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The man inside Big Bird and Oscar speaks
Caroll Spinney, 75, has played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street for the past 40 years. As Sesame Street turns 40, ...FCC issues more DTV transition directions
TV stations have until March 17 to tell the FCC when they will be transitioning to DTV before June 12. The commission ...Online chat to focus on courting individual donors
How to better appeal to individual donors is the topic of the next online discussion hosted by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Click ...Obama Web strategist says ditch the e-newsletters
Thomas Gensemer, the brain behind then-Sen. Barack Obama’s Web-based election campaign, says nonprofits should forgo email newsletters and focus on short, more ...Muppets pop up on hot blog topics
The economic stimulus package was the biggest topic in the blogosphere last week, but guess what else showed up? Some 6 percent ...BBC doc focuses on Kitchen Sisters
BBC Radio’s World Service offers an audio feature by Alan Hall about the Kitchen Sisters, Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson. “Programme one ...Most DTV callers complain about reception
Callers to the FCC with DTV-related issues complained most about technical and reception problems, according to documents from the commission. Around a ...Using social networking for fund raising
If your station is considering using social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace) for fund raising, check out the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s recent ...Former NPR prez named journalism dean
Kevin Klose has been named dean of University of Maryland’s journalism school. Klose will oversee the school as it revamps its curriculum ...Your station’s DTV transition experience so far…
Did your pubTV station turn off its analog broadcasts yesterday? If so, Current would like to hear how things went. Did you ...Pubcasting job, salary cuts continue; WNED is latest victim
The Western New York Public Broadcasting Association is cutting staff and salaries. WNED’s eight corporate officers took a 7.5 percent pay cut; ...Pubradio correspondents win Polk Award
Two pubcasters are sharing a Polk Award. Alex Blumberg of “This American Life,” produced by Chicago Public Radio and distributed by PRI, ...Virgina pubcasting in danger of losing funding
The Virginia House Appropriations Committee wants to cut all contributions by the commonwealth to public broadcasting stations. The Senate Finance Committee and ...Blogger bonkers over PubRadio Tuner
The Public Radio Tuner has a big fan in blogger Wade Roush, chief correspondent at Xconomy. “Since my commute to work is ...Williams’ First Lady comments prompt critical e-mails to NPR
NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard examines the roles Juan Williams plays on both her network and Fox News, where he recently said Michelle ...
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