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KUOW launches second FM service
Seattle’s KUOW-FM will launch a second news/talk service on KXOT-FM in Tacoma starting July 1. The station will carry national news and ...Gwathmey to retire
Joe Gwathmey is retiring as president of Texas Public Radio in San Antonio. Gwathmey was a member of NPR’s founding board of ...KOCE sale invalidated by court
The fate of the Los Angeles area’s second largest pubTV station is up in the air again after a state appeals court ...“The digital revolution cannot be ignored,” says PBS prez
In a speech at Washington’s National Press Club yesterday, PBS President Paula Kerger touted new digital media as a means for ...Legislative auditor’s report on Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Louisiana’s legislative auditor released a report [PDF file] yesterday that said Louisiana Public Broadcasting, a state-funded public TV network, illegally deposited $11 ...University issues RFP to run jazz station KKJZ, Long Beach
Pacific Public Radio, operator of KKJZ-FM, the major jazz station in the Los Angeles area, is asking fans to urge license-holding California ...WDET g.m. pleads no contest to embezzlement charges
Michael Coleman, g.m. at WDET in Detroit, pled no contest to a reduced embezzlement charge Thursday and “faces up to 93 days ...PBR sponsors NPR
Pabst Blue Ribbon, the former bottom-shelf beer that has become a hipster beverage of choice in recent years, is now underwriting NPR’s ...Senate votes to raise indecency fines
The Senate unanimously approved a bill Thursday that would increase FCC radio and television indecency fines tenfold, from $32,500 to $325,000 per ...One pledge drive, under a microscope
A Sacramento Bee media columnist stares in the face of extreme boredom without flinching: he listens to almost all of Capital Public Radio’s pledge ...Wired News: Brave New World for Public Media
Wired summarizes last weekend’s Beyond Broadcast conference. “I think we’re at a very strange point of all these enormously powerful, old, rich institutions ...NPR : Guilt by Association: The NPR-FOX Connection
NPR Ombdusman Jeffrey Dvorkin examines a recent blog-induced foofaraw regarding Mara Liasson and Fox News and concludes: “These blogs appear to be ...Jay Allison profile
Chicago’s Center for Arts Policy presents a lengthy profile of pubradio indie Jay Allison and his myriad projects (PDF). “He is not ...NGIS promises lower sat costs, increased automation
Broadcasting & Cable breaks down the ongoing development of PBS’s Next Generation Interconnection System, scheduled to go online this fall. (subscription req.)Aggregation and Consolidation: A Rationale
Todd Mundt and Mark Fuerst aim to answer the question: “Why do we need aggregation and consolidated technologies?” (Stephen Hill comments here.)
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