NPR’s Rick Karr is seeking funds to produce TechnoPop, a “four-part, six-hour, public-television style series” about the intersection of music and technology.
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April 5, 2005
“Total subscribers at XM and its competitor, Sirius Satellite Radio, will probably surpass eight million by the end of year, making satellite ...
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April 5, 2005
New York’s WNYC has compiled its podcast links on one page on its website.
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April 4, 2005
Barry University intends to transfer ownership of WXEL-TV/FM in Palm Beach, Fla., to New York’s WNET and a community foundation established by ...
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April 4, 2005
“[T]rue diversity won’t come from propping [Ed] Gordon or [Tavis] Smiley up in shows that stand as islands of black culture in ...
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April 4, 2005
Another PBS Friday night show will sunset in June — Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered. Producing station WETA in Washington cited Carlson’s relocation to MSNBC, where ...
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April 1, 2005
Houston’s KUHT decided not to affiliate with the new digital cable service in which PBS holds an ownership stake. Advertising on the ...
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April 1, 2005
Tonight’s episode of Now, says the Washington Times, is “a heartbreaking half-hour, albeit one that could restore your faith in the ability of television — ...
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April 1, 2005
The host of this year’s Input conference plans to go ahead with the international pubTV producers’ screening conference in San Francisco, May ...
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March 30, 2005
DCRTV points to MPT Mole, a blog maintained by an anonymous someone claiming to be a Maryland Public Television employee. Note that ...
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March 29, 2005
The Washington Post previews Nova‘s tsunami special, “Wave That Shook the World,” scheduled to air tonight.
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March 29, 2005
Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street Week played a small role in the Internet speculation bubble, writes Jay Hancock, a Baltimore Sun business journalist, but its contributions were ...
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March 28, 2005
Iowa state senators have introduced a bill asking the nascent Iowa Public Radio network to consider playing “modern progressive musical content.”
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March 28, 2005
In a new example of the creeping commercial- ization of PTV under- writing, spots plugging burrito chain Chipotle will spoof pledge drives ...
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March 28, 2005
This story in the New York Times suggests that Washington’s indecency crusade will only get tougher with the departure of Michael Powell ...