Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media said yesterday it’s creating a new Center for Innovation in Journalism, which will further develop its Public ...
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April 27, 2006
Mara Liasson, filling in this week as NPR’s Mixed Signals blogger, says she was “jolted” by a MasterCard ad — uh, underwriting ...
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April 26, 2006
WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C., is aiming to expand its presence in nearby Greensboro, a move which could increase competition with WFDD-FM ...
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April 26, 2006
Joel Achenbach, a sometime science writer for the Washington Post and National Geographic, is spring cleaning his old files. He ponders a file about Carl Sagan, ...
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April 25, 2006
Earlier this month, PBS apparently strapped webcams onto several cows and launched MooTube, a bovine blog and video site promoting WNET’s Texas ...
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April 25, 2006
PBS has tapped SES AMERICOM to provide the satellite network for the PBS Next Generation Interconnection System, the network announced Monday. The ...
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April 25, 2006
CPB has issued a Request for Proposals for a study that will analyze coverage and interference issues related to HD Radio. “CPB ...
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April 24, 2006
National pubcasting orgs launched a website earlier this month designed to generate grassroots support as the system tries to stave off proposed ...
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April 24, 2006
Todd Mundt reviews Gather and Public Action, two public radio web services that aim to bring listeners together and solicit content from ...
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April 24, 2006
Koahnic Broadcast Corp. in Anchorage, Alaska, has received CPB funding to handle program distribution for public radio’s Native stations (press release, PDF). ...
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April 24, 2006
Trustees of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas, have unanimously approved selling the college’s noncommercial FM station to the Educational Media Foundation for ...
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April 21, 2006
Broadcast Electronics will provide program-associated data for XPoNential Radio, the Triple A-formatted stream that NPR offers for digital multicasting, reports Radio World. Information about ...
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April 21, 2006
The Public Radio Slave blogs from an undisclosed station about wacky complaints and requests from listeners, such as, “Hi, I won’t be ...
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April 21, 2006
Christopher O’Riley, host of public radio’s From the Top, recently released Home to Oblivion, an album of Elliott Smith tunes reworked for solo piano. O’Riley’s previous ...
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April 20, 2006
Longtime public radio producer and program creator Jim Russell is leaving American Public Media and setting up shop independently as “The Program ...