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Julia’s book sales: proof of the power of movie publicity
If anyone doubts the power of Hollywood and its well-trained media machine, note what the New York Times reports this morning: Within days after ...You might attend SXSW next March?
Vote by Sept. 4 on panels you’d like to attend at any of the three South by Southwest conference-festivals to be held ...Judicial Watch sues FCC over DTV delay documents
A self-described conservative watchdog group is suing the FCC to release documents related to the delayed DTV transition. Judicial Watch’s Freedom of ...A return to culture wars ahead?
Documentary filmmaker Deborah Kaufman writes in The San Francisco Chronicle of her fears that what she sees as the increasing attacks on controversial films ...9/11 conspiracy doc is a top pledge show for Denver
Denver’s KBDI-Channel 12 has stirred up local discussion with recent pledge content. Joanne Ostrow, arts and entertainment columnist for The Denver Post, writes that ...Pubradio’s Diane Rehm recuperating from a fall
Talk show host Diane Rehm fell and cracked her pelvis yesterday and will be off the air for several weeks. Guest host ...Stations receive STEM content grants
CPB has granted nine pubTV stations a total of nearly $900,000 to create content on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) that ...Julia Child, toaster-oven chef
So many Americans have fond memories of Julia Child’s legendary cooking shows on PBS. But Bohdan Zachary, chief programmer at KCET, is ...What does it mean to be a “NextGen” station?
The availability of station webstreams through iPhone apps such as the Public Radio Player “ramps up the pressure on local broadcast stations ...What’s on magazine covers? Faces!
“Faces are how I sold 60 Minutes,” recalls the late Don Hewitt in an interview being reaired by KCTS in Seattle this week. “I ...La, la, la, LINOLEUM….
On Nov. 10, exactly 40 years after Sesame Street‘s debut, Sesame Workshop will release Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days, with ...Chance meeting charms PBS Hawaii staff
PBS Hawaii staffers were treated to a meeting of two divas in the station lobby recently, reports President and CEO Leslie Wilcox ...Twelve WUFT employees riffed in Gainesville
Campus-wide lay-offs announced yesterday by the University of Florida include 12 employees of Gainesville’s WUFT-TV/FM, the public broadcasting outlets that are being ...PBS cancels Dev Con, folds it into broader spring conference
With registrations for the upcoming PBS Development Conference running “very low,” network President Paula Kerger said network management made the”extremely difficult decision” ...Sesame to introduce several new shows at confab in France
Perky little Abby Cadabby gets a 3D animated makeover in her new Abby’s Flying Fairy School, which Sesame Workshop will ...
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