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Employees grumbling over KQED head’s salary
The nearly $400,000 salary of KQED president Jeff Clarke is creating discontent within the station, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. That’s a pretty good ...NPR will join PBS managers at meeting
Reps from NPR will be attending this year’s PBS General Managers’ Planning Meeting May 11 in Baltimore. The meeting coincides with the ...Schiller favors planned NPR.org fundraiser over national on-air appeals
Top NPR personalities have proposed that the network mount a national pledge drive to help close its widening budget gap. There is ...Royal succession: Age of Kings begat Masterpiece
The first big British TV import and a model for PBS’s Masterpiece, the BBC’s 15-part An Age of Kings, is available now for the first ...Boucher details work ahead
Rick Boucher (D-Va.), new head of the House Communications, Technology & Internet Subcommittee, recently laid out his priorities for Broadcasting & Cable ...Texas college ponders future of station
Odessa (Texas) College trustees are mulling radio partnerships as an attempt to keep its public broadcasting station on the air, according to The ...OTM issues apology, correction on “Infinite Mind” show
On the Media has apologized for what it called a “lapse in journalistic judgment” concerning a November 2008 story on the public radio show ...Idaho g.m. testifies on the Hill about DTV transition woes
Peter Morrill, g.m. of Idaho Public Television, told a House subcommittee today that public broadcasting fund cuts threatened the completion of the ...PBS veep mulls more British programs
Will PBS be featuring ever-more British content? Senior v.p. for programming John Wilson tells Broadcast Now, a British magazine, that the economy ...WQED head to ask for further salary reduction
George Miles Jr., president of WQED in Pittsburgh, has already taken a hefty salary cut and is asking his board to slice ...OPB to oversee American Archive initiative
Oregon Public Broadcasting will develop the pilot project for the American Archive program, CPB announced today. The archive will preserve content from ...New Hampshire cuts five jobs
New Hampshire Public Television announced five layoffs today. President Peter Frid said the cuts are part of a restructuring. Several other vacant ...CPB unveils multimillion initiative backing economic coverage and collaborations
CPB announced details of its Public Service Media Economic Response Initiative, a package of grants investing in programming and station-based projects that ...Another college station looking for a new operator
Oregon Public Broadcasting may take over operations of KMHD, a jazz and NPR News station in Gresham, Ore., under a partnership agreement ...Masterpiece wins “Conscience” award from Emmy academy
The PBS series Masterpiece has won a Television with a Conscience award last week for its God on Trial program. The honor ...
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