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‘Wrench’ a jalopy, viewers say
There’s been no shortage of dismissive reviews of Click & Clack’s As the Wrench Turns, the animated Car Talk spin-off PBS launched ...Three stations win My Source awards
CPB announced yesterday its My Source Radio Testimonial Awards, given to three public radio stations and the listeners who recorded promotional spots ...WGBH to turn off mega-billboard
Boston’s WGBH will temporarily shut down its huge electronic screen, visible to drivers on the Massachusetts Turnpike, reports the Boston Globe. LEDs in the ...Multiplatform town hall addresses St. Louis foreclosure crisis
Rob Paterson reports on the first town hall meeting held as part of the Facing the Mortgage Crisis project at St. Louis’s ...Feulner abruptly signs off in Utah
The former president of KPCW in Park City, Utah, unexpectedly left his morning show Tuesday to go on sabbatical, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. ...Sesame Workshop prepares to unveil new website
An upcoming revamp of Sesame Street’s website will feature a live-action Muppet guide and an option that can help prevent children from straying to ...SnagFilms: streaming docs from PBS, others
Todd Mundt takes note of SnagFilms, a site for viewing documentaries online that has PBS as a partner. “PBS has made a ...Cartoon Tom and Ray are cute, but…
Wednesday’s PBS debut of Tom and Ray Magliozzi in animated form gets a mixed review from the New York Times‘s Ginia Bellafante, who calls As ...Walker saluted with Murrow Award
Laura Walker, president of WNYC, is this year’s recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award, CPB announced today. “Her creativity and willingness ...Roll your own widgets and play NPR content
NPR today invited Internet techies to take custom feeds of NPR text and audio– 250,000 stories going back to 1995 — and ...Prodigies coming through
From the Top has announced dates and sites for its radio and TV tapings. Radio tapings are set between Aug. 10 (Aspen, Colo.) and ...A fair start for a not-so-bad program
Readers of Edutopia magazine learned that Garrison Keillor was inspired to invent his daily short, The Writer’s Almanac, by a good experience at the Minnesota ...Pubradio speech vehicle runs out of gas
American Public Media will discontinue Word for Word, its weekly broadcast of notable speeches, effective Aug. 8, the distributor announced today. “Despite ...Billy Crystal to host PBS comedy series
Billy Crystal will be the host of WNET’s upcoming comedy series Make ‘Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America, which documents more ...Prediction: Bryant Park Project gets 2 weeks’ notice
NPR was expected to tell the staff of its Bryant Park Project this week that the morning show will be discontinued July ...
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