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WGBH modifying Roadshow web contact info, participation agreement after complaint
After receiving and investigating an 11-page complaint from a former Antiques Roadshow appraiser (Current, Dec. 12, 2011), producing station WGBH is revising how it handles ...Shapiro: Accelerator’s challenge is using for-profit energy for nonprofit mission
Here’s more from Jake Shapiro, founding c.e.o. of Public Radio Exchange, on why PRX and the Knight Foundation created the Public ...MPTV to premiere documentary on conservative talk radio in Wisconsin
A two-hour documentary examining the impact that conservative talk radio has had on the political climate in Wisconsin — a state currently ...NewsHour gets CPB grant to caption and translate its election coverage
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is giving PBS NewsHour a $420,000 grant to enable volunteers to translate its 2012 election coverage into dozens of ...Blackbaud acquires Convio
Blackbaud, a software provider for nonprofit organizations including public broadcasters, has agreed to purchase Convio, another firm that helps pubcasters with fundraising. ...Vanity Fair examines NPR’s “annus horribilis of 2011”
“NPR has always been a curiously insular institution,” according to a long look at the network in the latest Vanity Fair, “a place where ...Could “Downton” be headed for Hollywood?
The Sun newspaper in Britain is reporting that the Masterpiece Classic hit Downton Abbey could be in for a movie treatment. After Downton’s win for best mini-series at ...Kellogg, NPR national correspondent, departs after 14 months
NPR National Correspondent Alex P. Kellogg has left the network after 14 months on the job, he told the Journal-isms blog on ...Ratings for new format WESA-FM down 50 percent from WDUQ days
Audience numbers for news WESA-FM, the former WDUQ jazz/news station in Pittsburgh, have dropped 50 percent since June 2011, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, from ...South Dakota governor criticizes NPR investigation on Native foster children
The governor of South Dakota is criticizing an NPR investigative report on foster care for Native American children in the state, according ...“Downton” and “Freedom Riders” score Eddie Award nods
Nominees for the 62nd annual American Cinema Editors’ Eddie Awards include several public TV include Downton Abbey from Masterpiece Classic and Freedom Riders from American Experience. The Eddies honor excellence ...“Independent Lens” schedule includes two possible Oscar nominees
Independent Lens has unveiled its winter/spring 2012 season, which includes two films on the “short-list” for Academy Award nominations: Hell and Back Again, about the human ...“Downton” wins Golden Globe for best mini-series
Downton Abbey, the PBS hit from Masterpiece Classic, received the Golden Globe for best mini-series or motion picture made for television in ceremonies Sunday night (Jan. ...Bill Kling, seen as aloof? “Probably accurate,” he tells the New York Times
Bill Kling, former c.e.o. of American Public Media Group, admitted to the New York Times that during his time at the Minnesota-based pubradio network ...WAMU buys two translators to stretch its bluegrass reach
WAMU 88.5 in Washington, D.C., has purchased two FM translators to extend its bluegrass format, reports Inside Radio. The station is paying ...
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