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The future of pledge, a la KCET?
There’s been no shortage of news coverage of KCET splitting from PBS as of Jan. 1. And now, a cartoon from L.A. ...Pubmedia lecture service gets new Carnegie partner
The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is joining the Forum Network, a PBS and NPR free video lecture service. The ...Mixed news for pubcasters in Philanthropy 400
The Philanthropy 400, an annual donation overview of the 400 largest nonprofits, is out today (Oct. 18) from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. In general, ...More providers and devices are joining march toward mobile DTV
WGBH, one of the first pubcasting stations in the country to offer mobile DTV service to viewers (Current, Feb. 2, 2009) is now ...Sesame Workshop names new senior v.p. for international efforts
Dr. Charlotte Frances Cole is the new senior v.p., global education, for Sesame Workshop, it announced today (Oct. 18). Cole will oversee ...NPR gets $1.8 million to put reporters in statehouses nationwide
NPR will develop a statehouse enterprise reporting project with a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Foundations, the New York Times reported on ...Hair, glorious Muppet hair!
“I just watched a Sesame Street video that left me in tears. Tears of joy, that is,” writes Huffington Post blogger Michele Langevine Leiby. ...Major Market Group presents new namesake award to Bill Kobin
The Public Television Major Market Group honored Bill Kobin, outgoing MMG president, Wednesday at its meeting in Denver, just in time for ...New Jersey Network needs “reconfiguration,” legislative committee recommends
In a 20-page report released today (Oct. 15), a 10-member bipartisan New Jersey Legislature committee called for “a dramatic reconfiguration” of New ...Ready to Learn gets nearly $72 million, CPB and PBS announce
CPB and PBS just announced (Oct. 15) almost $72 million in federal grants for the Ready to Learn early childhood literacy campaign ...Nova moving to Wednesdays, themed nights ahead for upcoming PBS primetime
Big changes are coming in PBS’s winter/spring 2011 primetime schedule — including a shift for Nova from its longtime Tuesday slot to Wednesdays, ...WNET/WLIW’s Teaching & Learning Celebration moves toward sixth edition
The annual conference of K-12 teachers and educational experts of various stripes has been scheduled for March 18-19 in New York. Last ...Look at yourself, now back to this item, now back to yourself …
By now you may very well be one of the 4 million viewers of the Sesame Street spoof of that cheeky Old Spice commercial ...Nova’s “Emergency Mine Rescue,” filmed at site of Chilean disaster, airs Oct. 26
A Nova film crew has been at the site of the Chilean mine disaster since Sept. 5, and the program will air its ...Vegas PBS inundated with media credential requests for debate
Vegas PBS is Ground Zero for one of the most anticipated debates in the nation this election season: Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ...
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