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KCET’s board chairman says break from PBS is a suspension; it’s willing to return to ...
In an interview in today’s (Jan. 17) Broadcasting & Cable, KCET Board Chairman Gordon Bava insists the station has not “terminated” its relationship with ...Broadcasting authority approves $3.4 million, three-month budget for NJN
The newly convened New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority last Friday (Jan. 14) okayed a three-month budget of $3.4 million to preserve New ...Kansas governor proposes ending state funding to pubcasters
Public broadcasters in Kansas are the latest in the crosshairs for state budget cuts. In his budget proposal, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback wants ...KALW gets $200,000 loan from San Francisco Unified School District
In an unprecedented move, the San Francisco School Board voted unanimously to extend a line of credit up to $200,000 to KALW, “even as ...Get your station SAFER via NCME webinar
The National Center for Media Engagement is sponsoring a webinar at 1 p.m. Eastern Wednesday (Jan. 19) on the CPB-funded SAFER (Station ...PBS ombudsman ponders lack of weekend breaking news on the network
In the wake of the Tucson shootings on Jan. 8, PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler is wondering why PBS doesn’t have some way ...WYEP, Public Radio Capital forge joint venture to purchase Pittsburgh’s WDUQ
Pittsburgh’s NPR News and jazz music station WDUQ is to be sold for $6 million to a joint partnership of WYEP and ...Local underwriting time available Feb. 1 on MHz Worldview
Lots of stuff going on at international programmer MHz Networks. Spokesperson Stephanie Misar was on hand at NETA in Nashville Thursday (Jan. ...Pubcasting exellence honored at NETA; KET gets innovation award
Twenty-three pubcasters took home 31 trophies from the annual NETA awards Thursday (Jan. 13) in Nashville. The luncheon presentations kicked off with ...Who loses if Congress defunds NPR or CPB?
Two takes on the congressional push to end federal aid to public broadcasting: Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam explores to what extent ...NPR emerges as powerhouse for music sales
National Public Radio has become an “incredibly effective” outlet for music promoters, according to the Hollywood Reporter, in a feature that doesn’t ...CJR unveils its News Frontier Database, with information on 50 digital journalism sites
The Columbia Journalism Review has launched the News Frontier Database with profiles of an initial 50 prominent digital news sites. The database ...Dues review committee still considering system input, Kerger says
The recommendations of the PBS membership dues review committee are not a done deal, PBS President Paula Kerger told NETA attendees in ...Today at NETA is brought to you by the letter “P”
The NETA crowd at the national confab in Nashville is joking that the top pubcasting orgs collectively known in the system as the G4 – ...Elvis Mitchell joins Movieline
Elvis Mitchell, host of the KCRW pubradio program The Treatment, has landed a film reviewing gig at the Movieline website after mysteriously departing Roger Ebert Presents At ...
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