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Idaho governor proposes phasing out statewide pubTV funding
Idaho Gov. C.L. Otter is looking to end funding for the Idaho Public Television statewide network over the next four years starting ...Fleming, former CPB head, dies at 93
Robben Wright Fleming, former president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, died Jan. 11 at age 93 in Ann Arbor, Mich., ...“Funky chickens visit KLRU”
Really. Check out the Austin, Texas, station’s blog for the wacky video. Guess what song accompanies it?Learn more about Public Media Corps in webinar tomorrow
The National Black Programming Consortium is hosting a webinar on its Public Media Corps initiative at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The social media ...NewsHour correspondent to help judge Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival today announced that Jeffrey Brown, a senior correspondent with PBS NewsHour, is on the 2010 jury. Brown will ...Austin’s own Spoon to headline NPR Music SXSW showcase
In anticipation of its opening night showcase at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, NPR Music is offering an advance ...CPB bolsters ongoing pubradio station philanthropy project
CPB is pumping more funding into its ongoing pubradio Leadership for Philanthropy effort, it announced today. The project, managed by Development Exchange ...Three Alaska pubcasters appear to be merging
Alaska’s three largest pubcasting stations are moving toward a formal partnership. General managers from dual-licensees KUAC in Fairbanks, KTOO in Juneau and ...Lessons from “Learn to Speak Tea Bag”
“For nearly two months, the animated political cartoon sat on NPR.org virtually unnoticed. And then someone discovered it, was disgusted and launched ...Study examines Baltimore news media, including PBS, NPR members
Maryland Public Television and NPR affiliates WEAA and WYPR in Baltimore were part of the study “How News Happens” by the Pew ...System lags in multimedia world, says pubmedia’s Jessica Clark
When it comes to new media, Jessica Clark blogs, “the [pubcasting] system as a whole can barely make it onto the mat. ...University considering sale of Pittsburgh’s WDUQ
Duquesne University is looking to sell Pittsburgh’s WDUQ, an NPR News and jazz station. “Over the years, DUQ has evolved into a ...Gettogethers get schedules together
Nearly all of the year’s major public broadcasting conferences have been dated up. Latest to be announced was the Music Personnel Conference, ...HuffPost mistakenly reports “convergence” of pubcasting and Bush organization
So. Will the George W. Bush Institute “co-produce a public television show . . . in a rare convergence of public broadcasting ...Pubradio growth strategies for the new decade
A report released today by Maryland-based Station Resource Group proposes new audience service goals for public radio in the next decade and ...
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