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Fair use: What public media makers are doing right and how they can do even better
Fair use, the right to employ copyrighted material in certain situations without licensing it, is in resurgence after two dismal decades of ...Four shows on PBS are faves among most conservative and liberal TV viewers
Viewers on each end of the political spectrum, conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats, have favorite PBS shows, according to a yearlong study ...NJTV selects four colleges as satellite bureaus
NJTV will use four “content bureaus” located at universities across New Jersey, the pubcasting network announced today (Dec. 9). Brookdale Community College, ...Spectrum compensation included in GOP House legislation
A provision to give the Federal Communications Commission authority to compensate broadcasters for giving up spectrum was included in a House Republican ...LPB selects 16 programs for Public Media Content Fund grants
Latino Public Broadcasting today (Dec. 9) announced 16 newly funded programs as part of its 2011 Public Media Content Fund for Latino-themed ...KUAC-TV in Fairbanks to leave AlaskaOne partnership after 16 years
A proposed merger of Alaska pubcasting stations not only fell apart over the summer, but also has now created a larger rift: ...KCSM-TV in San Mateo, Calif., goes up for sale
As expected, the San Mateo (Calif.) Community College announced today (Dec. 7) it is seeking a buyer for public broadcaster KCSM-TV. In ...PBS to produce public TV track at 2012 PMDMC
Next year’s Public Media Development and Marketing Conference, the annual event organized by pubradio’s Development Exchange, will include a new track for ...CPB supports more Latino-focused programming in Los Angeles
CPB announced today that it has awarded Southern California Public Radio in Los Angeles $1.8 million to support the One Nation Media ...WHYY and KPCC new journalism partners with NBC
Pubcasting stations WHYY and KPCC are two new noncom partners with NBC, effective immediately. The network is making good on its promise ...NET starting classical radio programming partnership with KVNO soon
NET (Nebraska Educational Telecommunications) is exploring a partnership with KVNO/Classical 90.7 at University of Nebraska at Omaha, reports the Lincoln Journal-Star. “This is not ...Acorn TV gives subscribers their Brit fix
Acorn Media, a leading U.S. distributor of British programming on DVD, now is offering a streaming video Web site of classic British ...Keillor un-retires from “Prairie Home Companion” yet again
Well, American Public Media’s former president Bill Kling was right — Garrison Keillor wasn’t serious about retiring in spring 2013, as Keillor ...Iowa Public Television’s Mike Newell dies at 66
Mike Newell, a longtime producer at Iowa Public Television, died Thursday night (Dec. 1) at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, after ...Watchdogs themselves are moving into the sunshine
Nonprofit newsrooms, often critical of lobbies and political players that hide their funding sources, increasingly are open about their own fiscal support. ...
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