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NewsHour starts up Global Health Unit
NewsHour has launched a Web site for its new Global Health Watch Unit. This week the show began a three-part series on ...Idaho pubTV digital signal coverage in jeopardy
PBS viewers in several areas of Idaho are in danger of losing Idaho Public Television’s signal. A state legislative committee just rejected ...More pubradio fundraising specials in the works
The pubradio marketing consultants who produced the end-of-year fundraising special “The Best of Public Radio 2008” plan to create a “best-of” summer ...Lehrer’s 19th novel now in stores
PBS newsman Jim Lehrer’s 19th novel, Oh, Johnny (Random House), goes on sale today. In an interview with USA Today, Lehrer details his writing ...Pubradio weekly audience approaches 33 million
The cumulative weekly audience for NPR programming and newscasts grew 7 percent to 27.5 million listeners last fall, according to an NPR ...Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania …
Here’s a Q&A with Kathleen Pavelko, CEO and president of WITF in Central Pennsylvania, in which she discusses not only her upcoming ...Kansas defeats pubcasting funding shift
The Kansas House today voted down a motion that would have transferred the state’s entire $2.1 million in public broadcasting operating grants ...Celebrating Sesame Street guest songs
The staff at MusicRadar.com (“The Place for Music Makers”) details its fave songs by guest stars during the 40 years of ...Colorado initiates special campaign
Colorado Public Radio is creating a “Drive to Thrive: Campaign of Confidence” to generate revenue to meet its revised membership budget of ...Ready to Learn grants now available
CPB has announced Ready to Learn grants so pubcasting stations can work in collaboration with state education agencies to “assess, align, and ...Ombudsman examines “UltraMind” pledge program
PBS ombudsman Michael Getler writes about the ongoing controversy over the pledge program The UltraMind Solution in his latest column, More Pledge Madness. It includes a ...WFMU showcases 14 bands at SXSW tonight
WFMU, the free-form community radio station in Jersey City, N.J., will be broadcasting live from South by Southwest this evening, beginning at ...Hear the fade down of NPR’s Day to Day and News and Notes
The last broadcasts of NPR’s Day to Day and News and Notes transmit today from NPR West, the network’s production facility in ...Pledge program prompts columns
An online column about a PBS pledge-drive special, The UltraMind Solution, has sparked a debate on Salon.com. The show offers a combination ...It’s a beautiful day for Fred Rogers news
Mr. Rogers has arrived in Pittsburgh. Well, actually it’s a 7,000-pound figure of the late PBS star. The nearly 11 foot tall ...
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