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Town hall webinar tomorrow to focus on broadband funding
StimulatingBroadband.com is offering a free webcast, “Broadband Stimulus National Town Hall Meeting,” starting at 11 a.m. Eastern tomorrow. It’s sponsored by the ...KCET show partners with Annenberg School journalists
KCET’s SoCal Connected today announced a partnership with the News21 team at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Tomorrow ...Meet him in St. Louis, Louis: Proffitt to depart Alaska
Pubcaster and blogger John Proffitt is leaving his home of nine years, Anchorage, Alaska, and venturing back to the Lower 48 and ...Longtime pubcaster Fred Flaxman writes memoirs
Longtime producer and station exec Fred Flaxman has written a “tongue-in-cheek” memoir of his life in broadcasting, Sixty Slices of Life … on ...Currently, Current is closed
Current’s office in suburban Washington, D.C., remains shuttered as another severe winter storm is battering the region. This week’s issue also is delayed. ...Civil rights concert moves to tonight, will run Thursday on PBS
Due to the impending arrival of yet another massive winter storm, the White House has moved a concert of civil rights music ...FCC should preserve accountability journalism, advisor says
Steven Waldman, senior advisor to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, says saving journalim “is not our job.” However, “we are looking at it ...“I holler every day, ‘I’m a worm, hip hip hurray!’ “
Sesame Street gets a new neighbor soon: Carrie Underworm, who looks and sounds very much like country superstar Carrie Underwood. She’ll debut Thursday. Get ...APTS Capitol Hill day postponed
APTS Capitol Hill Day has been canceled for now. Spokesperson Stacey Karp said that due to the blizzard, there’s a good chance ...Tampa pubcasting president gets nod for International Broadcasting Bureau post
The White House yesterday nominated Dick Lobo, president and chief executive of Tampa PBS station WEDU-Ch. 3, to head the International Broadcasting ...Text-giving for pubcasters: learn from those who’ve tried it
Text donations for disaster relief in Haiti topped $35 million earlier this week, and donors’ sudden willingness to use mobile phones ...Native tribes get priorities for radio licenses, FCC rules
The FCC announced today it is giving Native American tribes a priority (PDF) for broadcast radio licenses in their communities. The FCC ...“Way We Get By” film wins honor from AARP Magazine
The Way We Get By, an indie doc produced in association with WGBH Lab, has won best documentary in AARP Magazine’s annual ...
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