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“Nature” film snares prestigious top prize at Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
For the first time, a Nature film has won the Grand Teton Award, the top prize at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, ...Wait wait … it’s a pledge premium! Really!
Oh that Peter Sagal. The host of pubradio’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me has recorded a truly unique pledge pitch for WCQS/WYQS in ...CPB ombudsman hears from a disappointed Ruff Ruffman fan
CPB Ombudsman Joel Kaplan received a complaint letter from a 9-year-old in North Carolina who is unhappy with the end of production ...Pubcasting documentaries feature Nobel Peace Prize winners
Two of the latest Nobel Peace laureates, announced on Oct. 7, are profiled in public broadcasting documentaries. Pray the Devil Back to Hell, one ...APTS hires former NBCUniversal exec as lobbyist
The Association of Public Television Stations has hired The O Team to lobby on spectrum fees and the upcoming spectrum incentive auction, ...KTWU-TV in Topeka uses live spiders and snakes for show on phobias
I’ve Got Issues, a community affairs program on KTWU-TV in Topeka, Kan., generally concentrates on the big picture: affordable healthcare, teacher pay, terrorism. But ...Hey pubradio stations: Got tunes for your pledge drive? You do now
WUWF Public Media in Pensacola, Fla., has compiled 12 songs singing the praises of pubradio for its Public Radio Song Project, and ...Politico assesses funding realities for public radio under new NPR prez
NPR’s choice of Gary Knell as its next c.e.o. signals that the biggest challenges ahead for public radio are all about funding, ...WVTF Music Director Seth Williamson dies
Music Director Seth Williamson, who had been with WVTF in Roanoke, Va., since October 1983, died Thursday night (Oct. 6) at Montgomery ...“Welcome to ‘Thoughts on Thoughts’ “
In case you missed it, NBC’s Parks and Recreation opened with a hilarious two-minute send-up of an NPR interview with character Leslie Knope on ...Public media remembrances of Steve Jobs
WGBH Open Vault, the Boston station’s online media archives and library, has posted raw footage of a May 1990 interview the late ...Medical professor complains to PBS ombudsman over “Curious George” episode
A Curious George episode titled “Monkey Fever” has Dr. Carl E. Bartecchi, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Colorado, hot under ...BBC to shed 2,000 jobs
The BBC Trust, in consultation with BBC management, today (Oct. 6) announced proposals including cutting some 2,000 jobs from across the network ...New PIN collaborations editor is Pulitzer Prize winner
Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski will lead reporting efforts as collaborations editor for American Public Media’s Public Insight Network, it announced today ...WBFO listeners want new owner to enhance local music, news programming
During an Oct. 4 public meeting on the pending sale of university-owned WBFO-FM to WNED, listeners called for preservation of weekend music ...
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