Programs/Content
Supreme Court to decide fate of Aereo’s Internet broadcasting service
Television broadcasters, commercial and noncommercial, succeeded in securing a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court in their bid to strike down Aereo, ...Stations’ concerns prompt Metropolitan Opera to sanitize airing of Die Fledermaus
The Metropolitan Opera agreed to tone down indecent language in its Jan. 11 broadcast after radio station leaders warned that they would ...New partnership fuels Al Letson’s collaborative work on State of the Re:Union
Letson, the performance artist and playwright behind SOTRU, begins 2014 with a new production partner, renewed funding and ambitions to take his show ...NPRchives project revisits sounds of 1984
NPR is dipping into its vaults for a new social media project that highlights reports from its archives.Chevy’s upcoming in-dash app selection to include NPR
General Motors announced Monday that the NPR News app will be featured in the inaugural suite of in-car apps the automaker has ...Station screenings, promo barrage prep fans for Downton debut
The Downton Abbey blitz is on, from festive station events to huge digital ads behind the famous New Year’s Eve countdown ball in Times ...Web series explores what Black Folk Don’t do
Doing yoga, going green and enjoying winter sports sound like innocuous topics for a public media web series — that is, until ...Omidyar and Greenwald’s new journalism venture will be incorporated nonprofit
First Look Media, a new journalism organization backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and headed by former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, will include a 501(c)3 ...LPB content grants go to nine programs, including two web series
Latino Public Broadcasting announced today that it is backing nine programs through its Public Media Content Fund, which supports Latino-themed content for ...CPB grants $1.4M to new Local Journalism Center focusing on energy
CPB will award $1.4 million to seven public radio and TV stations for the creation of a new Local Journalism Center covering ...Seventeen stations win grants from POV for outreach on education docs
One of the films, Brooklyn Castle, looks at a junior-high chess squad that has won more than 30 national championships, more than any other ...Producers take podcast covering marketing innovations to pubradio distribution
Ad man and podcaster Mike O’Toole has teamed up with veteran pubradio producer Jim Russell to adapt a narrative-focused business podcast into ...Flatow finds more traction for ‘Science Friday’ in PRI distribution
After two decades as a weekly NPR program, the 22-year-old Science Friday is preparing to shake things up. With its move to Public Radio ...Grants, donations to NPR support expanded reporting, app for personalized listening
NPR has lined up $17 million in grants and individual gifts to expand two beat-reporting units and to complete development of an ...Pubmedia stations, initiatives on list of latest Art Works grants from NEA
Alabama Public Television, WHYY, Transom.org and New York Public Radio are among the grantees.
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