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AlaskaOne terminates staff, shifts to live children’s feed
KUAC/AlaskaOne is shrinking its staff by a third due to a $450,000 budget deficit, according to The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Two ...Burns requests Dust Bowl memories of Oklahomans for film
PBS filmmaker Ken Burns is asking residents of Oklahoma to share their personal stories of the Dust Bowl for an upcoming documentary ...EDCAR’s new name: PBS Digital Learning Library
PBS announced yesterday that public TV’s new classroom service will be called the PBS Digital Learning Library. The project, discussed in earlier ...Familiar metaphorical smell snagged hosting job for Tyson
In a Q&A with The Boston Globe, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (right, NOVA photo) reveals how he came to host NOVA ScienceNOW. ...G4 comments to FCC on possible ethnicity, gender ID filing requirements
Providing the FCC with a list of ethnicities and genders of individual pubcasters wouldn’t show a true picture of the role minorities ...CPB launches emergency readiness cooperative project
A collaboration between several pubcasting and communications groups is at the core of CPB’s new Station Action for Emergency Readiness (SAFER) initiative. ...Pennsylvania stations join forces for pubcasting Advocacy Day
Pennsylvania pubcasters are coming together for a state Public TV Advocacy Day tomorrow in an attempt to save state funding. They’re asking ...NYSE bells ring in “Super Why!” toys
The folks behind PBS Kids’ Super Why! recently got to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate ...Filmmakers working to weather recession
Are you filmmaker with dwindling funds? The Independent has a good tips for surviving the recession while keeping your project going. As writer Sean ...Florida writer wants to see CPB “extinct”
“Dinosaurs are extinct. So should be the CPB,” says Phil Fretz, an editorial page writer for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. Fretz ...NPR crowdsourcing project: Who is that lobbyist?
For its coverage of health care reform legislation being drafted on Capitol Hill, NPR News launched Dollar Politics, a series examining how ...$1 million Chinese jade sets “Roadshow” appraisal record
Antiques Roadshow Asian art appraiser James Callahan stunned Jinx Taylor — and made her extremely happy — when he estimated her collection of Chinese ...American Archives Pilot stations chosen
Phase I of the American Archives Pilot Program is about to begin. Oregon Public Broadcasting, overseeing the Archive project (Current, April 13) ...Think of all the stories we could share
Mediavore, the blog launched seven months ago by Todd Mundt and Graham Griffith, posted its 1001th entry today and marked the occasion ...“NOW” shows spark viewer reaction, ombudsman column
Two NOW episodes on controversial issues drew the attention of PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler as well as many viewers. One show, in ...
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