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WJFF manager resigns after public controversy
The top station official at WJFF-FM, community radio in Jeffersonville, N.Y., has resigned following a public protest over his management style, reports ...James Muhammad to take helm at Lakeshore Public Media
The new president and c.e.o. of dual licensee Lakeshore Public Media in Merrillville, Ind., is James Muhammad, currently director of radio services ...‘Impact Playbook’ from BAVC helps track media engagement
The Bay Area Video Coalition, the San Francisco-based group that seeks to inspire social change by empowering media makers, just released a ...Microsoft mulls dropping Sesame interactive games
Microsoft is considering ending its Sesame Street interactive videogame series, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The newspaper’s Digits blog cites unnamed sources as saying demand ...Aereo prompts two networks to consider dropping over-the-air signals
Upstart television streamer Aereo “quite possibly” could bring down broadcast television, according to Fortune magazine. The service, which sells subscription access to broadcast ...WGBH gets almost $2 million from CPB to develop PBS LearningMedia assets
CPB is granting nearly $2 million to WGBH in Boston to expand middle-school math content available through PBS LearningMedia, pubcasting’s free online ...PubTV manager Pruess lands top spot at WQPT-TV in Moline, Ill.
Veteran pubcaster Mary Pruess, who resigned her position as president and general manager of WNIT-TV in South Bend, Ind., in October 2012, ...And the pubradio brackets winner is . . .
Despite some impressive social-media cheerleading by several worthy competitors, the winner of KPCC’s Public Radio Brackets is This American Life. More than participants 50,000 ...Repacking complications loom following broadcast spectrum auctions
Many broadcasters may be in for “unpleasant repacking surprises” following the FCC’s upcoming spectrum auctions, writes Washington, D.C., telecom lawyer Michael Berg ...Google updates Currents aggregation app, signs licensing agreement with APM
Google released updates to its Google Currents news-curation app March 20, including enhanced audio capabilities, and Minnesota-based American Public Media is taking advantage ...Louisville Public Media hits Kickstarter goal early for short fiction series
Louisville Public Media topped its $4,000 Kickstarter campaign goal for Unbound, its new short fiction series, six days ahead of schedule. As of ...PubTV programmer Hernandez moving into new post at KQED
Susie Hernandez, a past president of the Public Television Programmers Association, has accepted a newly created position at KQED in San Francisco ...Peter Sagal appears on WTF podcast to dish about former Hollywood career
Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me! and PBS's upcoming Constitution USA, makes an appearance on the latest ...Jane Henson, early Muppets collaborator with husband Jim, dies at 78
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. Jane Henson, widow of Muppets creator Jim Henson, died today at age ...Broadcasters fail to secure injunction against Aereo
Startup tech company Aereo Inc. won another legal battle against broadcasters Monday after a federal appeals court upheld an earlier ruling that ...
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