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Minnesota pubcasters, Georgia’s WUGA targeted in state budget battles
“I don’t want to overstate the case, but this could lead to signals going dark,” Allen Harmon, g.m. of WSDE-TV in Duluth, ...Knight Foundation, FCC broadband summit brings together policymakers
Today the Knight Foundation and the FCC are sponsoring “America’s Digital Inclusion Summit” at the Newseum in Washington, and satellite locations ...Broadcasters battle performance royalties while investment bankers court Pandora
The dispute over music performance royalties for radio airplay is heating up again, the New York Times reports. The MusicFirst Coalition, which ...Worldfocus to leave the air next month
WNET.org will discontinue Worldfocus [Word doc], its weeknight international news report as of April 2. The producing station was “a few million ...KUED sister agency receives broadband grant
Utah Education Network, a sister agency with KUED at the University of Utah, has received a $13.4 million federal Recovery Act grant ...CJR delivers progress report on Vivian Schiller’s agenda for NPR
“I’m not a command-and-control person,” Vivian Schiller tells the Columbia Journalism Review in a feature on her first year as NPR president. ...State funding cuts pose “greatest immediate danger” to pubTV service in rural areas
Of all the public TV stations facing steep cuts in state funding this year, Idaho Public Television is among those in “greatest ...Smiley organizes panel this month to discuss “black agenda”
PBS talk host and activist Tavis Smiley may have recently ended his annual State of the Black Union events, but this month ...A new twist on local history from WOSU
Columbus Neighborhoods, an engagement-focused website just launched by WOSU Public Media and the Columbus Metropolitan Library, invites visitors to explore and share ...Sprinkle … love … for digital stuff
Kachingle, an online service designed to make it easy for online media consumers to leave thank-you gifts, officially began operation with 75 ...New PubRadio Player introduces banner ads
Public Radio Player Version 2.1, an upgrade of the iPhone app developed by Public Radio Exchange last year, is now available for ...PBS brings aboard new development s.v.p.
PBS today announced a new senior vice president of development, who will also head up the PBS Foundation. Brian Reddington will help ...Rivera appointed to lead Vocalo.org
Vocalo.org has hired Silvia Rivera as executive director. Rivera, former g.m. of Chicago’s Radio Arte, is chair of the Latino Public ...KCSN drops classical music for Triple A
Los Angeles now has a full-time Triple A music station. KCSN, the 370-watt noncommercial station operated by California State University at Northridge, ...PubTV station helps folks understand meaning of old military awards
East Tennessee Public Television co-sponsored an interesting event over the weekend: A Missing Medals Recovery Program. Veterans and their family members turned ...
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