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$2.5 million in grants will help rural stations complete DTV transition
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced six grants totaling more than $2.5 million Wednesday as part of its Public Television Digital Transition ...WETA receives $1 million for culture, history and public affairs programs
Washington, D.C., philanthropist and financier David M. Rubenstein has established a $1 million fund at WETA in suburban Arlington, Va., for producing ...With Masterpiece sponsorships sold out, PBS adds British sitcom
PBS had lots to crow about during the recent Television Critics Association Press Tour, combined with just enough controversy to keep reporters ...Knight Foundation, INN partner on $1M innovation fund
The Knight Foundation and the Investigative News Network (INN) are teaming up to award $1 million in microgrants for innovation at public ...Al Jazeera America: A news model pubTV should look to emulate
Most nationally distributed public TV series are docile and dull. The system could learn much from the bold, daring AJAM.PBS adds Odd Squad kids show, more films for Makers project
PBS Kids announced today a new live-action math series, Odd Squad, for children 5 to 8 years old. The latest addition to the schedule ...PBS recruiting new development chief
PBS is in "the final stages" of hiring a new executive to improve public TV fundraising efforts at both the local and ...Expanded news team strengthens West Virginia Public Broadcasting response to toxic spill
The network's multiplatform coverage of the crisis led to national media appearances for reporter Ashton Marra.NPR’s Scott Simon to host second pilot of Wonderful Town variety show
NPR is mounting a second pilot performance of Scott Simon’s Wonderful Town, a variety show featuring the Weekend Edition Saturday host. The live taping will take place Jan. 22 at ...Downton giveth — and maybe taketh away — during December pledge
A Downton Abbey pledge show from PBS was the top fundraiser by far for December public television drives, but repeats of the hit Brit ...NPR drives forward with dashboard delivery
Having faced the disruptive threats posed by cassette tapes, CDs, satellite radio and even the iPod, public radio strategists are increasingly looking ...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.
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