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“Grow the Audience” reports on classical music station performance
Education levels within a market are the best predictor of classical music station performance, according to the latest report [PDF] from Grow ...Eyeing ‘painful’ cuts ahead, Maine pubcasters convene town hall meeting
The Maine Public Broadcasting Network, which provides public television and radio services to the state, closed last fiscal year with a $2 ...Candidate for deanship, Klose close to closure
Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, will visit with faculty and students of the University of Maryland’s journalism school on Tuesday. He ...It’s unofficial Kent Manahan month at NJN
The three-decade former anchor of NJN News gets an hourlong primetime special on Friday, “Kent Manahan: Anchoring a Legacy,” with excerpts from ...Pennsylvania stations tighten belts
WLVT-TV in Bethlehem, Pa., will likely raise about $100,000 less during its current pledge drive than it did last year, but there ...“NextGen” training program for young journalists to be cut as NPR downsizes
Behind last week’s headlines of NPR show cancellations and journalists losing their jobs, NPR eliminated Next Generation Radio, a training program created ...FCC asks ham radio operators for DTV help
The FCC has approached the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), an association of ham radio operators, for assistance with the upcoming digital ...California’s KVIE reduces staff
KVIE-TV in Sacramento, Calif., laid off seven staffers this week, reports the Sacramento Bee. The cuts amount to 10 percent of KVIE’s staff. General ...Weiss explains why NPR decided against across the board cuts
“[W]e didn’t want to cut across the board,” NPR News chief Ellen Weiss says in this NewsHour interview about the budget cuts ...StoryCorps to open permanent oral history booth in Atlanta
The first permanent StoryCorps booth outside of New York City will be installed in Atlanta next year — located temporarily in a ...NewsHour to report on NPR downsizing
Tonight’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer includes a segment on the NPR job cuts. The Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher is a confirmed guest. ...Commentator petitions to save ‘News & Notes’
An online petition to save News & Notes challenges NPR’s official explanation for the show’s cancellation: “several staff members report a different ...ITVS a “difficult partner” for filmmakers?
The Independent, an online (previously print) publication about independent film, reports that some filmmakers are unhappy with how the Independent Television Service (ITVS), a ...DTV adds more PBS markets
DTV, the only satellite provider offering PBS in high definition, has added 14 more markets for local pubTV, reports Multichannel News. More ...Show cancellations allow NPR to avoid making “a thousand cuts in everything”
A roundup of reports on the downsizing at NPR: The decision to cancel Day to Day and News & Notes, two mid-day ...
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