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Time Warner cable customers in York, Maine, are peeved that two Boston television stations, including WGBH, have been dropped from their familiar ...NPR Members meeting goes electronic
NPR hopes to boost participation in its annual Members Meeting by providing a forum for online participation via WebEx, the Web conferencing ...More news on upcoming PBS NewsHour
Here’s a transcript of NewsHour e.p. Linda Winslow’s remarks at PBS Showcase detailing the many changes coming to the show in the fall. ...Kerger addresses membership criteria
PBS chief Paula Kerger, in her State of the System address to pubcasters at the PBS Showcase yesterday, touched on the ongoing ...A bright future for WBGH mural
WGBH’s digital mural is back. “We are just very, very happy,” said WGBH spokeswoman Lucy Sholley. This is a tale of a ...A new NewsHour coming
Big changes at NewsHour. No, the rumors aren’t true: Jim Lehrer isn’t stepping down. Not exactly. What will happen is he’ll have a ...PBS hopes to grow news content with cross-pollination
Ever pondered the possibilities of news shows on PBS such NewsHour, Nightly Business Report and Frontline co-mingling resources and cooperating to produce content? That was a ...TV critic optimistic about pubTV fall shows
Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik predicts a strong fall pubTV lineup, despite ongoing funding problems. ” … Even in this time of downsizing ...New investigative reporting unit to focus on California
The Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, Calif., is launching a statewide multimedia reporting initiative with funding from the James Irvine and ...Iranian court suspends Saberi’s sentence
Roxana Saberi is to be released from Iranian prison today. The freelance Iranian-American journalist, who has reported for NPR and other major ...Euro pubTV bigwigs ponder rubber chickens
Pubcasters in Europe are getting serious about comedy. Some 500 met in Lucerne, Switzerland, this week, according to The Associated Press, “to ...Pubradio host lives long and prospers
The local Morning Edition host at WCAI in Cape Cod, Dan Tritle, sure is looking forward to the new Star Trek movie. So he’s a Trekkie? ...It’s two for one for Burns in Florida
Talk about multitasking. As part of a whirlwind, 45-plus city promotional tour for National Parks, Ken Burns threw out the first pitch at the ...20th annual concert coming to PBS
Here’s a preview of the “The National Memorial Day Concert.” It’s the 20th annual airing of the presentation from the capitol on ...Pubcasters request translators to cover DTV gaps
Three pubTV stations have applied to the FCC for a new class of translators that will help them fill in DTV coverage ...
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