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USC to purchase KCNL for $7.5M to add to Classical Radio Nework
The University of Southern California is buying San Jose-area commercial radio station KCNL for $7.5 million to add to its Classical Public ...Three pubmedia series win IRE honors
“On Shaky Ground,” a collaborative news report from nonprofit news organization California Watch and KQED in San Francisco, has won an IRE ...Concussions report by ex-“Dateline” newsman Stone Phillips to air on “NewsHour”
PBS NewsHour will air a segment tonight (April 2) on concussions in youth football that former Dateline NBC correspondent Stone Phillips had reported and posted on ...Labor dispute, financial losses at Pacifica prompt director’s plea for truce
Pacifica Radio’s listener support is down almost 25 percent since 2006, and stations KPFA, WBAI and WPFW “have been running seriously in ...Three longtime staffers retiring from Illinois Public Media
Three talk-show staffers at WILL-AM in Urbana, Ill., are retiring, Illinois Public Media said on its website. Departing will be David Inge, ...Story of the OPB presidential primary debate that wasn’t to be
Now on current.org, a behind-the-scenes look at the work at Oregon Public Broadcasting in the months leading up to its scheduled national ...Kartemquin establishing liaison group to advocate for indie filmmakers with PBS
Kartemquin Films is beginning work to form a permanent advocacy group to serve as a liaison between independent filmmakers and PBS, in ...PBS proposed FY13 budget has 2 percent membership dues increase
PBS’s fiscal 2013 draft budget, which the board today (March 30) approved to send to stations for comment, contains a 2 percent ...Wisconsin to experiment with “text to pledge” mobile giving model
Wisconsin Public Television will be testing a “text to pledge” model that it hopes will combine the immediacy that mobile users expect ...Partnership models emerging in collaborative journalism, writes Stearns of Free Press
Several basic partnership models have emerged in the growing collaborative journalism ecosphere, writes the Free Press‘s Josh Stearns on MediaShift. There are ...FCC announces three firms to assist in designing spectrum auctions
The FCC has selected three companies — Auctionomics, Power Auctions and MicroTech — to help it design upcoming spectrum auctions, reports Broadcasting & Cable. ...WFDD general manager Denise Franklin “can’t comment” on her departure
Denise Franklin is gone from her post as general manager of NPR member station WFDD at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. ...Lore joins MPT as vice president and chief development officer
Rick Lore is the new vice president and chief development officer at Maryland Public Television, responsible for membership, on-air fundraising, major and ...Patricia Simon stepping down from helm of PBS39
Patricia Simon, president of PBS39 in Bethlehem, Pa., is leaving the station after 10 years to pursue other opportunities, reports the local Express-Times. ...WTMD to move from Towson campus to City Center
NPR member station WTMD-FM is moving from an 1,800-square-foot facility in the center of the Towson University campus to an 8,000 square-foot ...
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