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Washington Post showcases home of CPB’s Jennifer Lawson
You can take a photographic stroll around the Washington, D.C., rowhouse of Jennifer Lawson, CPB’s s.v.p., television and digital video content, thanks ...APTS’ Butler to appear on C-SPAN program
Patrick Butler, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, will be the featured guest on C-SPAN’s The Communicators at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Saturday, ...KCETLink confirms SoCal Connected “going on hiatus”
Bret Marcus, executive producer of SoCal Connected on KCETLink in Los Angeles, addressed the award-winning investigative program’s future in a statement today. “SoCal Connected ...Two transmitters going dark due to budget cuts at Blue Ridge PBS
Blue Ridge PBS in Roanoke, Va., is shutting down two transmitters due to state funding and federal sequestration, according to the Roanoke Times. Households ...Co-host Brand mourns “last taping” of KCET’s SoCal Connected
Is KCETLink’s award-winning news show SoCal Connected ending production? There’s no official announcement from the pubcaster in Los Angeles yet, but co-host Madeline Brand ...OK Go helps NPR celebrate move to new headquarters
NPR called on rockers OK Go to mark the network’s move to new digs, the Washington Post reports. The performance, “filmed in meticulous, stop-motion-ish ...Tanya Ott takes radio v.p. position at Georgia Public Broadcasting
Veteran radio pubcaster Tanya Ott is joining Georgia Public Broadcasting as vice president of radio, responsible for management of 17 stations statewide, ...Cancer film on Colorado pubTV prompts PBS Ombudsman column
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler takes on a controversial documentary aired by a local station, Denver-based Colorado Public Television, in his latest column. Burzynski ...MacArthur grants go to nine docs including Localore and Kartemquin projects
Reinvention Stories, part of pubmedia’s Localore initiative, is the recipient of one of nine grants totaling more than $1 million announced today ...Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from controversial television streamer ivi
The Supreme Court has declined to review a 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding an injunction against the streaming television provider ...POV announces 26th season lineup, plans a move to Mondays
After a season of bad press following PBS’s much-maligned 2012 decision to move its flagship independent documentary program POV from Tuesday nights to Thursdays, ...Initial accuser files another complaint against former Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash
The first of four men who late last year accused former Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash of sexual improprieties filed another lawsuit on Monday. ...Downton Abbey Season 3 makes history as PBS’s highest-rated drama ever
Season 3 of the Masterpiece Classic hit Downton Abbey scored a 7.7 average rating and average season audience of 11.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen and ...Pubmedia local news has ‘a ways to go’ toward gender equity, report reveals
“Looks like we have a ways to go in local public radio and television. Like the rest of the media, women are ...MHz Networks premieres Today’s Ireland programming
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, MHz Networks launched the Today’s Ireland channel in the Washington, D.C., market on March 17, with ...
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