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More than $1 million in grants goes to KET for early-childhood online learning resources
Kentucky Educational Television’s Everyday Learning Collaborative today received more than $1.14 million in grants from the Louisville-based James Graham Brown Foundation and ...Brendsel, PBS product development v.p., following Seiken to Telegraph Media
PBS just lost another executive to Telegraph Media Group. Jon Brendsel, currently v.p. of product development, will join former PBS digital head Jason ...Localore “fires up local networks,” AIR’s Schardt says in CJR
The Columbia Journalism Review calls Localore “an innovative financing model may change the face of public radio” in an article out today. The project, ...Real Orange ends production next month at PBS SoCal
PBS SoCal is canceling its longtime magazine show, Real Orange, reports the Orange County Business Journal. The positions for hosts Ed Arnold and Ann Pulice will ...ITVS chooses eight documentaries for Diversity Development Fund grants
The Independent Television Service today announced grants to eight documentaries from its Diversity Development Fund. The annual call for submissions resulted in 114 ...Pittsburgh airport, subway travelers to hear local classical musicians via WQED
WQED and the Allegheny County Airport Authority today announced a partnership to re-launch classical music programming by local artists for the Pittsburgh ...PRX partners on launch of searchable-sound database Pop Up Archive
Pop Up Archive, an online sound library backed by a 2012 Knight News Challenge funding, launches this week. Co-founders Anne Wootton and Bailey ...Sesame Workshop to get $20 million for worldwide financial education from MetLife
MetLife Foundation has pledged $20 million over the next five years to Sesame Workshop, the two announced today, to create financial educational ...PBS Digital Studios science show in hot water for off-color video
A PBS Digital Studios program is dealing with blowback from online viewers and the PBS ombudsman for using bobblehead dolls to caricature ...PBS streaming app now on Apple TV
Apple has signed PBS to create an app for its Apple TV set-top box service, AllThingsD reported Nov. 19. The app will ...Former NBR co-anchor Hudson lands new spot at Miami’s WLRN
Tom Hudson, former co-anchor for Nightly Business Report, is stepping into a new position of vice president of news at WLRN as part of ...Patent-trolling bill would assist targets of nuisance lawsuits
A bipartisan bill to fight so-called “patent trolls” was introduced on Capitol Hill Monday, reports Broadcasting & Cable. Patent trolling, as the practice is ...KPBS editorial employees approve representation by SAG-AFTRA
Staffers at dual licensee KPBS in San Diego voted Monday to join SAG-AFTRA, the union said in a statement. The new bargaining ...NPR urges FCC to help stations dislocated by spectrum auction
NPR has asked the FCC to consider reimbursing broadcasters for the costs of any antenna relocations that may result from the upcoming ...APTS’ Butler sees “real progress” on GOP pubcasting support on Capitol Hill
BOSTON — More than half of the 22 signatories of a letter on Capitol Hill this week supporting public television’s efforts to ...
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