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WVIA leaders plot revival of donated jazz recording label
Possibilities include a jazz show for NPR and PBS stations, and an HD channel dedicated to the musical library.Correction: More than five in Hidden World of Girls
In producing The Hidden World of Girls, the new documentary specials offered during NPR newsmags this month, producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva — ...Opening doors to region’s inner policy circles
The Great Lakes, formed by melting glaciers 10,000 years ago, were ready last week for their close-up. Detroit Public Television, seizing an ...Knell: familiar with dynamics
NPR’s next president already knows how a strong production house can continue to work with pubcasting stations — and also expand its ...For Erbe, accident was a tumble into the unknown
Bonnie Erbe’s life took an ominous turn over Memorial Day weekend, but she doesn’t remember much of what happened. The longtime host ...New channel in Pittsburgh: All-pledge, all the time
WQED has come up with an idea that initially might make some public broadcasters cringe: an entire multichannel fully devoted to fundraising. Yes, ...Mix of local programs gives a pubTV station its ‘secret sauce’
For stations that are revered local institutions with loyal audiences and financial resources, standards for success are higher.Two more feeds syndicate jazz to public radio
Public radio stations shopping for a plug-and-play jazz stream now have double the options to consider, with two newcomers to the field ...Public radio ‘dancing at the edge of change’
There’s some heavy-duty soul-searching going on in public radio. The Public Radio Program Directors conference, Sept. 20–23 in Baltimore, sidelined its usual ...Meet the cub of the tiger of the house that Fred built
It hasn’t been a truly beautiful day in the neighborhood for more than 10 years. Not since Fred Rogers, star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood ...Musicians’ stories join their music in Sound Tracks for PBS
Steve Talbot worked in public TV for more than 20 years before trying his hand as chief fundraiser for one of his ...Not In Our Town: ‘Public media at its best’ seeks civility
A movement against hate crimes called Not In Our Town, spawned by a 1995 documentary on PBS, has come to represent many ...Moyers returns in January with weekly hour
The latest incarnation of Bill Moyers’ distinctive brand of talk programming will be the hourlong, multiplatform Moyers & Company, distributed by American Public Television. ...Pledge Pipeline, 2011-12
Current‘s first Pledge Pipeline previews 36 shows heading to public TV on-air membership drives in December 2011, March 2012 and beyond. Producers and ...PBSd venture and MHz project aim to export public television
Television viewers in Great Britain, the Middle East, Russia and India could soon be watching American public TV shows, if two initiatives ...
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