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Nothing merry prankster-ish about James O’Keefe
“The object is to expose reality,” says conservative muckraker James O’Keefe, in a New York Times Magazine feature profiling the 27-year-old firebrand ...PBS starting up PBS UK channel in Great Britain
PBS is launching a digital channel in Great Britain, the New York Times is reporting. The channel, which will run on satellite and cable, ...Masterpiece welcomes new national sponsor as its Trust hits $850,000
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — After seven years, Masterpiece has a new national corporate sponsor. The 40-year-old anthology drama series on Sunday (July 31) ...Jane Lynch turns supervillain for upcoming WordGirl movie
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Jane Lynch, the villainous cheerleader coach on Fox’s Glee, will have a guest-star as an animated supervillain on a ...At TCA press tour, ‘House’ extols jazz; first new series from Fred Rogers Co. coming
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — TV’s Dr. Gregory House will reveal a little-known specialty this fall: a talent for singing and playing jazz piano. ...Interim g.m. of former PBS station WDSC announces resignation
The interim general manager of Daytona State College’s WDSC-TV, which recently dropped PBS membership, is resigning in September. “I believe the television station ...Internal programming break research continuing, Kerger tells press tour
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — More than two months after raising the prospect of primetime promotional breaks within programs, PBS is still studying the ...Ombudsman asks: Is PBS overlooking major arts story?
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler has written an interesting column on PBS arts coverage. Namely, why PBS, with its rejuvenated focus on the ...Nonprofit Seattle PostGlobe, launched with KCTS assistance in 2009, is closing
The Seattle PostGlobe, which launched in 2009 as an early online nonprofit newspaper venture with help from public broadcasting station KCTS 9 ...In WJMF takeover, WGBH shows how to make friends in college radio
Among the student-operated college stations to be converted into mainstream public radio FMs this year, the hand-over of Bryant University’s WJMF to ...WNED acquires WBFO, two other stations, from University of Buffalo in $4 million deal
WNED is paying the University of Buffalo $4 million to operate WBFO-FM 88.7 and two other New York stations, the parties announced ...Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy holds first meeting on future of pubcasting
In the first of an ongoing series of discussions on the future public broadcasting, the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and ...Essential Public Media predicts big ratings boost by fall
Station leaders of the new Essential Public Media believe they can top the former WDUQ’s best audience numbers — in fact, by ...Knight-Batten honor goes to NPR’s Carvin for his “new form of journalism”
NPR’s Tweeter extraordinaire Andy Carvin has won a Knight-Batten Award for having “pioneered a new form of journalism” during the recent Arab ...McCain criticizes Reid’s debt-ceiling plan for including spectrum auction payments
A proposed auction of television spectrum has now become tangled up in the onerous ongoing debate over raising the debt ceiling, Broadcasting & Cable ...