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Pubcasting funding foe co-stars in Rocky Mountain PBS video
Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), an outspoken opponent of federal funding for public broadcasting, appears in a new fundraising video for Rocky Mountain ...Atlanta pubcasters’ salaries scrutinized
Fresh off of public radio pledge-drive season, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution examines compensation packages of top execs of Georgia’s largest pubcasting stations, Public ...Changes at the top of Houston’s public stations, WRVO newsroom
In a reorganization of the University of Houston’s pubcasting stations, top managers John Proffitt of KUHF-FM and John Hesse of KUHT-TV will ...Prairie Home Companion sound-effects guru Tom Keith dies at 64
Tom Keith, who created the sound effects for Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show for decades, died Sunday (Oct. 30) after collapsing ...The Documentary Group produces PBS “Primetime” series as well as its similar underwriting spots
America in Primetime, which premiered on PBS Sunday night (Oct. 30) carries underwriting spots for Unilever’s Dove brand produced by the Documentary Group, the ...Redding’s KIXE-TV partnering with AM radio show for home improvement program
KIXE-TV in Redding, Calif., is launching a television version of the On The House home-improvement AM radio call-in show. KIXE General Manager Mike Quinn ...“Rakin’ that stuff out and givin’ it to the cows,” says David Dye, “that makes ...
The free downloads of World Cafe artists and newcomers celebrating the WXPN production’s 20th anniversary may be welcome in some quarters, but in terms ...Second freelancer loses pubcasting job over link to Occupy Wall Street movement
A freelance web producer for The Takeaway, a co-production of WNYC Radio and Public Radio International, has been fired for her reported participation in ...It’s Kilkats vs. Raven Lunatics on . . . public broadcasting?
Here’s a probable first for the pubcasting system: Live roller derby! KXLL-FM/Excellent Radio in Juneau, Alaska (“Public Radio That Will Melt Your ...Miami and Reno pubcasters partner for lunar eclipse webcast in December
Two public broadcasters are collaborating with an Ohio observatory and Nevada planetarium in a unique partnership to bring a December lunar eclipse ...PBS UK channel inks carriage deal with Virgin Media
PBS UK, the Public Broadcasting Service’s first international commercial channel, has finalized a carriage deal with Virgin Media. The agreement includes rights ...Washington Post exec Bo Jones to take helm of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
MacNeil/Lehrer Productions has hired a new president and c.e.o., Boisfeuillet “Bo” Jones Jr., who has spent the last 32 years in executive ...Congressional Research report details challenges facing PEG channels
Public, educational and government (PEG) channels are facing numerous financial, policy and technological obstacles, according to a new Congressional Research Service report. ...Kerger in Singapore: Content, innovation, sustainability
PBS President Paula Kerger gave the keynote address Thursday (Oct. 27) at the Public Broadcasting International meeting, going on this week in ...Milwaukee and Seattle lose longtime public broadcasters
Two pubcasting deaths of note: — Art Langlas, “Mr. Auction” both behind and in front of the camera for Milwaukee Public Television Friends, ...
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