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PubTV foodie has new column in Washington Post
Andres Viestad, host of pubTV’s New Scandinavian Cooking with Andres Viestad, launched a new monthly column for the Washington Post today. The ...Volunteers sought to review PTFP apps
NTIA is seeking station chief execs and other senior management as volunteer reviewers for grant applications in March and April. The agency ...WYPR hires Steiner replacement, scraps pledge drive
WYPR in Baltimore has hired Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks to replaced talk-show host Marc Steiner. Rodricks will inherit Steiner’s noon to ...Connecticut pubTV part of new local sports network
Connecticut Public Television and WFSB, the local CBS affiliate, are creating the Connecticut Sports Network. The network will broadcast high school and ...Who’s at fault for HD Radio’s shortcomings?
Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher surveys the HD Radio offerings of D.C. stations and finds only two outlets–WHUR and WAMU–have made big ...Lawson moves on, joining Ion Media Networks
Public TV’s top lobbyist for seven years, John Lawson, moves to a maverick commercial TV network March 14 as executive v.p., policy ...Garcia heads CPB TV programming
CPB filled its top TV programming vacancy today, hiring Ted Garcia, g.m. of KNME-TV in Albuquerque, N.M., as senior v.p. for television ...Many DTV receivers predicted to fall off the “cliff”
Centris, a market research firm in Los Angeles, warns that 5.9 million over-the-air digital TV receivers will lose access to at least ...One bad call on Super Tuesday
PBS’s NewsHour and NPR were among the news organizations that mistakenly named Sen. Hillary Clinton the winner in the Missouri Democratic primary ...Annual display screen production moving toward one per person worldwide
The world population of flat panel displays appears to be growing much faster than the world population of people. Worldwide, manufacturers’ shipments ...ABC News, WNET team up for North Korea broadcast
ABC News will collaborate with New York’s WNET-TV to produce a Feb. 26 broadcast of the New York Philharmonic from North Korea, ...NPR’s Stewart doesn’t need any more shoes
NPR’s Alison Stewart, host of the Bryant Park Project, talks with the New York Observer about leaving commercial TV for public radio. She says she appreciates ...WYPR president goes on air to explain Steiner firing
Anthony Brandon, president of WYPR in Baltimore, went on the air yesterday to explain the firing of host Marc Steiner. Brandon said ...Preparing to fight proposed budget cuts
Pubcasters may not be as successful at fighting off federal budget cuts as in the past, says NPR head Ken Stern in ...Bush budget includes $20 million for DTV education
The Bush Administration budget includes an extra $20 million for DTV education, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The money would go to the ...
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