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Mister Rogers freshens up web-hood
Call it Fred 2.0 or Mister Rogers’ cyber-neighborhood: The much loved pubcasting kids show has a new web site, reports The Boston ...KPBS adding a position, changing two others
Dual-licensee KPBS in San Diego is looking for its first director of news. Also, Keith York, head programmer for 12 years, is ...Eight pubstations drop from Time Warner lineups in two states
Time Warner Cable is dropping eight of 22 public TV channels in Ohio and Kentucky. Gone are two pubTV stations from basic ...Huell Howser, indie producer extraordinaire
Indie producer Huell Howser, who’s been associated with KCET for nearly 25 years, “is a kind of natural wonder,” writes LA Times ...Pierson plans her NFCB retirement for January
Carol Pierson, president of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, told member stations this week that she’ll retire in January after 13 ...Raz gets green light as weekend ATC host
Guy Raz, best known for covering the wartime Pentagon for NPR, is graduating to official weekend host of All Things Considered. He had guest-hosted ...Erie’s WQLN scores Canadian cable victory
WQLN-TV in Erie, Pa., will continue to broadcast into London, Ontario, in an agreement reached late Tuesday with Canada’s Rogers Cable, according ...Minority media-makers in Boston!
Considering a career or freelancing in public broadcasting? The Asian American Journalists Association will hold a one-hour public panel Friday, Aug. 14 ...Reading Rainbow broadcast rights end in August
Reading Rainbow frequent winner of the national Emmy for children’s series, will leave the PBS satellite feed Aug. 28 and stations’ broadcast rights will ...Where have all the flowers gone, Pete?
Just where did folk singer Pete Seeger come up with the idea for that hammer song, anyway? Well, now you can submit ...Three more days to vote for National Radio Hall of Fame
Two from public radio compete in separate categories of the online election held by Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communication. Public voting ends ...Pubradio reporter resigns over blog kerfuffle
A personal blog in which a public radio reporter ranted about her remote Alaska town has prompted her departure from NPR member ...“Trader” doc is online, then gone
Trader: The Documentary, which aired on PBS in 1987, was momentarily posted on YouTube thanks to an anonymous user who uploaded the ...Wait wait, let’s peek into the show
All the preparation that goes into an episode of NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! is on display thanks to The ...The downsides of philanthropically supported journalism
NPR President Vivian Schiller and former NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin throw cold water on the idea that philanthropic support can save ailing ...
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