With its proposed fiscal year 2004 budget the Bush administration not only rejects pleas for DTV transition funding for public TV, but ...
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February 3, 2003
Residents of Olsburg, Kan., are surprised to have their own public radio station, though their rural town is already “pretty famous” for ...
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February 3, 2003
Maryland’s Gazette explores the political leanings of Marc Steiner, talk show host and executive v.p. of programming at WYPR-FM in Baltimore. Steiner led ...
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February 3, 2003
NPR commentator Cokie Roberts will sit on President Bush’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. A rep for ABC News, Roberts’ employer, ...
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January 31, 2003
WXPN-FM in Philadelphia hired Roger LaMay, former manager of a Fox TV affiliate, as general manager. The Associated Press profiles the station, ...
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January 31, 2003
“In Washington, where you sit is almost always more important than what you say,” and PBS’s Jim Lehrer rubbed elbows with President ...
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January 29, 2003
NPR’s Jason Beaubien and two other reporters were detained in Zimbabwe yesterday.
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January 29, 2003
Christopher Lydon’s return to public radio also lands him in the Boston Globe.
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January 28, 2003
The FCC is seeking comment on proposed DTV rules for channel election, replication and maximization requirements as part of its second periodic ...
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January 27, 2003
CNBC, home of ex-PBS star Louis Rukeyser, is adding celebrity editor Tina Brown to its roster of hosts. The cable net is ...
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January 27, 2003
How should NPR handle the sticky situation of reporting on itself? Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin takes on the question in his “Media Matters” ...
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January 23, 2003
The Boston Phoenix profiles Christopher Lydon as he prepares to launch his new public radio show, The Whole Wide World. (Via MediaNews.)
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January 23, 2003
“At first, he glanced at the tube only occasionally while doing homework. Then Mamie Till Mobley began describing the condition of her ...
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January 22, 2003
The South Bend Tribune previews Shades of Gray, an hourlong documentary on abortion airing this month on public radio stations. Lee Burdorf, p.d. at South Bend’s ...
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January 21, 2003
An angry WTTW staff confronted President Dan Schmidt about the company-owned Lexus he drives in the wake of last week’s layoffs of ...