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Citizen Koch ends Kickstarter campaign with more than double its goal
Citizen Koch, a documentary about the influence of money in politics, closed its 30-day Kickstarter campaign with more than double its initial ...PBS looking strong among younger viewers, entertainment news site reports
PBS is the only broadcast network that is “dramatically up” in viewers 18 to 34 years old, as well as up in ...Penn State pubcaster WPSU part of university media rebranding effort
Penn State Public Broadcasting is now Penn State Public Media, its licensee announced today. “We will continue to operate as a broadcasting service ...NPR and Threadless launch T-shirt challenge
Threadless, a online company that sells T-shirts with designs voted on by users, is calling for artists to submit designs inspired by ...WBUR sells AM repeater on Cape Cod to Portuguese language broadcaster
WBUR licensee Boston University agreed Monday to sell its AM repeater in Yarmouth, Mass., to Langer Broadcasting Group LLC. WBUR entered into the agreement ...PBS becoming more topical under programmer Hoppe, AP notes
In anticipation of PBS’s appearance this week at the annual Television Critics Association Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., The Associated Press ...Alabama network will drop Public Radio International shows
Alabama Public Radio will eliminate Public Radio International shows from its schedule, dropping This American Life and The World, reports Tuscaloosanews.com. Director Elizabeth Brock said the ...Fiction podcast The Truth meets fundraising goal for second season
The Truth, a podcast of fictional stories whose segments have aired on national pubradio programs, met its fundraising goal for a second ...Marketplace rebrands under new logo, tagline
American Public Media’s Marketplace introduced a new brand identity aimed at building awareness of its programs among audiences across broadcast and digital platforms. ...Pacifica’s D.C. station in dire financial straits, says interim executive director
Pacifica station WPFW in Washington, D.C., is in “a pretty critical financial situation,” according to Summer Reese, interim executive director of the ...‘Screw Everyone’: Ask Me Another host eyes big screen
Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR and WNYC's bar trivia game show Ask Me Another, is taking her saucy memoir to the movies.American Public Media Group sells off for-profit publishing arm
American Public Media Group is selling off the for-profit arm of its business that publishes boutique magazines in order to concentrate on ...House Appropriations subcommittee reportedly will propose eliminating CPB
The House Appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over CPB is pushing once more for eliminating government funding to public broadcasting in its fiscal ...House Appropriations proposes cutting NEA, NEH funding in half
The House Appropriations Committee has proposed cutting funding to the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities by ...Vigeland discusses life post-Marketplace: ‘It has been terrifying,’ she says in speech
Why did Tess Vigeland leave her Marketplace Money hosting gig back in November 2012? The reasons are complicated, she revealed in a July address ...
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