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Republican National Committee sanctions OPB presidential debate in March 2012
Oregon Public Broadcasting will produce and provide to NPR and PBS stations exclusive coverage of a Republican presidential debate at its studios ...WFMU convenes radio, digital innovators to explore radio’s future
The freeform broadcasters of Jersey City’s WFMU are producing the first-ever Radiovision Festival in New York later this month, a weekend-long confab ...New PBS UK channel will be promoted as “where television matters”
PBS UK, launching Nov. 1 in Great Britain, has hired the Braben firm to handle public relations and boost brand awareness, “as ...Houston Public Media selects commercial TV veteran as executive director
Lisa Trapani Shumate is the new executive director and general manager of Houston Public Media, the umbrella organization for the University of ...“To the Contrary” host Erbé delays return to show
Bonnie Erbé, founder and host of To the Contrary, has had a slight setback that will delay her return to the show. Erbé took ...Nov. 1 is premiere date for PBS U.K. channel
The PBS U.K. channel will be available to viewers across the pond starting Nov. 1, Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting. The pubTV network’s first international ...Amy Goodman, two producers, receive settlement over 2008 arrests
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and two of the show’s producers will get $100,000 in a settlement over their arrests during the 2008 ...City Council backs Lakeland Public TV’s state bond request for new facility
Lakeland Public Television in Bemidji, Minn., is seeking $3 million in state bonds for construction of a new facility, and it has ...Salt Lake’s KCPW doubles its pledge goal to keep station on the air
Salt Lake City pubradio station KCPW 88.3 is facing an Oct. 31 deadline to raise $250,000 to pay off one of two ...KCET’s Huell Howser donates all California’s Gold episodes to university library
California TV personality Huell Howser, who has been with KCET in Los Angeles since 1987, is donating all past and future episodes ...Unique all-Native American channel launches in California, plans to go national next year
FNX, the first 24-hour Native American television channel, is now on the air. First Nations Experience Television is a partnership between the ...“Prohibition” premiere scores 2.6 in overnights
Prohibition, the latest historical documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, scored a 2.6 rating among 55 metered overnight stations for its premiere ...Ohio’s WYSO to boost signal power, move to better facility
WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, will move to renovated studios and increase its signal strength from 37,000 watts to 50,000 watts before ...CoastAlaska creates ‘Radio to Go’ kits in case of disaster
In response to media outages after recent disasters elsewhere, the CoastAlaska pubradio group has built two compact portable FM stations for use ...Conn. network inks deal with schools for media academy
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network has signed an agreement with the Hartford public school system to establish at CPBN headquarters a hands-on lab ...
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