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Giddyup to sign up to win a new saddle
A free saddle each month for the next year is coming from Saddle Up with Dennis Brouse. That’s the pubTV series ...Central Michigan University bids for WFUM TV in Flint
WFUM TV in Flint, Mich., may get a new owner: Central Michigan University, according to Central Michigan Life, the university newspaper. The ...Combative letter heading to auction, thanks to “Roadshow”
A great-grandmother in Rockford, Ill., received a surprising appraisal from Antiques Roadshow and has decided to auction off her treasure: A antagonistic ...Former Microsoft sales exec to lead National Public Media
Stephen Moss, an online marketing executive with a background in print media, is the new president and c.e.o. of National Public Media, ...Sesame Workshop explores digital learning
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, along with several partners, is sponsoring a Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age forum ...WGBH’s Access Group signs captioning, narrative deals
The Media Access Group at WGBH will be creating special captioning and narrative material for several movies from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment ...The world’s least hospitable hotelier returns
Fawlty Towers — the 1970s BBC show that still runs on 24 pubTV stations nationwide — is now available in a DVD ...Sesame Street aiming for Gaza
Sesame Street wants to introduce Big Bird and his friends to the Gaza Strip, according to Agence France Presse. The area is ...Two Frontline shows prompt comments to PBS ombudsman
The latest column from Michael Getler, PBS ombudsman, focuses on two Frontline programs: “Obama’s War,” which continues to draw mail after its ...Moline’s WQPT trades up to a bigger university licensee
Rather than going independent, the Quad Cities’ fiscally distressed pubTV station, WQPT, will move its license to a different higher-ed institution. Now ...Reality comes to FCC
It’s safe to say this isn’t your typical FCC official: Yul Kwon, winner of the reality show Survivor: Cook Islands in 2006, ...News cooperative for Chicago
A hybrid news organization committed to public service journalism will begin producing coverage of the Chicago region next month. The Chicago News ...“Santa Fe” is not so hard to rhyme, but how about “KSFR?”
An editorial in the Santa Fe New Mexican this week salutes community radio station KSFR-FM “for the stroke of inspiration that brings some added ...Arizona pubTV hosts two Supreme Court justices for live broadcast
Arizona Public Media is offering viewers a rare event: A chance to witness two sitting Supreme Court justices talking about the Constitution. ...Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Australia?
Big Bird and his Sesame Street buddies are taking to the skies on Australia’s largest airline, Qantas. From Dec. 1, 2009, through ...
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