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Station cuts continue, Wisconsin hit
Wisconsin Public Television is cutting five positions. Gone are three unfilled slots, and two contracts that will not be renewed, James Steinbach, ...APTS Twittering, Facebooking
Now pubcasters can keep up with the Association of Public Television Stations through its Twitter account and Facebook page. Jeffrey Davis, vice ...CPB DDF grant info available
CPB has announced it will be accepting applications for Round 14 Digital Distribution Fund grants from qualified noncommercial educational TV licensees for ...NPR appoints new operations/ finance senior veep
Debra Delman has been named NPR’s senior vice president for strategic operations and finance, the network announced today. Since 2005, she has ...Site monkeys around with humor research including pubradio shows
Parody site CAP News (motto: “Are you in on the joke?”) “reports” that scientists investigating the origins of human laughter now know ...U of Florida media consolidation affects pubradio stations
University of Florida’s public radio station will soon begin airing more news in addition to its current classical music, according to The ...Three students’ work honors Fred Rogers’ spirit
Three $10,000 awards have gone to students for work on children’s media projects in the spirit of Fred Rogers. The annual scholarships ...LPFM advocates score victory
A federal appeals court turned down a lawsuit that would have stopped the FCC from protecting low-power FM stations from full-power station ...Viewers continue to react to ‘We Shall Remain’
Lots of letters in the PBS ombudsman’s mailbag this week, including more “dealing with challenges arising from the five-part American Experience series ...Actor REALLY thinks PBS should have Tonys show
The Tony Awards belong on PBS, actor Kevin Spacey told New York Post theater columnist Michael Riedel. In fact, Spacey said: “The ...KRVS transitions into new studio
KRVS-FM, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette licensee, has a new home on campus. Spiffy new equipment includes Wheatstone Evolution 5 consoles ...PBS: Please Buy Stuff?
That’s what Steve Bornfeld dubs the pubcaster in his Mediology column for The Las Vegas Review-Journal. He’s troubled by pledge shows such ...Mashable casts NPR as the “future of mainstream media”
NPR’s three-pronged strategy to extend local coverage, engage audiences via social media and provide ubiquitous access to its content is helping the ...What are foundations backing in journalism?
Since 2005, they’ve put nearly $128 million into news and journalism initiatives and experiments, says a report this week from J-Lab: The ...HoustonPBS is now a bee keeper
Some happy pubcasting news: HoustonPBS is the first pubTV station to locally sponsor the Scripps National Spelling Bee, after The Houston Chronicle ...
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