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Unneighborly neighbors in the Prairie Home next door
All is not well in Lake Wobegone. Prairie Home Companion host and creator Garrison Keillor is suing his neighbor over a planned ...CPB grants $1.3 million for election collaboration
CPB has awarded more than $1.3 million to a consortium of public radio and television organizations to support multi-platform coverage of Election ...Sarkozy would make Radio France ad-free also
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to end advertising on France’s public television channels would also take ads off Radio France, reports Forbes. Advertising ...Discovery Health ‘OWN’ed by Oprah
Discovery Communications and Oprah Winfrey will create OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network to replace Discovery Health Channel, the principals announced today. The ...Adobe backs youth programming for PBS
Adobe Systems Inc. has given the PBS Foundation $1 million to aid youth-oriented and youth-generated programming — establishing the network’s Adobe Youth ...Fit or Fat? Live or Die?
Those are the stakes outlined by Fatworld, ITVS‘s latest educational video game, which launched this week. The free game (download required) uses ...Free tryouts for PBS Kids Play game site
PBS Kids Play!, the online learning games package for ages 3-6, opened in a beta version this week for free tryouts, USA Today reported. Current ...Shepard revives weekly NPR ombudsman’s column
“My job is not to advocate for NPR,” writes new NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard in her first web column. “My job is ...Activists want Democracy Now! on WOUB
A professor at Ohio University in Athens is leading a campaign to bring Democracy Now! to WOUB. So far station managers have ...Wash Post’s Fisher says NPR Music site is better than most pubradio stations
The Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher reviews NPR’s new music website and finds that it’s a lot better than the narrow formatting of ...How persuasive is Persuasion?
“Persuasion, the first production from PBS’ Complete Jane Austen, badly overadjusts, adding so many fussy modern flourishes and out-of-place romantic gestures it almost undermines the ...Previews of radio’s next evolution
Food for thought on the future of radio: Rob Paterson blogs about the arrival of Wi-fi to the car and Mark Ramsey ...Pledge drive listening as measured by PPMs
Pubradio marketing consultant John Sutton summarizes conclusions from the first study to use Arbitron Personal People Meter data to analyze pledge-drive listening.Was Eucharist fair game? But Faith gets forgiveness
Public Radio International has apologized for a recent skit on Fair Game with Faith Salie that recommended an imaginary “Huckabee family recipe” ...Hawaii pubTV will profit from land sale
The Hawaii Public Television Foundation is selling land it bought in 2003 to house PBS Hawaii, reports the Honolulu Star Bulletin. The ...
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