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KCET to announce reorganization of top management
As KCET in Los Angeles departs the PBS system on Jan. 1, it’ll have a reorganized management team in place. The Los Angeles Times ...Seasonal salutations from the staff of Current
To all our faithful RSS readers, happiest of holidays!WDAV-FM loses its g.m. to love
The general manager at WDAV-FM/89.9 in Davidson, N.C., Benjamin Roe, will depart to marry one of the station’s “high-profile hosts,” reports the Charlotte Observer ...Center partnership with APM’s Public Insight Network a “resounding success” so far
When the Center for Public Integrity partnered with American Public Media’s Public Insight Network (PIN) in November, “we weren’t quite sure what to ...WQLN sues Erie County gaming agency to be eligible for funds
WQLN Public Media in Erie, Pa., filed suit Wednesday (Dec. 22) against the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority in an effort to receive ...Silver batons go to five public broadcasting projects
Five public broadcasting projects won 2011 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards. The silver batons are among the most prestigious honors in broadcast journalism. PubTV ...After nearly half a century at WEMU pubradio, Art Timko to retire
Art Timko is retiring after 42 years at WEMU, Eastern Michigan University’s pubradio station. Timko, 64, started at WEMU as a student ...Foundation pledges $2.4 million for Philly collaborative news project
The William Penn Foundation has approved a $2.4 million grant for a Networked Journalism Collaborative project in Philadelphia, based in part on ...Moon over Miami: WPBT and hundreds of its fans worldwide watch the lunar eclipse online
Several staffers at WPBT2 in Miami may be still asleep this winter Tuesday afternoon, after staying up overnight (Dec. 20-21) for a unique ...Do you aspire to Packardness?
Jim Packard, longtime radio sidekick to host Michael Feldman on Whad’Ya Know?,” is retiring at the end of January. He’s also a familiar voice ...Tavis Smiley leaving KCET partnership for WNET
Tavis Smiley is severing his producing partnership with KCET in Los Angeles, and will collaborate instead with WNET/Thirteen in New York city ...Scrooge lives in a Dallas mall. Who knew? KERA did.
Hey, how about sharing some station seasonal cheer in the Current blog for the next couple weeks? We’ll start with this feature from KERA ...Debbi Aliano, CPR development director, dies October 2010
Debra Aliano, a fundraising executive for Colorado Public Radio and former g.m. of the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s radio and television ...Cookie Monster gets his fave treat, live from New York
Cookie Monster’s campaign to host Saturday Night Live didn’t work — but did get him on the show. He made an appearance on Dec. ...More than 90 percent of large cities can view government meetings on PEG channels
Of 276 U.S. cities of 100,000 or more residents, 256 of them — that’s 93 percent — televise routine meetings of one ...
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