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NJN starts planning departure from state oversight
The New Jersey Network is beginning its transition to an independent nonprofit. Republican Gov. Chris Christie called for the pubcasters to sever ...APM affiliate agrees to buy FM in Palm Beach
After trying for five years to sell its public TV/radio combo in Palm Beach, Fla., Barry University has unloaded the FM station ...Nonprof news orgs and pubcasters take part in investigative reporting symposium
Pubcasters were well represented at the fourth annual Reva and David Logan Investigative Reporting Symposium this past weekend, sponsored by Berkeley University’s ...San Mateo’s KCSM rallying after serious funding woes
A donor has stepped forward with $400,000 to help struggling KCSM-TV/FM in San Mateo, Calif., reports the San Matean. The station is ...Jim DeRogatis brings his sound opinions to Vocalo.org
Music journalist Jim DeRogatis is leaving the Chicago Sun-Times to take a full-time teaching position at Columbia College Chicago and take up ...Get a peek at “Need to Know”
The promo for WNET’s new Need to Know is up, check it out here. The weekly news show premieres May 7. That ...Broadcasters still wary of “voluntary” spectrum giveback
TV execs weren’t very reassured after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s speech to the National Association of Broadcasters last week in Las Vegas, ...Virgina pubcasters latest to face state funding phase-out
“Gov. Bob McDonnell is gunning for Big Bird,” says the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. The GOP governor wants to phase out funding to the Community ...CPB requests $604 million for fiscal 2013
CPB President Pat Harrison appeared on the Hill this week to make the agency’s fiscal 2013 advance appropriation request of $604 million. ...FCC adviser to depart for post at Aspen Institute
Blair Levin, President Obama’s National Broadband Plan adviser, is leaving his work at the FCC for the Aspen Institute, Broadcasting & Cable ...PBS ombudsman’s weekly Mailbag tackles World War II bombing campaign
Michael Getler, PBS ombudsman, is warning readers that this week’s column is long. But if you’re interested in the history of America’s ...IdahoPTV loses some state funds this year, but gains a bit in FY11
Idaho Public Television has survived a proposed phase-out of its state funding (Current, Jan. 25, 2010) and actually ended up with a ...You say you want a revolution….
A new website titled Revolution PBS has drawn the attention of pubcaster/blogger John Proffitt. Proffitt notes that whatever person or group writes ...Monsignor out as g.m. at KMBH in Harlingen, Texas
Monsignor Pedro Briseño, the controversial g.m. of dual licensee KMBH in Harlingen, Texas, (Current, March 16, 2009 and May 1, 2008) has ...It’s opening day for new WNET studio at Lincoln Center
WNET/Thirteen’s new studio at Lincoln Center opens today, reports the New York Times. The glass-front facility on the corner of West 66th ...
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