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Former FCC Chair Hundt says decision to favor Internet over TV was made in ’94
In a speech that he described as “confession or admission,” former FCC Chair Reed Hundt yesterday told a Columbia University audience that ...Sesame Workshop, PBS, get passing grades on children’s food marketing report card
Sesame Workshop has received a grade of C and PBS a C+ from the Center for Science in the Public Interest on ...Programming veteran Ron Hull details his first production
Here’s an interesting video interview from the collegiate News Net Nebraska with longtime pubcaster Ron Hull, a passionate advocate for cultural ...Fred Rogers Center to host confab on educational technology
More than 60 national leaders in education, research, technology, policy and children’s media will meet March 22 and 23 at the Fred ...Satellite carriage bill passes Senate, could be law by Easter Congressional break
The Senate yesterday passed the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act. The Association of Public Television Stations had backed passage of the ...Reeling from funding losses, WQUB seeks partnership with commercial operator
WQUB in Quincy, Ill., plans to dismiss its professional on-air staff as of June 1 and turn most of its operations over ...Pubmedia Chatters stifled by 140 characters now have Google Group
A Google group for pubmedia collaboration has sprung from the ongoing Pubmedia Chat Tweetfests on Monday evenings. Chris Beer, a web developer ...Madeleine Brand to helm new KPCC show
Pasadena’s KPCC hired Madeleine Brand to host a new daily news magazine launching later this spring. The yet-to-be named show will bring ...House committee approves bill to extend spectrum inventory deadline
The FCC and National Telecommunications and Information Administration would have four years instead of two to complete a spectrum inventory under a ...“War room” was integral to Detroit PubTV’s capital campaign efforts
A “war room” with white boards, dollar amounts and donor name targets helped Detroit Public Television/WTVS close out its 2009 $22 million ...Idaho PTV dodges state funding phase-out
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee of the Idaho legislature yesterday voted 19-0 to cut only 16 percent of Idaho Public Television’s state funding, ...NewsHour gets CPB grant for Student Reporting Lab
CPB has given the PBS NewsHour a $300,000 grant for a Student Reporting Lab project in six schools nationwide, reports Television Broadcast. ...South Dakota pubcasting faces 2 percent state funding cut
South Dakota is the latest state threatening cutbacks to pubcasting as part of overall budget tightening. A 2 percent cut to South ...Wednesday webinar to explore Google broadband experiment
Pubcasters can learn more about Google’s Fiber for Communities during a webinar Wednesday sponsored by American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio and the ...In the Loop, a NextGen show from MPR, ends run
Minnesota Public Radio has canceled production of In the Loop, a show that migrated from the broadcast airwaves to engage its audience ...
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