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Updates on new Native stations at Native Radio Summit
Reps from 30 Native public radio groups with new FCC construction permits for stations are invited to Native Public Media’s annual Native ...Next round of budget cuts includes reduced compensation for NPR execs, negotiations with unions
In meetings with the NPR staff today, President Vivian Schiller announced that a new round of budget cuts is needed to meet ...CPB seeks nominations for its top award for public TV leadership
March 27 is the deadline for nomination for the Ralph Lowell Award, named for the late founder of WGBH. Questions to Kimberly ...Newspaper columnist to NPR: if you don’t subscribe, why should we pledge?
After reading a memo leaked to Romenesko about NPR canceling its newspaper subscriptions, Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green fired off a terse ...CNN news exec will lead Georgia Public Broadcasting
Teya Ryan, a former CNN producer and executive, has been named president and executive director of Georgia Public Broadcasting, the network announced ...Sesame military family program airs for Pentagon reps
Pentagon officials today got a sneak peek at Coming Home: Military Families Cope With Change, a new Sesame Workshop special. On hand ...Who is the Development Professional of a year like this?
The Public Radio Association of Development Officers is soliciting nominations for its 2009 Development Professional of the Year — a station-based individual ...Funders sought to revive “Day to Day”
In a feature on the impending demise of NPR’s Day to Day, the Los Angeles Times reports that Bill Davis, president of ...FCC announces final station DTV transition dates
The FCC has released its list of stations terminated digital service on or before the June 12 deadline. Of PBS stations, 125 ...Pubcasters cover South by Southwest
NPR Music’s coverage of the 2009 South by Southwest music festival revs up in earnest tonight with a live stream of the ...Congress members try to bring back KUHT politics show
Houston-area congressmen, University of Houston and Houston PBS are in the midst of a political drama regarding KUHT’s weekly political program Red, ...AOL hires veteran journalists for political website launching next month
With its plans to launch a new political website in April, AOL is moving into the business of delivering original news content, ...This year’s Beyond Broadcast conference will be sponsored by USC
Date and place: June 3-6 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The theme: Public Service Media from Local to ...On Transom, Mitchell talks up training, recruitment of pubradio talent
Doug Mitchell, a former NPR producer who established the Next Generation Radio training program, has taken up a residency on Transom.org, where ...Lidia talks about her 50-year love of Italian food
Lidia Bastianich, host of the cooking show Lidia’s Italy on PBS, talks to The Dallas Observer about her passion for Italian food, ...
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