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Alaska net announces reorganization
On his blog, John Proffitt unveils the internal reorganization of Alaska Public Telecommunications, which got underway yesterday. “The primary collapse is to ...Was NewsHour right to pass on Edwards story?
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler questions why PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer paid little attention to John Edwards’ admission of an extramarital affair. “[T]he decision ...LA broadcasters prepare for PPM ratings
Arbitron is gearing up to introduce its Personal People Meter ratings system in Los Angeles, and the LA Times reports on local ...PubForge, an open source collaborative for pubcasters, surveys system
PubForge, a group of veteran web programmers collaborating on open-source tools tailored to the needs of public broadcasters, is conducting a survey ...Ford backs growth of PRX
The Public Radio Exchange announced this week that it received a $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support expansion of its ...CPB supports election coverage
Fifteen pubcasters received CPB grants to support programming about national issues in this year’s elections. The grants are part of the funder’s ...Pre-broadcast backlash against Nova Bible program
Nova’s “The Bible’s Buried Secrets,” scheduled to air Nov. 18 and still in production, is already raising the ire of the conservative ...Can Sesame Street ‘s new website compete with other kidvid networks?
“Sesame Street‘s new website is no ‘Gabba Gabba’,” writes Maria Russo in an Los Angeles Times review. “It pains me to says ...Lehrer and Ifill to moderate debates
The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the moderators, schedule and locations for the three presidential debates and one v.p. debate. The ...Online flames over Feulner’s legacy
Blair Feulner’s exit from KPCW in Park City, Utah, is the “end of a sleazy era,” writes Salt Lake Tribune columnist Rebecca ...All FCC indecency policing is bogus, networks claim
In a brief filed today with the Supreme Court, ABC, CBS and NBC claimed that the legal underpinnings of the landmark Pacifica ...Fan fights for weekly broadcasts of Rogers
A devoted Mister Rogers fan has started a campaign to restore daily broadcasts of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood to PBS stations. Brian Linder is protesting ...NPR acquires Public Interactive
NPR and Public Radio International announced yesterday that NPR will acquire Public Interactive, PRI’s web services company. PRI will continue to manage ...How to liven up public radio without resorting to cannibalism
Producer Doug Gordon offers his Modest Proposal for Making Public Radio More Entertaining and invites your comments and ideas on DirectCurrent.Hutchison in for Stevens on Commerce Committee
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas will replace Sen. Ted Stevens (Alaska) as the GOP’s ranking member on the Commerce Committee, which ...
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