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FCC issues DTV education requirements
The FCC today approved new DTV consumer education and reporting requirements for broadcasters and cable and satellite companies (press release). Broadcasters must ...Louisville’s Partnership adopts new name
The three-station Public Radio Partnership in Louisville, Ky., has renamed itself Louisville Public Media. “What does our new name imply? Simply put, ...NPR apologizes for “dark continent,” but should it?
NPR apologized to listeners Feb. 16 after newscaster Jean Cochran referred to Africa as “the dark continent” in a newscast. “This is ...Pubradio merger fizzles in California
KAZU-FM in Pacific Grove, Calif., will remain under control of California State University Monterey Bay, the board of the school’s Foundation decided ...Prediction: Waylon Smithers will dodge questions about sexual preference
This weekend’s installment of The Simpsons will feature Terry Gross, host of public radio’s Fresh Air, starring as herself, according to the PRPD blog. (NPR release.)Post-IMA ruminations lean negative
This year’s recently concluded Integrated Media Association conference has inspired some pessimism among pubcasters keen on new media. John Proffitt of Alaska ...Excuse me, what is that music you play when you read the stock figures?
While WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein is tutoring journalists in Bhutan (earlier item), Marketplace reporter Lisa Napoli has a Bhutanese radio producer shadowing her while ...Her students: journalists covering a new democracy
Andrea Bernstein, political director at WNYC Radio in New York, is in Bhutan this week, taking a break from U.S. campaigns to ...Wear a sweater for Mr. Rogers
In honor of Fred Rogers on what would have been his 80th birthday, Mr. McFeely announced that March 20 will be sweater ...NPR’s Folkenflik: from print to radio
“Joining NPR from the world of print was a bit like entering the Marine Corps at Parris Island,” says NPR media correspondent ...Starr: McCain’s people never talked to me
Various participants in a 1990s Pittsburgh station swap proposal weighed in last week on the nature of Sen. John McCain’s involvement in ...Seeger doc depicts ‘power of song’ but no ‘stupid things I’ve done’
Pete Seeger, influential folk singer and activist who was persecuted during the second Red Scare for his former membership in the Communist ...Kids Sprout competitors: nap time and snack time
That’s what Sandy Wax, president of PBS Kids Sprout, tells the Philadelphia Inquirer in this interview. The digital cable channel for preschoolers, ...Brandon: No useful data from venting listeners
“You know, this is not a forum that gives us usable research,” WYPR President Tony Brandon says in a Baltimore Sun column ...More responses to “Is PBS Still Necessary?”
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler, the NewsHour‘s Jim Lehrer and NewsHour viewers respond to the recent New York Times column, “Is PBS ...
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