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PBS videos and games increase literacy, research shows
A study shows the literacy skills of low-income children measurably increased after their participation in a curriculum using educational video and interactive ...Burns barnstorms a year-plus for National Parks
Ken Burns’s 4-year-old daughter Olivia eats her meals atop a U.S. map so she can track her father. The documentarian has been ...Nicole Childers heads content development for L.A. Public Media
Nicole Childers, former executive producer of NPR’s News and Notes, will lead content development for the L.A. Public Media Service, a CPB-backed ...Pennsylvania zeroes out pubcasting funds
Gov. Ed Rendell’s signature Friday on the Pennsylvania state budget eliminated the state’s pubcasting subsidy of $11.3 million. Ramifications at the eight ...New “Upstairs, Downstairs” coming
The Beeb is remaking the wildly popular show on PBS in the 1970s, Upstairs, Downstairs. Stars Jean Marsh and Dame Eileen Atkins return in ...Local group buys WLIU from university
Long Island University has agreed to sell the license for NPR affiliate WLIU to local Peconic Public Broadcasting. A statement on the ...Senate rebuff McCain bid to zero out PTFP
The Senate yesterday defeated an amendment by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to eliminate $20 million for PTFP from the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill, ...PBS in talks with NatGeo for exclusive Obama documentary
National Geographic Television is filming the daily life of President Barack Obama over the next four months for an exclusive documentary, and ...Almost a year into recession, pubcasting lost $167 million in investments and “other” revenues
After almost a year of recession, the public TV and radio system lost $167.7 million in its “all other” revenue category, CPB ...PBS doc inspires request for pardons
Harvard scholar and PBS documentarian Henry Louis Gates Jr. is assisting radio host Tom Joyner in his efforts to have South Carolina ...WNET exploring relocation
WNET is looking to leave its home of 10 years at 450 W. 33rd Street in Manhattan, according to a real estate ...Viewers vent on religion in National Parks series
Michael Getler’s latest column offers viewer insights into the National Parks series. The PBS ombudsman reports that most letters he received were ...DISH pubcasting carriage deal nears
At a Senate Communications Subcommittee meeting today, reps of DISH network and the Association of Public Television Stations said they expect a ...ACL now a rock landmark
KLRU in Austin, Texas, has posted video of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dedication ceremony onOct. 1 for its longtime ...Digital Think In to explore NPR’s future
NPR has invited 60 “thought leaders” in digital media and technology to share their ideas for its future as a news organization. ...
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