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Savidge shifts from anchor chair at Worldfocus
Martin Savidge, anchor of WNET.ORG’s Worldfocus since its launch (Current, Sept. 2, 2008), is shifting from that seat to become a ...Community Broadcasters Association closes
The Community Broadcasters Association (CBA) disbanded July 15 and has canceled its trade show scheduled for this fall, it announced last Thursday, ...Iraqi troops returned with Muppet booty in 1990 invasion
Tapes of Sesame Street episodes along with a Muppet camel were stolen by Iraq’s Republican Guard troops during their 1990 invasion of ...Early review of NPR’s new News app: “awesome”
The NPR News App for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available for free downloads from Apple’s App Store. The application, ...The cost of dismissing Ken Stern as NPR chief
NPR’s David Folkenflik reports that former NPR chief executive Ken Stern was paid more than $1.3 million in fiscal 2008, the year ...Cutting costs means cutting airshifts for KUT DJs
Longtime music hosts Paul Ray and Larry Monroe lost airtime when Austin’s KUT revamped its evening schedule, and their fans are mighty ...Long Island’s WLIU up for sale
Long Island University is looking to sell WLIU, an NPR News and jazz station broadcasting from its campus in Southhampton, N.Y. The ...Arbitron analyzes ratings trends by pubradio format
Public Radio Today 2009, Arbitron’s analysis of public radio listening patterns and demographics, digs into Fall 2008 diary and Portable People Meter ...Senate okays Patricia Cahill for CPB board
Patricia Cahill was approved by the Senate Friday to serve on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board. She’s g.m. of KCUR-FM in ...PBS posts interviews from press tour
PBS has compiled a nifty list of all 30 or more interviews its rep conducted with TV producers, stars and other bigwigs ...Rock Hall honors Austin City Limits with landmark designation
Austin City Limits in October will be designated an historic rock and roll landmark site by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and ...CPB reaches new pact for webcasting royalties
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will pay nearly $2.9 million in webcasting royalties to SoundExchange under an agreement approved yesterday by the ...NPR gets flak for what Liasson said on FOX
When NPR political correspondent Mara Liasson compared the government’s Cash for Clunkers program to a “mini-Katrina,” her poorly chosen words violated NPR’s ...Ed Walker strolls into the Radio Hall of Fame
Ed Walker, locally famous deejay and now host of WAMU’s Sunday night nostalgic The Big Broadcast, was elected to the National Radio ...Viewers may move to front of the line in PBS funding credits
PBS head Paula Kerger said it’s considering shifting that well-known phrase ” … and viewers like you … ” to the front ...
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