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Caring for Your Parents: only the noble
“Caring for Your Parents leaves the impression that we all love our mothers and fathers without ambivalence or reservation” and will honorably ...Salt Lake’s KCPW has a shot at keeping its license
The financially pinched owner of Salt Lake City news station KCPW-AM/FM has signed a letter of intent to sell its two FM ...Viewer reaction to “Bush’s War” is mixed
In his PBS ombudsman column, Michael Getler features nearly 30 of the letters he received about Frontline‘s two-part Iraq war retrospective, “Bush’s ...Asteroid named for could-be radio star
Boston blogger, podcaster, magician, street juggler and skeptic Rebecca Watson — one of the six finalists in the Public Radio Talent Quest, ...New PBS series: reality archaeology
PBS and Oregon Public Broadcasting have announced a new primetime series, working title Time Team, USA, to air in 2009 or 2010. ...“Why traditional TV production is dead”
As TV viewing options explode and money for program production dries up, “small and midsize public television stations (not the rich behemoths ...Premiere of PBS’s Oscar-winning family film: Wed. @ 8
“Peter and the Wolf,” winner of this year’s Academy Award as best animated short film, debuts tomorrow night on PBS’s Great Performances.Music discovery sites serving up a lot of what’s already on the radio
Washington Post radio columnist Marc Fisher surveys the landscape of user-customized online music providers and finds that those proposing songs based on ...Justice Dep’t okays XM-Sirius merger
Citing the growth of digital audio choices for radio listeners, the Justice Department yesterday approved the proposed merger of the XM and ...California merger rejected, but debate keeps going
Conversation continues in the pages of the Monterey Herald about the failed merger between two local public radio stations,.Viewers unimpressed with Newshour’s Obama interview
In letters to PBS ombudsman Michael Getler (scroll down), a handful of viewers accused Gwen Ifill of being soft on Barack Obama ...Miami schools to consider selling WLRN-FM/TV
Facing a $200 million budget shortfall, the Miami-Dade public school system will consider selling part or all of its WLRN-FM/TV duo, schools ...City Paper on Steiner: egos, money and clashing philosopies
In another story about the firing of WYPR’s Marc Steiner, The Baltimore City Paper reports that President Anthony Brandon’s “answers–and his nonanswers–during an ...To be fiscally prudent, WNIT drops analog early
WNIT, the pubTV station in South Bend, Ind., has discontinued analog broadcasting after its two major signal amplifiers failed, writes General Manager ...PBS kids games service launches today
PBS Kids Play!, an Internet-based subscription educational gaming service for kids ages 3 to 6, officially launches today. The curriculum-based service, which ...
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