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Pubradio staffers score free international vacations
Two lucky pubcasters heard their names called for prizes at the recent Public Radio Development and Marketing Conference in San Diego. And ...Six stations get new Ready to Learn money
CPB today announced funding for new statewide Ready to Learn projects. Six pubTV stations will work with state education agencies to provide ...Boland departing PBS to return to California: Update
John Boland, PBS’s first chief content officer (Current, June 26, 2006), will leave the network after three years to return to California at ...Nuptial couple gets the WGBH studio blues
WGBH’s One Guest Street studios have hosted celebs from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to ’80s rockers Duran Duran. ...Sports added to Omaha’s classical KVNO
News that Omaha’s KVNO, a full-time classical music station, will begin airing live sports coverage in August has prompted a backlash among ...Sesame president to appear at Cap Hill hearing on Children’s TV Act
Gary Knell, president of Sesame Workshop, will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday at a hearing examining the Children’s TV Act, ...Independent Lens on PBS gets Young@Heart TV premiere
Young@Heart, the award-winning 2007 documentary about a spunky chorus of hip senior citizens, will have its television premiere during the fall/winter 2009 season ...Henry Louis Gates arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard professor and longtime PBS doc producer, was arrested last Thursday trying to force open the locked front ...PBS ombudsman eyes Moyers’ health-care show
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler’s column today focuses on journalistic credibility, citing both the Washington Post’s recent lapse on “pay for access” salons, ...NPR compiles Cronkite’s radio essays online
From 2001 to 2005, newsman Walter Cronkite, who died last week, contributed occasional essays to NPR. Now listeners can hear those once ...Blogger angry over Monsanto underwriting on Marketplace
American Public Media’s Marketplace should dump Monsanto sponsorship, writes blogger Delores M. Bernal on News Junkie Post. Bernal contends the firm produces ...Norfolk’s WHRO to open new Williamsburg studio
WHRO, a dual-licensee in Norfolk, Va., covering the Hampton Roads area, is opening a satellite studio in Williamsburg. The studio, in operation ...Monday NewsHour to feature Lehrer’s Obama interview
Jim Lehrer will interview President Barack Obama Monday afternoon at the White House, according to NewsHour. Their conversation, touching on healthcare reform, the ...“Spurious signals” trouble Colorado’s KUNC
KUNC in Greeley, Colo., is dealing with “an unauthorized, local signal that has been sending out brief, spurious signals” and disrupting the ...No prison time for former NPR staffer charged in child porn case
Former NPR science editor David Malakoff, who pleaded guilty in March to a felony child pornography possession charge, will not go to ...
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