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Ad-free pubTV and radio in France: Sarkozy proposes tax on internet and telephone providers to ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed a new tax to offset revenue losses when advertising is eliminated from state-funded public radio and television, ...Sometimes the whole is revealed as the pieces come together
Longtime PBS pledge guru Deepak Chopra is not pissed that Mike Myers’ movie The Love Guru caricatures his subcontinent murmur, Chopra said ...Jim Lehrer returns to NewsHour tomorrow
Jim Lehrer will be back in the anchor seat tomorrow night after a nearly two-month absence following heart valve surgery. Lehrer will ...P.O.V.’s Traces of the Trade an honest discussion about race
Katrina Browne’s P.O.V. documentary Traces of the Trade examines “what it might look like for whites to talk honestly with one another about ...A new g.m. for WDAV, a retirement at KPBS
Benjamin Roe will succeed Kim Hodgson as general manager of classical music station WDAV-FM in Davidson, N.C. Roe, an award-winning producer and ...ITVS announces winner of Filmocracy mashup contest
ITVS and Independent Lens announced that Kylee Darcy, a 19-year-old attending UC Berkeley, is the grand prize winner of their first annual ...FCC releases list of MX’d applications
This week the FCC released a list of applications for noncommercial FM stations entangled in mutually exclusive (MX) conflicts (list and Public ...For radio, the basking may now commence
You may not have recognized it back then: April 2008 was Public Radio Recognition Month. The Senate adopted its resolution in March, ...Job cuts announced at Albany’s WMHT-TV/FM
WMHT in Albany, N.Y., plans to cut ten jobs, six of which are full-time positions, according to the Times Union business news ...A cure for newspapers: cut out that NPR-style intellectualism
Lee Abrams, former XM satellite radio programmer turned chief innovation officer for the Tribune Company, wrote up 15 ideas for growing newspapers, ...Caucus pushing for more minority-owned channels in proposed XM-Sirius merger
To garner FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s endorsement of their proposed merger, XM and Sirius satellite radio companies voluntarily agreed to reserve four ...A subversive plan to influence pubradio programmers
Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America has a subversive new strategy to win airtime on public radio stations: he’s offering ...Three shows receive Beard awards
Two pubTV shows and a pubradio program were honored with James Beard Awards in the past week. Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie topped the ...WNYC’s move to new HQ almost complete
Sometime within the next week, New York’s WNYC will begin broadcasting from its new headquarters in lower Manhattan. The New York Times ...SRG publishes guide to improve pubradio fundraising
Although listeners contributed a total of $278 million to public radio stations in fiscal 2006, when adjusted for inflation the impressive sum ...
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