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ITVS picks six films from 482 in this year’s International Call
Choosing from 482 submissions from 82 countries, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) has selected six doc projects for funding, according to Screen ...V-me gets new stakeholder
PRISA (Promotora de Informaciones), a 22-country Spanish language multimedia corporation, has purchased a 12 percent stake in V-me, reports Billboard magazine. That ...PMI awards more economic project funds
The Public Media Innovation Fund today announced Round Four funding. Total grants of $205,000 for economic and financial literacy projects went to ...Kennedy Center head hits PBS for lack of arts coverage
Where is the arts programming on PBS? So asks Michael Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, on ...New WiFi radio tailored for pubradio listeners
NPR unveiled the first-ever Internet radio to offer an exclusive menu of NPR stations and programs. The “NPR Radio,” modeled on an ...Study backing subsidies for local journalism calls for sweeping pubcasting reform
Another report on the future of American journalism takes aim at public broadcasting for failing to develop the local news gathering capacity ...Low-power FM bill headed to House floor
The House Energy Commerce Committee yesterday unanimously approved the Local Community Radio Act of 2009, a bill revising channel spacing requirements in ...PMD set to launch redesigned pubmedia site
Public Media Digest has announced a redesign of the now privately owned website. Keith York of KPBS in San Diego and Garry ...SHVERA pubcasting amendment passes House committee
The Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act was okayed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday, Broadcasting & Cable reports. ...CPB Inspector General’s office issues report on KMBH violations
The CPB Inspector General’s office has issued findings from its audit of KMBH (PDF) in Harlingen, Texas, that looked into the station’s ...PBS rejects last minute appeal to re-edit “Obama’s War”
The Marine Corps leaned on PBS to remove explicit imagery from Obama’s War, the Oct. 13 Frontline documentary that took viewers into ...FCC asking for responses to Berkman Center broadband policy report
The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comments on a broadband study by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, asking, among other ...“Unconference” PubCamp gearing up for this weekend
More than 300 community organizers, bloggers, tech developers and pubmedia staffers are expected at the first national PublicMediaCamp (or “PubCamp”) this weekend ...“Bruising blow” in Pennsylvania from funding elimination, pubcaster says
Pennsylvania’s pubcasters continue to react to Gov. Ed Rendell’s elimination of state money to stations. The Pennsylvania Public Television Network agency, the ...NPR News app adds tune-in feature for live coverage
An upgrade of the NPR News app for iPhone has been released for downloads from the iTunes Store. A Listen Live feature ...
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