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“Sid” drops in at PBS Showcase
PBS Showcase attendees got a preview this week of Sid the Science Kid, the new series from the Jim Henson Co. Sid combines several production ...Dear rural America: When you shop for that DTV box…
Oregon Public Broadcasting is alerting viewers of the state’s 400 rural translator stations that they should make sure the DTV converter boxes ...Philly station aims to make viewers into producers
“In my 20 years in the business, I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” says a Pennsylvania pubTV leader of Philadelphia’s WYBE, ...“Electric Company” to return to PBS
Production has begun on a revival of The Electric Company, the classic kidvid show from the ’70s. Media Life reports that the new Company will air on ...V-me offers preview of programming
V-me, the Spanish-language multicast channel, is set to introduce an original show aimed at preschoolers and, for adults, a reality series about ...Horn named e.p. of Great Perfs
WNET has promoted David Horn from series producer to e.p. of Great Performances, the station announced today as the PBS Showcase Conference wrapped up ...Lowell Award goes to Becton
CPB gave this year’s Ralph Lowell Award to Henry Becton Jr., who retired as WGBH president last fall and is now vice ...Knight Foundation backs project creating open source software for pubradio
The Knight Foundation announced a $327,000 grant to Quiddities, a web development company partnering with KUSP-FM in Santa Cruz, Calif., to develop ...NPR reviewing controversial installment of The Infinite Mind
NPR is reviewing whether the recent Infinite Mind program “Prozac Nation: Revisited” meets its editorial standards and practices, according to Ombudsman Alicia ...PBS picks thePlatform for online video
PBS has chosen thePlatform, an online video publishing and management company, to provide the backend of a pubTV online video distribution system, ...It seems a long time since Alistair Cooke
Scottish actor Alan Cumming will host Masterpiece Mystery!, the summer season of WGBH’s imported drama series, PBS announced today. (In January, Gillian Anderson started ...Google announces copy/paste social networking app
Not specifically pubcasting-related but perhaps of interest to station webmasters: Google’s new Friend Connect aims to enable even small websites to incorporate ...NPR advance team in China reports on earthquake’s aftermath
NPR’s Melissa Block recorded a live account of yesterday’s earthquake in central China and later reported from the scene of a collapsed ...Slate questions drug companies’ influence on pubradio’s Infinite Mind
Slate has stirred up a new controversy over improper editorial influence in pubradio programming: a recent edition of The Infinite Mind is ...Jay Iselin, former WNET president, dies at 74
John Jay Iselin, ebullient president of New York’s WNET from 1973 to 1987, died of pneumonia May 6, the New York Times ...
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