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Oklahoma lets pubcaster off the hook for legislative session coverage
The Oklamoma House of Representatives voted down a proposal Thursday (April 7) that would have required the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority to ...WNET, KOCE, World channel to run “American Family” marathon
A marathon of PBS’s original 1973 American Family documentary episodes begins at 11 p.m. April 23 on WNET/Thirteen in New York City, immediately following ...Expansion of Native FMs at risk
Native Public Media has asked federal policymakers to extend the construction permit deadline for tribal groups to launch new noncommercial educational FM ...Unique coloring book helps kids get ready for earthquakes
The nonprofit investigative news unit California Watch is distributing “Ready to Rumble,” a coloring and activity book to help kids prepare for ...Conservative libertarian defends public broadcasting
Here’s a look at public broadcasting funding from a unique point of view: a fiscal conservative who is also a social libertarian. ...Media reformers gather in Boston
PBS President Paula Kerger, Frontline Executive Producer David Fanning and Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! will address the National Conference for Media Reform, ...St. Louis Beacon garners $2.6 million in donations
The nonprofit St. Louis Beacon, housed inside the city’s PBS member station KETC (Current, March 30, 2009), has received $2.6 million in gifts ...Former CPB Board vice-chair to head Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Christy Carpenter, a former vice-chair of the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is the new c.e.o. of the ...Public-access channel returning to Albany, N.Y., due to public demand
While many PEG (public, educational and government access) channels are going dark nationwide, the city of Albany, N.Y., is creating a new ...Virginia Senate spares pubcasters from deep funding cuts
The Virginia Senate voted to partially restore funding for public broadcasting yesterday, rejecting Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proposal to cut $1.7 million supporting ...Modern-day “Freedom Riders” selected to retrace route
American Experience has chosen 40 student Freedom Riders who will travel the original bus route of the legendary civil-rights activists who used public transportation ...New “Vine Talk” show makes conservative point that PBS is elitist, Slate review says
“Any budget-cutter or culture warrior hoping to rig an argument that federally funded television exists to serve the coastal elite need only ...Schiller asked to resign even before NPR board saw entire sting video, she says
NPR’s former President Vivian Schiller told an audience at the Paley Center For Media that she was forced to resign even before ...WMFE overlap stations don’t jump at possible primary status
Reverberations from the impending sale of primary PBS affiliate WMFE in Orlando, Fla., continue. Secondary stations WDSC at Daytona State College and ...Slate columnist sees PBS as the “hideous, ugly televised brother” of NPR
“Save NPR! But please, put PBS out of its misery.” That’s quite the provocative headline, and the Slate piece by columnist and ...
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