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Dropping BBC, WLIW will produce new news program
WLIW in New York is dropping BBC World News, which it has distributed to pubTV since 1998, and producing a new half-hour ...MPB reducing power to analog transmitters
Mississippi Public Broadcasting will reduce power to four of its eight analog transmitters before the Feb. 17, 2009 shut-off, starting with its ...NYT: A time of redefintion for pubradio
This Sunday Times article rounds up pubradio efforts to reignite the stalled growth of its audience, from WNYC’s new The Takeaway to ...Aaron Brown to host Wide Angle
Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown is the new host of Wide Angle, PBS’s international current affairs documentary series, produced by WNET in ...Philly’s WYBE: All shorts, all the time
WYBE’s new model, based on 5-minute programs that run online and on-air, aims for “a marriage of the often-frustrated community-TV ideal of locally ...PBS series spurs nationwide forums on health inequalities
Stanford University is holding a public forum about health inequality in America, inspired by the recent PBS series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality ...Moyers to interview Jeremiah Wright
Bill Moyers will interview Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, on Bill Moyers Journal this Friday. The ...WNYC’s Lehrer: ‘O’Reilly was great’
At a party last night for WNYC’s new national morning show, The Takeaway, Studio 360 host and New York media wag-in-chief Kurt ...Ex-KRCL programmers coalesce around a new outlet, Internet-only Utah Free Media
As Salt Lake community radio station KRCL prepares for its May 5 format switch, displaced volunteer programmers and former staff are planning ...Golding brings back voices from the past
Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices is mining the audio vaults for examples of “What NPR Was”–creative non-fiction radio that drew you in ...Pope’s UN address live on Religion & Ethics
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly will offer live coverage and analysis of the Pope’s address to the UN General Assembly on Friday, to be ...Radio host ousted for anti-marijuana advocacy
Community radio station KZYX in Mendocino County, Calif., has ousted a newspaper editor from her weekly public affairs program because of her ...WYPR board meeting dissolves amidst a chorus of boos
The WYPR board of directors abruptly adjourned its public meeting yesterday after Chair Barbara Bozzuto declared the firing of former talk show ...WQED helps create Bermuda pubTV
WQED in Pittsburgh is helping Bermuda develop its first public television station, Community Information TV, run by the Government of Bermuda. CITV, ...LA Times: FCC indecency rules ‘all bleeped-up’
The Supreme Court will soon consider a complaint by Fox against the FCC about a proposed indecency fine, leaving the commission in ...
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