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CPB to invest in local news collaboratives for pubradio
CPB is offering grants to public radio stations to expand local news gathering and digital platform reporting capabilities. In a request ...Latin American Discovery Channel to carry Sesame Workshop show
Sesame Street‘s Abby Cadabby will host 3, 2, 1, ¡VAMOS!, a new half-hour preschool show starting June 22 on Discovery Kids Latin ...Can Planet Money be a money maker?
Negotiations over the future of Planet Money, the NPR blog and podcast on global economics, include the option of operating it as ...PBS board okays “three nons” requirement
In a compromise with the small number of PBS stations running religious programming, the PBS board today approved a membership requirement that ...Doug Mitchell honored for pubradio journalism training
Public Radio News Directors Inc. presented its Leo C. Lee Award to former NPR producer Doug Mitchell. The award, which honors distinguished ...“Saddle Up” launches new website
PubTV’s Saddle Up with Dennis Brouse has a new website. It’s designed to be an educational tool for horse enthusiasts. Brouse said in a ...“Bruno” staffer cited PBS as possible destination for film
Uh-oh. First young man Michael Kinsell alleged a link to PBS to advance his plans to become the next Mister Rogers. Now ...FCC handles flood of 700,000 DTV callers this week
More than 317,000 calls came into the FCC’s toll-free DTV help line yesterday (PDF), the agency reported, as stations said farewell to ...WFUV covering Bonnaroo Music Festival
WFUV’s Rita Houston will present special coverage of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on tonight’s edition of The Whole Wide World, ...Suffice to say FCC’s DTV call center is busy
Reporter John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable decided to see for himself how things were going at the FCC’s DTV call center. ...Pubcasting, unplugged
How did your station celebrate today’s milestone DTV transition? At PBS affiliate WGVU-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich., “dignitaries, photographers and reporters jammed ...Coming soon: Public broadcasting funding votes in House
This week the House Appropriations Committee okayed its subcommittee discretionary allocations for FY2010, reports APTS in its weekly legislative update. That’s the ...Anti-LPFM arguments refuted in Hill hearing
Support for easier licensing standards for Low Power FM stations is growing in Congress and at the FCC, according to reports [here ...Aspirations that go beyond driveway moments
An “essay to read and keep“: Margaret Low Smith of NPR describes the basic ingredients needed for public radio to “become ...Markey takes a moment to mark today’s final DTV transition
Now that the absolutely final DTV transition is really here, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) is looking back over the long, laborious process ...
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