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Virginia Gov. McDonnell proposes to zero-out state aid to pubcasting
After using a line-item veto this spring to trim state funding for Virginia’s public broadcasting stations, Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell has ...Board unanimously agrees to merger between Milwaukee pubTV and Friends group
The Milwaukee Area Technical College Board of Directors voted Tuesday (Dec. 20) 7-0 to place the fundraising operations of the MPTV Friends ...PBS NewsHour tops international and government TV coverage in new Pew analysis
PBS NewsHour gave viewers more than one-third more coverage of international events over the last year than other TV outlets, including cable, morning and ...You heart NPR? Check this out
In case you haven’t seen it yet, “Hey girl. I heart NPR” on Tumblr is pretty amusing, with its hunky-dude photos and ...Vision and risk necessary for pubmedia in 2012, observers say
What’s the most important innovation necessary for public media in the new year? That’s what pubmedia thinker/blogger/advocate Amanda Hirsch wanted to know, so ...Longtime Wisconsin Public Radio host announces retirement
Jean Feraca, an on-air host on Wisconsin Public Radio since 1983, told listeners on Tuesday (Dec. 20) that she’s retiring in March ...Silver Batons for pubTV science docs, radio investigative reporting
Pubcasters won three of the 2012 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards announced this morning by Columbia University: Nova, the PBS science series produced ...PBS NewsHour hires CQ Roll Call’s Bellantoni as political editor
PBS NewsHour has a new political editor. Christina Bellantoni of CQ Roll Call takes her post on Jan. 2, 2012, to oversee all political coverage on ...Once again, WHYY’s Satullo and cartooning partner produce serialized holiday tale
Don’t miss Whiteout Christmas, this year’s annual seasonal story by WHYY’s Chris Satullo and Tony Auth, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. They’ve ...WXXI merging with Rochester’s historic Little Theatre
WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., is acquiring the city’s Little Theatre as a subsidiary, it announced Monday (Dec. 19). The merger, effective January ...WNET owed $500,000 by Vine Talk production company, paper says
A couple big show-biz names are owed money for their participation in the pubTV program Vine Talk, the New York Times is reporting. Actor Stanley Tucci ...Five charged with trespassing after climbing WETA tower to parachute
Five persons were charged with trespassing late Wednesday night (Dec. 14) after they climbed WETA’s 500-foot radio tower in Arlington, Va., in ...Final omnibus bill doesn’t ban CPB funding NPR, as had been proposed
A legislative rider to the omnibus spending bill concerning CPB funding is not included in the final budget agreement, according to a ...“Aristocratic crowd” turns out for Downton Abbey preview
Masterpiece and Vanity Fair celebrated the upcoming second season of Downton Abbey with an “aristocratic crowd” of A-list guests at New York’s Museum of Modern Art this ...Wittstock says CNC kept working in good faith to avoid collapse of news bureau
The head of the closed Capitol News Connection bureau in Washington, Melinda Wittstock, apologized yesterday to former pubradio clients of the news ...
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