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ITVS launches new blog
ITVS has launched the blog “Beyond the Box,” an extension of its monthly newsletter by the same name. The blog/website will serve ...DTV history analysis
Analysis of the DTV transition problems continues. Here’s a good piece from Congressional Quarterly reminding readers that the transition has been contemplated ...Muppets go green for Earth Day
Sesame Workshop is releasing an environmental-theme DVD, “Sesame Street: Being Green,” on Earth Day, April 7. On that link, don’t miss the ...New Obama bio from Frontline
On January 20, inauguration day, Frontline will broadcast Dreams of Obama, a new personal and political biography from producer Michael Kirk that ...Feb. 17: What the heck just happened?
Since 2005, a whole slew of us — consumers, manufacturers, public officials — have been learning about or working toward digital TV ...Digital radio spreading worldwide
A panel of experts in Britain recommended last month that the country begin switching off the analog radio airwaves around 2017 and ...It’s FCCer vs. FCCer on DTV date
For those of you keeping score at home, please mark one more for, one more against moving the DTV transition date. Add ...Public safety officials oppose DTV delay
Add police and fire chiefs to the growing list of folks weighing in on a possible delay of the DTV transition date, ...MPR asks St. Paul for assurance regarding light-rail plans
Minnesota Public Radio is locked in a dispute with city planners in its hometown of St. Paul over a proposed light-rail line ...Past FCCers join call for DTV date push-back
Former FCCers William Kennard and Michael Powell support delaying the Feb. 17 DTV transition. In an op-ed piece in the New York ...Secretary of Culture idea gets grassroots support
Former National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman William R. Ferris’ idea for a Cabinet-level position to oversee the arts and humanities ...Alabama net axes show, plans layoffs
Alabama Public Television will cancel a long-running public affairs show and lay off other staffers as it aims to offset state budget ...KPCC to open D.C. bureau
KPCC in Pasadena, Calif., will open a news bureau in Washington, D.C., making it the first public radio station in the country ...Cooney Center calls for mobile learning strategy
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop has released a report, Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning, ...NTIA opposes DTV date move
Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration insists the digital transition can and should occur Feb. 17 as planned. Its Jan. 8 statement ...
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