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Holiday furloughs hit WNET
Employees at WNET in New York will have three unpaid days off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, according to Crain’s New York Business. ...Kids’ writing contest revived after Rainbow’s end
PBS is picking up where Reading Rainbow left off, launching a new annual writing and drawing contest for children in cahoots with public TV ...Viewers get grouchy over “Pox News”
Now here’s an unexpected question: Did Sesame Street take a poke at Fox News? That’s what PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler is looking ...New York, New York, that Sesame town
New York magazine is celebrating 40 years of Sesame Street with a pageful of fascinating factoids in its current issue. A few: ...ITVS announces fictional exploration of a future America
Eleven fictional mini-features, each 15 minutes, created by indie filmmakers will ponder what America may look like in the future. The ITVS ...Columnist points out African-American absence on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight”
WTTW-Channel 11 in Chicago doesn’t have one African American reporter or anchor on staff, writes longtime Chicago media columnist Robert Feder on ...PBS marks four decades today
Happy birthday, Public Broadcasting Service! Yes, PBS turns 40 today. The U.S. Census Bureau took the opportunity to recognize the system and ...Colorado pubTV joins with local journalists for state news project
Colorado Public Television on Monday announced a partnership with local journalists for a news website and an investigative news show covering the ...WXEL sale hits a paperwork snag
A local group interested in buying the license for WXEL FM and TV in Palm Beach, Fla., has not submitted required documentation, ...Schiller responds to NABJ by “laying out the numbers”
NPR released its staff composition stats after the National Association of Black Journalists questioned the network’s commitment to diversity. “I couldn’t agree ...Father of pubcasting to talk about “Saving the News”
Ward Chamberlin, one of the founders of American pubcasting, is one of four journalists who will discuss “Saving the News” Wednesday evening ...Rio Grande NPR hopefuls suffer setback
Voices of the Valley, a grassroots group working to create a second pubradio station in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, has ...Fairbanks PBS switches from UHF to VHF
Reception problems with PBS affiliate KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska, prompted it to move from UHF Ch. 24 to VHF Ch. 9, at ...Mister Rogers and the birth of zombies
In case you missed it, zombie originator George Romero (the creatures were his creation in Night of the Living Dead) was a ...How Clifford was born
The books that inspired Clifford the Big Red Dog on PBS, now in its ninth season, were born of desperation in 1963, ...
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