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Emmy nominations include 26 for pubcasting
Public broadcasters scored 26 nods in primetime Emmys announced today, including American Masters and American Experience competing for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. New ...WTTW 2009 pledge drives don’t meet budget plans
A report to WTTW’s board of trustees and staff in Chicago revealed that the three pledge drives during the fiscal year ending ...Web analytics director at PBS details Web research techniques
A Google Analytics blog post provides a peek inside PBS’s Web development strategy. Amy Sample, PBS Interactive web analytics director, discusses how ...Former NPR staffer faces sentence on child-porn charges
The sentencing process began yesterday for former NPR science correspondent and editor David Malakoff, who pleaded guilty in March to a ...WNYC acquires Times Co.’s classical WQXR
A three-party radio deal announced today in New York will bring WQXR, a classical music station operated by the New York Times ...Atop Emmy news and doc nominations list: PBS with 41
PBS dominated the News & Documentary Emmy Award nominations (PDF) announced today, with 41 nods. Closest competitors are CBS with 23, and ...FCC pondering broadcast journalism
Outgoing acting FCC chair Michael Copps, in an interview with Multicast News, reveals the commission is working on a notice of inquiry ...Radio Bilingue to develop new pubmedia service for Los Angeles
CPB has awarded a $2 million grant to Radio Bilingue to design and develop a multiplatform English language program service for young ...Movie-making kids getting their big break on KCSM
KCSM in San Mateo, no longer a PBS member station due to financial woes, “plans to fill the PBS void” by airing ...Electric Company heads to weekday feed
PBS is expanding its weekly feed of The Electric Company to each weekday starting Sept. 7, reports Variety. The show, which kicked ...PBS Sotomayor coverage will also run in Spanish
PBS and impreMedia will stream NewsHour’s feed of Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor this week, translated into Spanish. The feed will ...Co-host excoriates WQED for recent layoff decisions
For three years, Pittsburgh lawyer, law professor and political analyst Joseph Sabino Mistick has co-hosted WQED’s Roddey v. Mistick, a local political debate show. ...Pubcasting provided USA Network CEO with valuable experience
Newsweek reports that USA Network CEO Bonnie Hammer’s first TV job was in 1974 at WGBH on Infinity Factory. Among her duties, the mag says: ...PRDMC crowd hears of KPLU online successes
This year’s Public Radio Development and Marketing Conference has wrapped up in San Diego. Keith York of KPBS, who covered it for ...House subcom okays $40M in station funds
Emergency funds for pubcastingcleared an important hurdle today, as the House’s Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies subcom approved ...
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