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APTS President Pat Butler counts at least 10 Senate Republicans supporting pubcasting
Patrick Butler, in his speech at the annual Capitol Hill day sponsored by the Association of Public Television stations this week, had ...Five staffers gone from WMFE-TV, eight more to follow
Five staffers were laid off on April 1 from WMFE-TV in Orlando, Fla., the same day it announced the station was sold ...Studies show strength of Ready to Learn literacy initative
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service on Monday (April 4) released a report, “Findings from Ready to Learn: ...Construction to start this month on new St. Louis Public Radio building
St. Louis Public Radio will break ground for its $10 million new home on April 15. General Manager Tim Eby says the ...FCC launches beta version of latest website
The beta version of the Federal Communications Commission’s new website is now live. “This beta launch isn’t a beta in a traditional ...APTS salutes another champion: Sen. Harry Reid
America’s Public Television Stations presented a Champion of Public Broadcasting Award to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), a key ally in ...Jim Lehrer wins National Press Club’s prestigious Fourth Estate Award
PBS NewsHour newsman Jim Lehrer is this year’s recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, the highest honor from the National Press Club. ...Feds investigating suspicious fire at KUAR-FM in Little Rock, Ark.
An April 2 fire at KUAR-FM in Little Rock, Ark., is being investigated as possible arson by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, ...Center for Public Integrity to run iWatch News site
The Center for Public Integrity is launching the iWatch News site dedicated to nonprofit investigative journalism, the New York Times is reporting today (April 4). ...What if pubcasting got $178 billion a year?
OK, so CNN discovered that some Americans think that public broadcasting accounts for 5 percent of the federal budget, or $178 billion (yes, ...WMFE, selling to religious broadcaster, says it will return pledges to unhappy donors
WMFE is offering members a chance for donation rebates now that it has announced its pending sale to Daystar, the Orlando Sentinel is reporting. ...WMFE sale due in part to PBS dues, station president says
Jose Fajardo, president of WMFE in Orlando, told WMFE-FM today (April 4) that station management and the board “looked at mergers, partnerships, ...UPDATE: WMFE to sell for $3 million
Community Educators of Orlando Inc. — which has the same mailing address and president as Daystar religious broadcasters — has filed with ...Tiny WHDD — Robinhood Radio — finds populist success
WHDD in Sharon, Conn., the smallest NPR station in the country, gets its own story in today’s (April 4) New York Times. “In its ...“Yuppie elite” NPR fans shouldn’t forget about saving PBS too, writer says
“It would be a shame,” writes New Republic reporter Eliza Gray, “if populists and yuppies, fighting a culture war over tony NPR, ended up ...
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