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KCLU buys AM station to improve Santa Barbara reach
KCLU-FM, based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has bought an AM station in Santa Barbara to improve its reach up the Pacific Coast, ...Social network for those seeking, sharing hurricane info
NPR’s Andy Carvin describes the social networking applications powering the Hurricane Information Center, which launched last weekend in anticipation of Gustav’s landfall ...Amy Goodman and two producers arrested at Republican convention
“Democracy Now! radio host Amy Goodman and two producers were arrested yesterday while covering demonstrations at the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn.,” ...Devastated by Katrina, WYES can’t get FEMA funding to rebuild
New Orleans public TV station WYES’s “ordeal with FEMA is a Frontline episode in itself,” writes Dave Walker, Times-Picayune TV columnist. The ...Proposal requiring HD Radio chips in Sirius-XM receivers is still in play
The FCC has reopened the question of whether the merged Sirius-XM satellite radio company should be required to include HD Radio receiver ...NPR blogs for the Bryant Park generation
NPR.org launched two new blogs today. With daily posts by entertainment writer Linda Holmes, Monkey See explores the intersection of anthropology and ...James Brown, keepin’ the peace on WGBH
A new DVD set about James Brown features a documentary about the legendary soul singer’s performance in Boston the night after the ...Journalists’ credibility holding steady at 99-plus, for now!
While Digg and other online news aggregators use popularity to recommend articles, the new site NewsCred asks users to rate the credibility ...Ag Dept helps equip 19 stations for DTV and HD
The Agriculture Department yesterday announced $5 million in digital TV equipment grants to pubTV stations in 19 states. In less-populated areas, the ...Martin Savidge to anchor new nightly news program for pubTV
NBC News correspondent Martin Savidge has been named anchor of public TV’s new nightly news program Worldfocus, produced in New York by ...Narrator of The War wins Emmy
Keith David has won an Emmy for his voice-over narration of Ken Burns’ The War. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ...It’s values, not demographics, that drive pubradio audience growth
Marketing and research consultant John Sutton questions whether a CPB-backed project to recommend audience-growth strategies for public radio is on the right ...WGCU moves classical music to digital channel
WGCU in Fort Myers, Florida, is the latest hybrid-format pubradio station to move classical music programming off its main broadcast service. On ...Music fees a box of trouble for Pandora
Pandora, the Internet radio service that allows listeners to customize musical selections to their own tastes, is “approaching a pull-the-plug kind of ...Journalist Leroy Sievers dies
Leroy Sievers, TV journalist and author of NPR’s My Cancer blog, died on Friday at the age of 53. Since NPR notified ...
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