Programs/Content
Rock, rot and rule: Best Show ends as Tom Scharpling looks to a life beyond WFMU
From WFMU’s tiny studios in Jersey City, N.J., using only rock songs, his own creativity and contributions of guests and callers, Scharpling ...There’s Large trouble ahead on Doc Martin
Ian McNeice, the actor who plays rotund plumber-turned-restaurateur Bert Large, and Joe Absolom, cast as his lanky son Al, dropped some ominous ...Follow Planet Money’s Kickstarted T-shirt odyssey
The cotton T-shirt, a public radio merchandising staple, is front-and-center in a new multimedia project from NPR's economics reporting unit Planet Money.Revised CPB policy could lead to ‘significant’ penalties for noncompliance
As more local pubcasters fall out of compliance with CPB’s rules for transparency and open meetings, they put themselves at risk of ...Historic folk-song collection inspires film, live broadcast on Mountain Lake PBS
Mountain Lake PBS will air a special live broadcast Dec. 6 to introduce the public to a rare collection of folk songs ...Film revisits Freedom Summer for a new generation
Freedom Summer, a documentary directed by Stanley Nelson, recounts the turbulent 10-week period, focusing on efforts by the Council of Federated Organizations ...Comedian Dave Hill will move into Best Show slot on WFMU
New Jersey–based freeform community radio station WFMU will replace The Best Show on WFMU in January with a program hosted by comedian ...Current’s annual survey of productions in the works for public TV
Pipeline 2014, Current’s latest preview of programs planned for future seasons on public TV, details more than 100 shows offered for broadcast by ...Localore project Black Gold Boom gets funding for 2014 documentary, transmedia work
The grant will fund a film focusing mainly on the oil boom's effects on Native tribes.Here & Now plans special ‘live coverage’ of Kennedy assassination 50th anniversary
Like many Americans of a certain age, WBUR producer Alex Ashlock remembers key details of Nov. 22, 1963, the day when President ...St. Louis culinary magazine hits pubmedia airwaves on Feast TV
Nine Network in St. Louis is partnering with the local Feast Magazine on Feast TV, a unique culinary show. Filmed in Producer Catherine Neville’s home kitchen, ...Displaced Vineyard station mounts noncommercial comeback bid
MVY, the commercial music station on Martha’s Vineyard that lost its flagship frequency 92.7 MHz in February, plans to return to the ...Diversified revenues are key to sustainability, Knight study finds
Nonprofit news organizations have made significant progress in developing healthy and sustainable revenue streams, according to a recent study by the Knight ...Moyers reverses decision to end show, which goes to 30 minutes in January
BOSTON — Bill Moyers, the journalist and veteran PBS personality who has come out of retirement at least twice to mount new ...CPB to support more collaborative journalism projects
CPB will devote $2.5 million to reporting projects spearheaded by stations and national producers, President Patricia Harrison announced Nov. 12 at the ...
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