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CPB offers $2 million to 20 markets for mobile DTV
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today (Dec. 15) $2 million in grants to fund mobile DTV work at stations in 20 ...Williams to pen book on free speech
Juan Williams, the news analyst who landed a $2 million contract with Fox News after his dismissal from NPR, has signed a ...Big Bird lands in China to help kids deal with disasters
Big Bird visited Beijing today (Dec. 14) to help kick off a new outreach to produce and distribute emergency response and preparedness ...CPB announces appointment of Jennifer Lawson as s.v.p. of TV/digital content
Jennifer Lawson has returned to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, this time as senior vice president of television and digital video content. ...Ebert’s latest show will air in 192 markets
Movie critic Roger Ebert has Tweeted that his new show, Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies is being picked up in 192 markets and ...Two local pubradio stations now qualify for CSGs
Two public radio stations are receiving their first Community Service Grants from CPB. KCNP-FM in Ada, Okla., licensed to the Chickasaw Nation, ...Founding father of Hawaii pubradio dies at 86
The first general manager of Hawaii Public Radio, Cliff Elben, died Dec. 11 in Honolulu. He was 86. Eblen arrived in Hawaii in ...“170 Million Americans” launches to help save pubcasting funding
On average every month, 170 million Americans go to television, radio, online services and in-person events offered by public media. That crowd ...New director of development at Idaho PTV
Idaho Public Television has hired Megan Griffin as its new director of development. She will manage a team of 10, including director of ...Edwards appoints NPR programming panel
KPCC President Bill Davis will chair a task force of public radio programmers, researchers and news execs analyzing programming opportunities and economics ...ivi TV adds Chicago signals, including WTTW
The controversial online TV provider ivi, which sells worldwide access to broadcast signals, announced today (Dec. 13) that it has added Chicago ...With Soros funding, NPR walked into escalating crossfire
Should NPR have accepted a $1.8 million reporting grant from the Open Society Foundations, given the antagonism that political conservatives and Fox ...Transfer of Current to American University approved in principle
Current is likely to have a new publisher in January — the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. Details of ...Pubcaster Monk gets to thank his lifesavers in person
One year ago, on Dec. 10, 2009, Curtis Monk had a heart attack. Monk, president of Commonwealth Public Broadcasting, which operates Virginia’s ...KCET releases 2011 programming details
KCET in Los Angeles, going independent of PBS membership on Jan. 1, 2011, has announced its lineup. Pubcasting programmers have been waiting ...
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