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Marcia Adams dies; host of PBS cooking show, heart transplant recipient
The host of the nationally syndicated WBGU show Marcia Adams Kitchen died Satuday (Feb. 5) in Fort Wayne, Ind., following a heart attack. She was ...Sweet home Chicago: WTTW “Grannies” finally return from Egypt
Enough of the adventure, suspense and danger. “I’m glad to be home,” Pat Johnson tells the Chicago NBC affiliate in an interview ...Hurry up and read this item …
As of 11 p.m. Eastern Saturday (Feb. 5), KQED had pulled in 392 new members in a half-price deal on Groupon (that link ...ITVS creates Egypt & Democracy page
The CPB-funded Independent Television Service has posted an Egypt & Democracy page with content and resources to help visitors better understand the ...WDFH, the little community station that could
Today’s feel-good pubcasting story is brought to you by the Westchester.com local news site, with its story datelined Ossining, N.Y., about WDFH ...Al Jazeera English fans ask providers for channel; MHz reports unsolicited pubcasting donations citing AJE ...
More than 10,000 e-mails have poured in to cable and satellite providers from Americans requesting that their cable and satellite providers carry ...Now primary station in Los Angeles, PBS SoCal’s ratings are on the rise
As might be expected, PBS SoCal, which picked up primary station status and the PBS National Program Service in the L.A. market ...NCME, CPB announce interactive portal detailing community engagement activities
There’s a new interactive story portal launching today (Feb. 4), supported by CPB and building on the Public Media Maps project from ...New York Public Radio gets new digital leader
Thomas Hjelm, a former digital strategy executive at NBC’s Local Integrated Media websites and AOL, has joined New York Public Radio as ...Glass disses 170 Million Americans campaign for skirting criticisms of bias
Ira Glass of This American Life criticizes the 170 million Americans advocacy campaign to defend public broadcasting’s federal funding in today’s Boston ...“Keep Public Radio On,” campaign says via new video
The 170 Million Americans campaign to support public broadcasting funding has posted on YouTube a short video titled, “Keep Public Radio On.” ...MacArthur Foundation grants P.O.V. $1.5 million
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has renewed its support of the P.O.V. documentary series with a grant of $1.5 million ...Digital media needs “deeper purpose,” Bole contends
Public media thoughtleader Rob Bole is at it again, posing intellectually challenging questions to pubcasters everywhere. “Where is our online boldness?,” he ...Knight News Innovation Lab will bring together journalists, computer scientists
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today (Feb. 3) announced a four-year, $4.2 million grant to Northwestern University for the ...Sesame joining National Children’s Museum for programs and exhibits
The National Children’s Museum, opening in Prince George’s County, Md., in 2013, will partner with Sesame Workshop, the two announced today (Feb. ...
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