa ...Pubradio news stations join iTunes Radio lineup
Expanding NPR’s footprint as the first news provider on Apple’s iTunes Radio, 42 member stations join the lineup today. iTunes Radio, which ...This American Life departure highlights competitive challenge for pubradio satellite system
The expanding portfolio of Public Radio Exchange, the Internet-based distribution platform, has prompted some public radio insiders to question whether NPR’s Public ...University delays launch of GPB Radio service on Atlanta’s WRAS-FM
A channel-sharing agreement between Georgia Public Broadcasting and Georgia State University’s student-run radio station WRAS-FM that had been set to start last ...Kickstarter propels Reading Rainbow partnership into digital future
LeVar Burton’s Kickstarter campaign to fund a digital rebirth of Reading Rainbow promises to reconnect classrooms with the pubTV brand and may inspire a ...A year in, NPR’s Code Switch still figuring out commenting
In their efforts to foster a productive dialogue with readers, the race and culture blog's editors have turned their comments section into ...Pesca — and his opinions — find forum in Slate podcast
Mike Pesca has the next hit public radio show, and it’s not on public radio. That’s a problem.
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