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The Phoenix City Council yesterday okayed planning for a building on Arizona State University’s downtown campus that will house pubTV station KAET ...Past role of new Sprout host raises eyebrows
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler revisits the firing of PBS Kids Sprout host Melanie Martinez last summer and finds a story rich with ...White House reappoints Tomlinson to overseas broadcast post
President Bush yesterday reappointed former CPB Chair Kenneth Tomlinson to his other federal post, chair of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, overseer ...WAMU and WTMD collaborate to bring AAA music format to Washington on HD Radio channel
WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., launches a digital channel today that carries programming from WTMD-FM, an noncommercial Adult Album Alternative station in Towson, ...Workers at public station KQED authorize strike
Unionized technicians at Northern California Public Radio (formerly KQED) in San Francisco have voted to authorize a strike, reports the San Jose Mercury News. ...To the NEA, News-Laden NPR is Making a Classical Mistake – washingtonpost.com
A study by the National Endowment for the Arts criticizes public radio for favoring news programming over classical music in recent years, ...Fair Game in Dallas
The Dallas Morning News profiles Fair Game, the new weeknight show of news and humor from Public Radio International. “This show is proof that public radio ...Marimow inquired about Inquirer job months ago
According to the New York Times, former NPR v.p. for news and (briefly) ombudsman Bill Marimow, hired yesterday as editor of the ...Marimow to leave NPR for Inquirer
Bill Marimow, NPR’s former v.p. for news who stepped down last month to become the network’s ombudsman, today was named editor of ...The War to air at 8 p.m., despite minor profanity
PBS announced this week that Ken Burns’ seven-part World War II doc, The War, will air over two weeks (four nights the ...Was Inskeep betraying bias?
Listener complaints prompted Bill Marimow, NPR’s ombudsman, to review an interview of Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) that aired on Morning Edition, and the ombud concludes ...KNCT takes heat for cancelling “Now”
Mary Beth Harrell, the Democratic challenger in Texas’s 31st congressional district, accused local PBS station KNCT in Killeen of trying to hurt ...Pubradio’s entree into “the book” delayed
Arbitron announced Thursday that it will postpone reporting ratings for public radio stations alongside those of commercial stations, according to Mediaweek. Broadcasters had ...Public Radio Partnership dismisses four in shakeup
The new president of the Public Radio Partnership in Louisville, Ky., dismissed four employees yesterday, including a v.p. of programming and marketing, ...CPB’s Bode not sure the NewsHour is as balanced as he thought
In his most recent report, CPB ombudsman Ken Bode looks at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting’s study of NewsHour guests, released Oct. ...
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