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FCC rules forthcoming on replacement digital translators
The FCC may soon announce rules for new replacement digital translator service, which will let stations use translators to fill DTV signal ...Salt Lake’s KCPW lays off two; CEO cleaning bathrooms
KCPW, the pubradio station in Salt Lake City, has laid off two employees and cut salaries following lax fund-raising drives. CEO and ...PRI trims staff by three, reassigns others
Public Radio International laid off three employees, dropped two vacant positions and reassigned about 10 of its 55-member staff in a restructuring ...ATC returns to China’s Sichuan Province
NPR’s Melissa Block and Andrea Hsu, key members of the All Things Considered team that delivered award-winning coverage when an earthquake devastated ...First lady talks health on Sesame Street
First lady Michelle Obama paid a visit to Sesame Street on Tuesday to tape a public service announcement as part of Sesame ...Pennsylvania pubcasting supporters rally at capitol
Public broadcasting supporters and viewers–including teachers, station employees and even toddlers–protested at the Pennsylvania state capitol in Harrisburg Tuesday in an attempt ...More viewers upset with Comcast over loss of stations
Add West Virginia PBS to the growing list of stations receiving calls from viewers upset that they suddenly can’t receive their favorite ...Nature show’s eagles still popular in Iowa
An Internet site featuring a Web camera installed in Decorah, Iowa, last summer for the Nature episode “American Eagle” continues to draw ...WEDU putting unemployed volunteers to work on creative projects
WEDU in West Central Florida has launched the Blue Sky Project, gathering a “volunteer consortium of creative professionals” to assist the station, ...Eleven Webby, People’s Voice Awards for pubcasters
NPR led pubcasters in the 2009 Webby Awards honoring the best of the Internet. It won a total of seven awards, three ...Lidia and Lopate win Beard awards
Lidia’s Italy: Sweet Napoli, cooked up by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and distributed by APT, received a James Beard Foundation Media Award among TV food ...Early sketch shows how NPR HQ could look
Hickok Cole, the architect hired by NPR to design its new headquarters, sketched this look for the tough task of combining a ...Online columnist slams Cokie Roberts
Slate’s Jack Shafer thinks NPR’s Morning Edition should dump longtime Congressional analyst Cokie Roberts. “I can think of no comparably sized media ...Antiques Roadshow coverage hits a bump
Here’s a rare occurrence: Newspaper coverage of PBS fave Antiques Roadshow is at the heart of a controversy (albeit small), in Grand ...Think your job is complicated? Try rights clearance
WGBH staffers talk about the arduous task of rights clearance in a story in today’s Boston Globe. Reclearance for program use years ...
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