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The Met cancels VOD plans
The Metropolitan Opera is scrapping plans to make its productions available on cable video-on-demand services shortly after its live transmissions to movie ...NPR’s Kernis to return to TV
Jay Kernis, NPR’s top program exec for seven years, will soon announce his return to TV, according to an NPR memo circulated ...Make that two Illinois stations in dire straits
With no buyers interested in purchasing public TV station WQPT in Moline, Ill., trustees of station licensee Black Hawk College met to ...Going for your emotions, rather than your brain
“Documentaries are, in fact, defined by what’s left out,” writes filmmaker David Grubin, describing the editorial choices he made in producing The ...PBS ombud: race segment “too long”, short on illumination
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler reviews a Jan. 14 NewsHour segment on the racially-themed sparring between the Obama and Clinton campaigns. He concludes that ...Wash. signal goes to KUOW
KUOW-FM in Seattle is likely to start broadcasting on a new full-power signal in Bellingham, Wash., after resolving its competition for the ...Critic finds Austen blowout mostly pleasurable
Writing for the New Yorker, Nancy Franklin reviews the “four-month Austenpalooza” now underway on PBS’s rebranded Masterpiece. “[T]he Austen logjam has many pleasing aspects—as well ...Maassen heads to New Orleans
Paul Maassen, g.m. of WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is leaving the station to lead WWNO-FM in New Orleans, reports the Dayton Business Journal. ...KUNI tower recovers from ice storm
Iowa Public Radio’s KUNI-FM in Cedar Falls is again broadcasting at full power after several weeks of suffering from ice-storm damage. The ...CPB backs six Web 2.0 projects
Pubcasters with new backing from CPB will start a music-focused online social network (WFUV, New York), combat the spread of invasive plants ...Rose to become “60 Minutes” regular
PBS’s Charlie Rose will contribute reports to CBS’s 60 Minutes starting this season, reports the New York Times. Rose had previously appeared on 60 Minutes II until its ...Free over-the-air TV poised for a comeback?
An APTS survey (press release) found that more than 40 percent of current over-the-air households would rather continue to get their TV ...Colorado Public Radio’s KCFR upgrades to new home on FM band
With the pending $8.2 million purchase of Denver Christian music station K-LOVE, Colorado Public Radio plans to move its KCFR-AM news service ...In Vermont, personalized HD Radio demos make the difference in converting listeners
Vermont Public Radio’s Rich Parker describes how a personal approach to educating listeners and retailers about HD Radio has made all the ...PBS adding to its YouTube stash
PBS is adding more video content to its YouTube channel, including original online content, previews of broadcast programs, and longer program segments. ...
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