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WETA head Sharon Percy Rockefeller turned out for the annual Party in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New ...WHYY breaks ground for Learning Lab
Work on WHYY’s $12 million Learning Lab has begun at the station’s main facility in Philadelphia. The pubcaster said the focus of ...Memorial Day Concert brings PBS ombudsman letters
Michael Getler, PBS ombudsman, uncovers the back story of Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Jose Pequeno, who was featured in the PBS ...School kids rally for Erie pubstation
About 150 students, waving photos of Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Clifford the Big Red Dog, gathered today on the steps of ...HD Radio tuner added to new Zune player
A Zune media player unveiled this morning by Microsoft includes HD Radio tune-in capability among other new features. Zune HD combines a ...Radio writing “makes more sense in bubbles”
In her forthcoming book from W.W. Norton, On the Media‘s Brooke Gladstone will appear as a cartoon version of herself to tell ...“Chef’s Story” divorce goes from frying pan to fire
The divorce of Dorothy Cann Hamilton, host of the 26-part pubTV series Chef’s Story, has turned into a lawsuit involving millions ...Expect changes, GPB head says
Teya Ryan, brought on as president and executive director of Georgia Public Broadcasting in March, tells Atlanta Journal Constitution political columnist Jim Galloway that ...Alaska pubcaster trims staff, benefits
KTOO in Juneau, Alaska, is cutting three workers, eliminating 1.5 vacant positions, reducing two full-timers to part time, lowering benefits and freezing ...Mom laments end of childhood and “Clifford”
How do you know when your little boy feels all grown up? When he announces that he’s stopped watching Clifford the Big Red Dog.MPR scores $2 million-plus
The Minnesota Public Radio Advocates Network is celebrating passage of the Legacy Amendment in the state, a $2.65 million funding bill for ...Senators sign letters of support for pubcasting
Nearly a third of senators have signed letters of support for fiscal 2010 funding for public broadcasting, according to APTS. Democratic Sen. ...Processing the outrage over NPR movie review
NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard endorses the editorial policy that prohibited the naming of closeted gay politicians in a review of the documentary ...Letters flow in to PBS ombudsman on “three nons”
The PBS ombudsman’s mailbag is full of viewer comments on the “three nons” issue of sectarian programming. Stations are currently commenting on ...Pubcasters locate money for Geospatial project
Penn State Public Broadcasting’s Geospatial Revolution Project has received a $50,000 boost from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. The project explores ...
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