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Kerger suggests viewers contact NEA “if they have issues with the focus of their funding”
In an article in the Deseret News, PBS President Paula Kerger advises viewers to reach out to the National Endowment for the Arts to ...‘Car Talk’ guys retire, but archive editions of shows will continue indefinitely
NPR announced Friday that Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the popular and long-running Car Talk, will lay down their wrenches and stop recording ...Fred Rogers goes viral with “Garden of Your Mind” video remix
An Auto-Tuned video of the late PBS icon Fred Rogers is going viral, with more than 700,000 views as of Friday (June 8) ...“Live from Lincoln Center” creator retiring after more than 30 years
John Goberman, who created Live From Lincoln Center more than three decades ago, is departing as executive producer on June 30 after more than ...“Click and Clack” announce retirement
The hosts of Car Talk, the popular pubradio show celebrating its 25th season this fall, are retiring, they announced to listeners today (June 8). ...Vince Gardino bound for orchestra post after NY Public Radio departure in July
Vince Gardino, New York Public Radio’s executive director of underwriting, is departing the station after 14 years to become executive director of ...Extolling public TV’s mission with an edge
I love standing on a stage — especially in the American heartland — and saying to 500 public television supporters, “Fear is ...New Jersey’s pubradio operators step up coverage of Garden State
Nearly a year ago, two of the East Coast’s largest metropolitan pubcasting powerhouses took over nine New Jersey pubradio stations, casting uncertainty ...Needed: courage to shape digital video future
"Today I want to lay out a vision for how we can invent our future, a future where public television is serving ...NBC, noncom reporting relationships “still in infancy” but producing stories
The collaborations between several NBC owned-and-operated stations and nonprofit news enterprises, part of Comcast’s deal to takeover NBC-Universal (Current, Jan. 17), are generating ...Alliance with pubTV boosts Rhode Island PEG
Rhode Island is a proven example of what can happen when public TV and public access media collaborate, but their merger is ...Output: Prop 8 goes down in starry radio docudrama, online cultural essays graduate to videos at ...
On Sunday, June 10, L.A. Theatre Works debuts a radio docudrama about the federal court case that overturned the referendum that banned same-sex marriage in ...Ford backs for-profit newsroom
A recent Ford Foundation grant to the Los Angeles Times highlights the heightened competition pubcasters face for philanthropic dollars in a fast-changing media world. ...Radio Ambulante steers Spanish-language pubradio in new direction
Radio Ambulante, an ambitious monthly radio show and podcast which hopes to revolutionize Spanish-language radio, launched its pilot episode today. Radio Ambulante (which roughly translates to ...In social media metrics, ROI is more than a sum of fans
... Building and maintaining a meaningful social media presence requires a significant investment of time — and it’s not always easy to ...
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