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“Motown Sound” fills White House for PBS show
The White House “reverberated like a long-ago basement sound studio in Detroit” on Thursday (Feb. 24), reports the Associated Press. The occasion: a PBS In ...PBMA leaving NETA, will focus on pubcasting leadership training
The Public Broadcasting Management Association is departing its 30-year home at the National Educational Telecommunications Association. It’s time, said PBMA Vice Chairman ...Pubradio tech survey charts growth in smartphone usage, streaming audio tune-ins
Results of the third annual Public Radio Technology Survey measured dramatic growth in smartphone adoption among public radio listeners and their clear ...Pubcasting foe Sen. Jim DeMint on Communications subcommittee
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and ranking member Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) have named the members of their subcommittees, including ...PBS: Doing something right … or left?
“The conventional tag that I often see applied to PBS is ‘liberal,'” writes PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler in his column today (Feb. ...WNYC latest to sign on with Public Insight Network
WNYC Radio in New York City has joined American Public Media’s Public Insight Network, which will provide its newsroom with a direct link to persons ...PBS going Gowalla
PBS is going live on Gowalla in March. Not sure what that means? “Gowalla helps you keep up with friends, share your favorite places ...NCME web analytics webinar info now available on site
If you’re curious about web analytics but weren’t able to participate in the Feb. 9 webinar on the topic from the National ...Two more Knight Commission papers released today
The fourth and fifth in a series of white papers aimed at implementing recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs ...Republican Congressman loves public radio — no, really
Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.), new chairman of the Rules Committee in the House of Representatives, is a big fan of public broadcasting, ...GOP-Dem talks on Continuing Resolution “off to a shaky start,” Washington Post reports
The budget stalemate continues to percolate over the Continuing Resolution to keep the government running through September, which contains a provision wiping ...Boston Globe: Defend aid to PBS and the endowments, let NPR survive on its own
Congressional Democrats have to make some tough choices about which programs to defend against the Republican drive to slash government spending, especially ...Beth Deare dies in house fire; groundbreaking former WGBH producer
Aloyce Beth DuVal Deare, a pioneering producer of African-American programming and documentaries at WGBH, was killed Feb. 20 in a four-alarm house ...A little birdie told us . . .
Are you in pubmedia? Here are five Twitter feeds you should be following, as suggested by Bryce Kirchoff at the National Center ...America’s main news diet: Commercial
America is the only major democracy in the West to rely almost entirely on commercial media to comprehensively inform its citizens. So ...
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