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OPB faces state funding cuts
Oregon Public Broadcasting CEO Steve Bass says $1.25 million in proposed funding cuts could hamper his network’s digital transition in this editorial.War doc flap = “politically correct overkill”
So says Broadcasting & Cable blogger John Eggerton, who weighs in on PBS’s recent experience catching heat from both the left and ...“One of the cultural gems of Massachusetts” (the tenant, but maybe the building, too)
WGBH President Henry Becton took the Boston Globe for a tour of the station’s prominent new building last week, and the newspaper responded in ...Burns agrees to “incorporate” Latino war stories
Ken Burns reached an agreement with two interest groups to integrate the “narratives and voices” of Hispanic World War II veterans into ...MPT under fire for picking up V-me
Maryland Public Television’s recent announcement of its plans to begin multicasting V-me, pubTV’s new Spanish-language digital channel, came under fire from Republican ...Pubcasters remind Congress of the “firewall”
As Latino interest groups and politicians took their complaints about Ken Burns’ The War to corporate sponsors last week, top execs from ...Where are PBS’s liberal defenders now?
PBS and its star filmmaker Ken Burns “have just been mugged by censors and pressure groups demanding changes” to The War, writes ...Showtime renews video “The American Life”
Phil Rosenthal reported in the Chicago Tribune that the Showtime cable net has ordered an additional six-episode run of the TV spinoff of PRI’s This ...PBS picks Wired Science pilot
PBS announced today that it picked Wired Science as the winner of its science pilot competition (see Current‘s story in advance of ...Webcasters find friends in Congress
U.S. Rep Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.) introduced a bill that aims to throw out a controversial new royalty structure ...MSNBC anchor coming to NPR morning show
Alison Stewart, host of MSNBC’s midday news show The Most, will co-host of an “upcoming 24-hour multimedia news service and morning drive show for ...Antoniotti resigns at Detroit station
Detroit Public Television said yesterday that Steve Antoniotti, its president since 1995, “tendered his resignation because of an acknowledged failure to comply ...Producers of disputed Crossroads film to screen it for journalists, lawmakers
The producers behind Islam vs. Islamists–the America at a Crossroads doc that PBS says it will not air in its current imbalanced ...On-air changes follow shift of control at KKJZ, Long Beach
Jazz announcers Chuck Cecil and Helen Borgers stayed on the air at KKJZ in Long Beach, Calif., when Mt. Wilson Broadcasters took ...Something about it broke me
Like many newspaper commentators, Arizona Republic‘s Robert Robb found inspiration for a column in what he heard on NPR, or saw on its website, ...
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