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Tavis Smiley does not own a cell phone.Pubcasting supporter Ted Stevens dies in plane crash
The Anchorage Daily News has confirmed that former Republican Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, 86, a longtime public broadcasting champion, died in a plane crash ...CPB auditing Arkansas radio station associated with ACORN
Community radio station KABF (88.3 FM) in Little Rock, Ark., currently under audit by CPB, “may be broke in a matter of ...WNET sheds half of its office space, much old equipment
WNET.org has signed a lease for midtown Manhattan office space half the size of its present quarters near Penn Station, the licensee ...Sesame to help kids in Abu Dhabi “Reach for the Sky”
Sesame Workshop is partnering with the Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy to produce “Reach for the Sky,” a science event beginning this month ...Rockefeller spectrum bill would make bandwidth turnover voluntary
A bill introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) authorizes a spectrum auction but guarantees that the bandwidth turnover would be ...Footage in “LennonNYC” surprises Ono
Yoko Ono generated news from the PBS stage Thursday (Aug. 5) during the TCA Summer Press Tour, saying she still opposes parole ...And now, in the center ring . . .
The “Circus” came to town today (Aug. 5) courtesy of PBS at the ongoing TCA Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles. The ...Will KCET secede from PBS?
For our RSS subscribers, don’t miss the story just posted on current.org on KCET’s possible departure from PBS as of Jan. 1, ...TV faves turn out for PBS “Pioneers of Television” panel at Press Tour
A roomful of TV talent assembled Wednesday (Aug. 4) at a panel and reception for PBS’s “Pioneers of Television” at the TCA ...NPR intern recovering from knife attack
In a random attack in the Chinatown neighborhood near NPR’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, an NPR intern was stabbed in the neck yesterday ...Complex UNC-TV story picks up even more plot twists
The already twisty-turny tale of UNC-TV turning over documents to a North Carolina General Assembly committee (Current, July 26) is becoming even ...Carl Kasell wipes the announce-booth floor with Howard Stern
It was semi-retired NPR newscaster Carl Kasell, not gazillion-dollar controversialist Howard Stern who was elected by web users to the National Radio ...PBS arts website launches on Aug. 23
PBS’s long-discussed arts website goes online Aug. 23, President Paula Kerger announced at the TCA Press Tour today (Aug. 4) in Los ...Blame game on Long Island
Who’s to blame for the “11th hour scramble” on behalf of Long Island’s WLIU? The New York Daily News quotes anonymous sources ...
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