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PBS Kids announces first “augmented reality” educational app
Children now have their own “augmented reality” educational mobile app from PBS Kids. The Fetch! Lunch Rush App was created by WGBH ...Jim Leonard, longtime host on Texas Public Radio, dies at 61
Texas Public Radio’s KSTX/89.1 FM reports that Jim Leonard, an on-air host for 17 years, died Nov. 10 of complications from a ...“To the Point” to return to topic of Friday’s “completely unacceptable” broadcast
To the Point host Warren Olney is under fire for his Nov. 11 talk show linking the child sex abuse scandal at ...TV organizations issue declaration from Shanghai on future of OTA broadcasting
PBS is a signatory to an international joint declaration, announced at 11 a.m. local time today (11/11) at the Future of Broadcast ...APM’s Alvarado joins board of Center for Investigative Reporting
Joaquin Alvarado, senior vice president for digital innovation at American Public Media, is one of two new members on the Center for ...Charlie Rose to co-host CBS Early Show starting in January, New York Times says
The New York Times is reporting that longtime public broadcasting talk-show host Charlie Rose will co-host a new version of CBS’s The Early Show. The new ...BET veteran will lead Washington’s WHUT
In Washington, D.C., Jennifer Lawson’s successor as g.m. of Howard University’s WHUT-TV is Jefferi K. Lee, a 30-year TV veteran with 17 ...PBS International, China Educational Television strike multi-year deal
PBS International announced today it has signed a multi-year broadcast and distribution agreement with China Educational Television (CETV) in Beijing, part of ...Moyers: Stations must lead “makeover” of pubcasting system
Bill Moyers, speaking at the American Public Television Fall Marketplace going on this week (Nov. 9-12) in Memphis, today called for a ...Kaufman to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at International Wildlife Film Fest
The next International Wildlife Film Festival, May 2012 in Missoula, Mont., will honor Nature executive producer Fred Kaufman with a Lifetime Achievement Award ...NJTV, successor to NJN, airs first live newscast and election coverage
For the first time, NJTV, the new incarnation of the New Jersey Network, presented a live newscast on Monday (Nov. 7) and ...KCET, Eyetronics unveil first five original series on Southern California
KCET in Los Angeles, the largest independent pubTV station in the country, has revealed the initial lineup of its new original series ...Four tribal radio stations signing on in northern Minnesota
Four new American Indian radio stations are on the air across northern Minnesota, reports Minnesota Public Radio. The stations, in Callaway, Nett ...CPB, PBS announce Expanded Learning Through Transmedia Content test stations
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS today (Nov. 7) announced the 11 public television stations that will serve as demonstration sites ...Anonymous lender saves Salt Lake station from default
An unexpected intervention from an anonymous lender has saved Salt Lake City’s KCPW-FM from defaulting on a loan, ensuring that it will ...
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