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NPR selects new chief financial officer
Deborah A. Cowan is the new chief financial officer at NPR, the network announced today (July 7). Cowan is currently senior ...Hughes to depart leadership of Public Interactive next month
After what she termed a “difficult deliberation,” NPR v.p. Debra May Hughes is leaving the network and her post at the top ...PBS to partner on upcoming package of Documentaries On-Demand
Documentaries On-Demand, featuring PBS programming, will begin this autumn, reports Multichannel News. It’s a partnership with content distributor Gravitas Ventures. The package ...Nigerian Sesame Street to feature Muppet with HIV
An HIV-positive Muppet will be a co-host of the new Nigerian Sesame Street, reports the international entertainment news site C21Media.com. The show ...Meanwhile, in France . . .
In international pubcasting news, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has selected a new head of France’s pubTV network — after changing a law ...Pennsylvania’s WVIA turns around budget after 18 percent state cut
After losing 18 percent of its budget in state funding cuts last year, WVIA in Pittston, Pa., ended its fiscal year ...Dish Network sues FCC over noncom HD carriage mandate
Dish Network is suing the Federal Communication Commission over the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, which requires the satTV provider to ...Growing multicast channels may be big factor in PBS ratings mystery
Stirrings of audience life in multicast channels may the big reason why the national Nielsen ratings acquired by PBS have been rising ...Vocalo cuts five jobs, will emphasize building the broadcast
To advance Vocalo, its radio/web experiment in reaching a younger, more diverse audience, Chicago Public Media (formerly Chicago Public Radio) said Friday ...Police officer hit her during May Day violence, pubradio reporter testifies
A pubradio reporter testified Wednesday (June 30) about being hit by a police officer during a violent May Day event three years ...OETA dismisses three on-air news staffers due to state budget cuts
Oklahoma Educational Television Authority has dropped three longtime on-air news personalities due to state budget cuts, reports the Oklahoman. News anchors Gerry Bonds ...Years later, columnist still thinks NPR is a “cultish echo chamber”
The Miami Herald‘s columnist Glen Garvin recently came across a piece he wrote in June 1993 bashing NPR. Now he writes: “NPR remains a ...“The Old Scout” steps aside, for now
Garrison Keillor is taking a hiatus. Nope, not from pubradio’s popular Prairie Home Companion, but rather from “The Old Scout,” his weekly newspaper column. ...N.C. college station hopes to become the latest NPR affiliate
The radio station at Gaston College in Dallas, N.C., is beginning the process of becoming an NPR affiliate, according to the Gaston Gazette. The ...Kerger signs on for three more years at PBS
PBS CEO Paula Kerger has inked another three-year contract, according to PBS. No word on salary. According to a 2009 survey of ...
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