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Wisconsin PTV “welcome home” for Vietnam vets draws over 25,000
More than 25,000 Wisconsin veterans and their supporters journeyed to the LZ Lambeau outreach May 21-23 in Green Bay, Wisc., organized by ...NPR Mobile is a big hit with users, but Sutton foresees fallout for newsmags
Two different takes on NPR’s mobile strategy began circulating on the Web yesterday: MobileActive reports on how NPR’s work in the mobile ...KUT to manage Cactus Cafe music venue
Austin’s KUT will begin booking acts for the Cactus Cafe, a music venue and bar in the University of Texas’s student union, ...Visitors get behind-the-scenes peek at Austin City Limits construction
Pubcasters including WNET President Neil Shapiro and Malcolm Brett, PBS Board member and director of broadcasting and media innovations for Wisconsin Public ...Veterans for Peace says Wisconsin PTV outreach “militaristic”
A veterans’ group is complaining that Wisconsin Public Television’s LZ Lambeau outreach event this weekend “has become a pro-war exhibition aimed at ...Idaho PTV wilderness filming banned for being “commercial”
A forest supervisor’s decision to stop Idaho Public Television from filming in a wilderness area has sparked a U.S. Forest Service investigation, ...NewsHour’s Crystal retiring in August
Lester Crystal, the president of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, is retiring on Aug. 31, the production company of PBS NewsHour said in a statement. He will ...World project to kick off July 1
CPB President Pat Harrison announced a July 1 launch of the multiplatform World content project (Current, Sept. 8, 2009), and told station execs ...Tony Cox signs off as consortium’s midday talker ends production
Tony Cox, host of the talk show produced by the African-American Public Radio Consortium, says farewell to listeners in a post announcing ...“Cove-like” pubaffairs site coming soon to stations from PBS
Starting this fall, Frontline will be more aggressive with viewer engagement on the Web, Executive Producer David Fanning said during yesterday’s panel on ...Lasar analyzes prospects for Free Press crusade to fund public media
Free Press’s proposals to expand federal subsidies for public media may be one of many “long shot crusades” launched by the progressive ...Evans joins ranks of pubradio station chiefs
Pubradio programming veteran Jody Evans will sign on as executive director of Western North Carolina Public Radio in June. Evans, former p.d. ...Frontline will go year-round with $6 million grant from CPB
CPB is providing Frontline with a $6 million grant to allow it to produce programs year-round, according to the New York Times. The show is ...Meacham could join Stewart in Clinton’s lap, Shales retorts
In an online chat yesterday, Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales responded to complaints about a remark in his vividly critical May 11 review ...All eating green eggs and ham, no doubt
Coming to you from Austin, a whole bunch of PBSers and station folks disguised as Cats in their Hats at breakfast today. ...
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