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“Masterpiece” and KPBS split $1 million gift to Masterpiece Trust
The Masterpiece Trust has received a $1 million gift from San Diego philanthropist Darlene Shiley. It’s the largest gift to date for ...How about affinity credit cards to help support the pubcasting system?
Matt MacDonald of PRX has an idea for funding pubcasting. “Public radio and television stations should collaborate and work together with Visa, ...CPB Board okays $7 million for seven-station centralcast project in Florida
The CPB Board on Tuesday (March 27) unanimously approved spending up to $7 million for a joint master-control project linking six stations ...Stalking the wild pubradio reporter
KPCC is giving the public a rare (tongue firmly in cheek) chance to see the public-radio journalist in its natural habitat — ...KVCR president put on administrative leave for “undisclosed matter”
Larry Ciecalone, president of dual licensee KVCR in San Bernardino, Calif., has been placed on administrative leave “while an undisclosed matter is ...Arkansas pubcasting advocate of nearly 50 years dies in Little Rock
Jane Krutz, an enthusiastic advocate for more than 47 years for the Arkansas Educational Television Network, died Sunday (March 25) in Little ...Masterpiece Trust concept sparks new “Friends of NewsHour” effort
The PBS NewsHour is developing a Friends of the NewsHour initiative, similar to that created for WGBH’s Masterpiece strand, to allow viewers to contribute directly ...CPB backs NPR’s foreign coverage
CPB has awarded a $500,000 grant to NPR in support of its international news coverage. The grant, announced during a March 26 awards ...Silicon Valley offices of KQED move to downtown San Jose
KQED has moved its Silicon Valley offices to downtown San Jose, within walking distance of City Hall. The new site includes office ...Licensee fires Jefferson Public Radio head Ron Kramer, effective June 30
Southern Oregon University has fired longtime Jefferson Public Radio Executive Director Ron Kramer, the Mail Tribune in Medford, Ore., is reporting. Kramer held both ...Jefferson Public Radio Foundation, university licensee going to mediation over audit findings
The Jefferson Public Radio Foundation is headed to mediation with the pubstation’s licensee, Southern Oregon University, according to the Mail Tribune in Medford, Ore. ...Moyers, Winship encourage PBS to “reverse bad decision” of indie program shifts
In an essay on their Public Affairs Television website, veteran pubTV newsmen Bill Moyers and Michael Winship discuss the importance of the ...Philanthropist honors 20th year of gay newsmag “In The Life” with $1 million
New York philanthropist Henry van Ameringen is donating $1 million to In The Life Media to honor of the 20th anniversary of ...A special letter to the editors
Peters D. Willson, longtime friend of Current founder Jim Fellows and the executor of his estate, has penned a tribute to the paper’s ...Ira Glass on “Downton Abbey”: “Complete and utter (expletive)”
Apparently This American Life host Ira Glass is no fan of the PBS hit Downton Abbey. In an interview with Duke University’s Chronicle, Glass says he watched ...
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