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Burns’ doc inspires $500,000 grant from National Park Foundation
The National Park Foundation is providing half a million dollars to establish a nationwide grant program to reach underserved visitors, it announced ...WGBH tells paper more reductions coming
More cutbacks are on the way at WGBH, The Boston Globe reports, although station management declined to offer specifics. The station, which ...KCET revs up wildfire news coverage, advises over-the-air viewers to watch online
“Right now the fire is the boss,” a supervisor for the U.S. Forest Service tells an LA Times correspondent in this report ...‘Self-indulgent’ reports had him ‘screaming at his radio’
Greg Collard, news director at WFAE in Charlotte, released a little collard spleen this month about a couple of NPR veterans getting ...Six pubcasting towers in the line of wildfire on Mt. Wilson
The situation on Mt. Wilson, where six Los Angeles area pubcasting outlets have transmitters, is increasingly dire, according to the Los Angeles ...Pubcasting shows score Daytime Creative Arts Emmys
PBS was honored with 13 Daytime Creative Arts Emmys, the most of any network, in ceremonies on Saturday night. Included are outstanding ...Stroud disengages in Madison
Maria Alvarez Stroud, public TV’s outreach advocate for most of this millennium, is moving to a new position at the University of ...Now on PBS heading to MIPCOM
Now on PBS, a WNET production, will be presented at the prestigious MIPCOM International Film and Program Market for Television, Video, Cable ...Farewell, Reading Rainbow
Nice tributes out there to Reading Rainbow as sun sets today on the 26-year pubcasting fave (as Current reported earlier this month). ...News site posts controversial WYCC videos
A few of the videos that sparked a federal lawsuit by a former g.m. of WYCC in Chicago are now posted on ...University agrees to postpone WLIU sale
WLIU-FM 88.3 at Long Island University has secured a reprieve, if only for a two more months, reports The Southampton News. University ...CPB looking for researchers on tent-pole strategy
CPB has issued an RFP for research studies to evaluate the tent-pole pubTV programming strategy along with awareness, attitudes and usage among ...How much is Martha’s stinky chair worth? Stay tuned …
Now here’s a unique partnership: Antiques Roadshow and Martha Speaks. In the season premiere of the pup-ular PBS Kids show on Sept. ...BBC production going green, slowly
The production team on the BBC drama Being Human is taking baby steps toward going green, earning praise from the Center for ...Oh that Julia!
Pubcasters’ memories of Julia Child keep proliferating like profiteroles in Paree. Here’s one from Jim Lewis of Oregon-based fundraising consultants Lewis Kennedy ...
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