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APM partners up for Carolinas Public Insight Network
The Charlotte Observer, American Public Media and the Charlotte Viewpoint website last weekend (Sept. 11) launched its citizen-sourced Carolinas Public Insight Network. ...CPB’s Bole to speak at FedTalks tech conference
Rob Bole, CPB’s v.p. digital media strategy, is among the speakers at the Oct. 12 FedTalks 2010, a D.C. confab that bills ...Classical WSMR goes on the air Wednesday
Sarasota’s WSMR debuts Wednesday (Sept. 15), bringing 24-hour classical music to South Florida, according to the Bradenton Herald. Renovations continue on its ...East Tennessee adds PBS to name
East Tennessee Public Television is now East Tennessee PBS, reports the Knoxville News Sentinel. “To cover our large viewing area of more ...Getler, PBS ombudsman, wades deeper into Nova climate-change controversy
“Warning: This Is a Long Column,” writes PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler. It’s his second piece on viewers raising questions about the financial ...Pubcasters get part of Knight Foundation’s $3.14 million for 19 community initiatives
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today (Sept. 13) announced $3.14 million in matching grants for 19 ...Pew finds blending of digital and traditional news sources in media consumption
Instead of replacing their traditional news outlets, Americans are actually integrating new technologies into their media habits, according to a new study ...WNET puzzled by use of its content on new live TV app from Seattle’s ivi
The Seattle based ivi today (Sept. 13) launched an app that it claims will provide subscribers live access to more than 20 ...Happy 50th, KPBS!
Supporters of the San Diego State University licensee will gather for a private gala Tuesday night (Sept. 14) to celebrate the Golden ...Rolling Stone magazine calls Frontline’s Lyman “The Voice”
Frontline‘s authoritative baritone, that uber-narrator Will Lyman, is one of Rolling Stone magazine’s “Best Characters and Most Memorable Scene-Stealers” for the fall TV season. Rolling Stone dubbed ...Kentucky network lays off 13 staffers
Kentucky Educational Television last week (Sept. 9) laid off 13 employees, the Lexington Herald-Leader is reporting. Network spokesperson Tim Bischoff declined to identify the ...Guess who’s coming back to his original home on PBS?
Legendary film critic Roger Ebert returns to Chicago’s WTTW, original home of the pubcasting fave At the Movies, in January 2011 with Roger Ebert Presents ...Kling to retire from MPR, build regional news initiative
Bill Kling will retire from Minnesota Public Radio and the American Public Media Group, the public radio network and national production company ...Did your pubTV site make Beer’s list?
Take a gander at a few of the best web sites in pubTV, as per pubmedia blogger Chris Beer, who’s also a ...Writers Guild members approve four-year pubTV contract
Made-for-Internet programming is covered for the first time under a new collective bargaining agreement unanimously approved by the Writers Guild of America ...
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