Programs/Content
Pipeline 2012
This year's Pipeline survey found projects planned, begun or completed about Francis Scott Key and Phil Ochs ... religious pilgrims and itinerant ...Closing of news bureau leaves regrets, questions
There was no shortage of ideas for keeping Capitol News Connection afloat. CNC’s stock in trade was chasing down politicians for local legislators’ ...APM acquires Knight-nurtured Spot.us crowdfunding site
Minnesota-based American Public Media announced Nov. 29 the future cohabitation of two new-media tools for use by public media newsrooms. APM’s Public ...PRX gets some fuel to incubate public-media journalism tools
With $2.5 million from the Knight Foundation, Public Radio Exchange will rev up a new Public Media Accelerator next year to assist ...Colorado net assigns idle AM to Triple A duty in Denver
Colorado Public Radio has found a new use for the spare AM frequency that it couldn’t sell. OpenAir 1340 took to the ...A second state news feed arises from Florida funding rift
A dispute over state funding of Florida pubcasters has prompted Miami’s WLRN to create a new system for sharing news stories among pubradio ...After a hard year, NBR investor brings in new management
Rick Ray considered purchasing public TV’s Nightly Business Report earlier this year but last week ended up as its new c.e.o. instead. Atalaya Capital ...Finding bright spots: cloning what works in local pubTV programs
For more than 25 years, we have been studying public television stations and programming, and for all those years we sat on ...Norman Corwin, auteur of radio’s golden years, 101
Norman Corwin, a radio writer and producer whose pioneering programs made him one of the most renowned creators of shows during radio’s ...Market Wars, companion for Roadshow, is coming to PBS
PubTV programmers heard welcome details of a long-awaited spinoff of the hit Antiques Roadshow at the National Educational Telecommunications Association Conference in Kansas City, ...Back below the hills of Tennessee
The television version of Bluegrass Underground, now distributed in high-def and Surround Sound by PBS Plus, permits the audience to appreciate more vividly the ...Simeone to stay on as “World of Opera” host, WDAV to distribute show
NPR is dropping distribution of World of Opera as of Nov. 11. The new distributor will be WDAV Classical Public Radio in Charlotte, N.C., ...Simeone’s activism prompts inquiry into ethical standards for pubradio freelancers
Public radio is once again struggling to define the line between on-air talent who report as ethically bound journalists and those personalities ...Preschoolers get 40-plus (count ’em!) new PBS Kids math games
PBS Kids unveiled last week its largest offering of math-skill games for preschoolers — a cache of 40 games that can be ...Democracy Now! claims vindication in arrests settlement
Producers of the progressive pubradio/TV news program Democracy Now! are receiving $100,000 to settle their federal lawsuit against police authorities over their arrests while ...
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