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CPB invests $505k in Michael Eric Dyson Show
CPB announced major funding to producers of the Michael Eric Dyson Show, a midday talk show for African-American audiences that launched in ...CPB board mulls getting information more directly to public
The CPB Board, meeting at headquarters in Washington, D.C., today pondered an intriguing concept: Using advertising, or even scrolling information at the ...PRX assists cross-border training for Spanish-language journalists
Public Radio Exchange has partnered to create a site for sharing community web and radio reports across borders. Its collaborator, the International ...Civil rights footage found in stations’ attic search
Stations uncovered forgotten doc footage on several civil rights movements as they prepared for the preservation phase of the CPB-funded American Archives ...Six Creative Arts Emmys go to PBS
PBS scored six honors at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday night in Los Angeles, with Masterpiece’s “Little Dorritt” the big winner ...Too Beautiful to Live: still alive and kicking
Too Beautiful to Live with Luke Burbank, a weekly evening talk show on Seattle’s KIRO-FM until its cancellation last week, attracted an ...Crain’s business newspaper reports on WNET
The regional weekly Crain’s New York has this article on its website: “At Channel 13, the financial signals are red” based on ...School district backs away from WXEL purchase
Citing a budget deficit, the Palm Beach County (Fla.) School District announced this week that it is dropping plans to buy pubstation ...NTIA considering only one more round of broadband applications
Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, told the House communications subcommittee today that the NTIA and Rural Utilities ...Database reveals pubcasting requests for broadband stimulus funds
PBS is asking for $8.7 million from broadband stimulus funds, according to a new database of first-round applicants. PBS says it will ...Report probes filmmaking ethics
Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work is the latest study from the Center for Social Media at ...Keillor hospitalized for a minor stroke
Prairie Home Companion star Garrison Keillor, 67, suffered a minor stroke over the weekend, reports Minnesota Public Radio. Doctors at the Minnesota ...Site provides stations with H1N1 information, content
CPB and PRX are cooperating on an H1N1 website for stations, fluportal.org. Local and national reports are available, as well as data ...Commerce IG looking at broadband grant program
The Inspector General’s Office of the Commerce Department is reviewing the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, ...ITVS Community Cinema turns 5 years old
Community Cinema, a free monthly screening series in more than 50 cities nationwide, begins its fifth season this month. It shows Independent ...