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Pubcasting awards
Forget station budget woes and towers falling over and that pesky, moving-target DTV transition. Let’s talk awards. On Jan. 15 at the ...Your NETA, CPB, PBS, APTS update
Leaders of CPB, PBS and APTS related both pubcasting challenges and victories Jan. 15 to a crowded ballroom at the NETA conference, ...New FCC may be more Internet-tech oriented
A Washington Post analysis piece on the probable next FCC head Julius Genachowski says that President-elect Barack Obama’s choice may signal increased ...A new underwriting avenue?
Penn State Public Broadcasting is exploring taking underwriting into an additional and creative direction: Multiplatform opportunities. In a Jan. 14 session at ...Creative ways to meet DTV challenge
Pubcasters brought many questions and nearly as many suggestions for handling the DTV transition to NETA’s Jan. 14 session on the topic. ...Downsizing plan in the works at KQED
A spokesman for San Francisco’s KQED-TV/FM confirmed the gist of a Jan. 10 blog report about imminent lay-offs at the station but ...Stations must be involved in broadband future, Liroff says
“If we were starting out today as public service media,” said David Liroff, “universal broadband would be our distribution method of choice.” ...Jim Lehrer to quiz Cheney tomorrow night
Jim Lehrer will conduct an extended interview with outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney about his past eight years in office tomorrow night ...Fire at WNIT-TV in Elkhart, Ind.
A fire destroyed the programming, business and development offices of WNIT-TV on Sunday, but the broadcast facilities in a separate building were ...Worldfocus Radio debuts tonight
Worldfocus, the international news program from WNET.ORG (WNET/WLIW), is launching Worldfocus Radio on the online radio network BlogTalkRadio. The 30 minute interview ...ITVS film wins Golden Globe
“Waltz with Bashir,” an ITVS International animated doc, won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th annual Golden Globe Awards Jan. ...Obama names choice for FCC chief
President-elect Barack Obama has selected his former Harvard classmate Julius Genachowski to head up the FCC. Genachowski, 46, was chief counsel for ...Former KQEDer on pubmedia’s challenges
Media analyst and blogger David Weir, a former v.p. at KQED, mulls “What’s at Stake With Public Broadcasting.” He says although he ...APM receives $2.95 million grant
American Public Media has been granted $2.95 million for three years by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for the ...Six Silver Batons for pubcasters
NPR News won three of the 13 duPont-Columbia awards announced today by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Silver Batons recognizing excellence ...
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