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Reaching more Latino listeners is crucial to NPR’s survival, Tovares says
The efforts by noncom Radio Bilingue, which is expanding and building five stations along the U.S.-Mexico border, “are key as the number ...Wilson: PBS is “premium television on the honors system”
PBS is hoping to “make audiences think of public television more like the top-tier programming of HBO, Showtime and other channels they ...Group seeks denial of license renewal for Asheville’s WCQS-FM
A local “Ad-Hoc Committee for Responsible Public Radio” led by longtime pubcaster Fred Flaxman is asking the Federal Communications Commission to deny ...Outlook grim for pubcasting in New Zealand
“2012 will be a make or break year for public broadcasting in New Zealand,” according to the Spy Report, an Australian media ...Florida stations still struggling after May cut of state funding
The Tampa Bay Times is looking back at a rough year for pubcasters in the state, after Gov. Rick Scott’s decision in May to ...Bob O’Rourke dies at 72; developed pubcasting science shows
Bob O’Rourke, a former vice president for public relations at the California Institute of Technology who helped develop several pubcasting science features, ...FCC reaffirms “tribal priority” for broadcast licenses
The Federal Communications on Wednesday (Dec. 28) issued an order reaffirming the “tribal priority” it created in 2009 to bolster Native American ...KET to provide public-affairs programming to Kentucky pubradio stations
Kentucky Educational Television in Lexington begins programming partnerships with pubradio stations in the state in January, it said in a statement Wednesday ...Reno’s KNPB to drop 2.5 hours of children’s shows, forgo after-school programs
KNPB, PBS in Reno, Nev., will end children’s programming at 12:30 p.m. starting next week, cutting 2.5 hours from its nine-hour daily ...Romney: Under his presidency, PBS would have advertisements
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, on the stump ahead of Iowa’s Jan. 3 GOP caucuses, today (Dec. 28) told a crowd at ...Funeral on Thursday for attorney Bob Woods, 80
Robert A. Woods, 80, a retired founding partner in the communications law firm of Schwartz, Woods & Miller, died Dec. 22 following ...Former WBAI talker Lynn Samuels found dead at 69
Progressive radio talk-show host Lynn Samuels, 69, who began her career on public radio, was found deceased in her apartment on Christmas ...Eight minutes of annoying Christmas music — you’re welcome.
And now for an annual seasonal treat, a few ho-ho-ho-horrible holiday tunes courtesy of the ever-amusing Annoying Music Show from Chicago Public Radio.Man injured, two charged in BASE jump attempt from MPT tower
A man attempting to parachute off the Maryland Public Television tower in Crownsville, Md., was injured after his chute didn’t properly open, ...Judy Jankowski dies at 61; former g.m. of WDUQ, KKJZ
Judy Jankowski, who held top management positions at several public broadcasting stations, died Dec. 17 at Kindred Hospital in Westminster, Calif. She ...
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