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Nominees for documentary feature Oscar include two films on PBS
Two documentaries on PBS received Academy Award nominations at the 5:30 a.m. Pacific announcement today from Los Angeles. Honored in the documentary ...PRI hires Kathy Merritt as v.p., content strategy and development
Kathy Merritt, senior director of radio program investments at CPB, has accepted a position as vice president, content strategy and development at ...Larry McDaniel, WDET-FM’s ‘Arkansas Traveler,’ dies at 72
Larry McDaniel, known for decades on public radio in Detroit as “The Arkansas Traveler,” died Jan. 4 after a lengthy illness, reports ...WGBY interviews real-life Downton Abbey Countess
Three nights after 7.9 million people tuned into the third-season premiere of PBS’s Downton Abbey, WGBY in Springfield, Mass., will broadcast an interview tonight with Lady ...Robert Bednarek dies; was deputy chief scientist at CPB
Robert Bednarek, a technology expert at CPB in the early 1980s, has died at age 55 after a battle with cancer, reports ...New York’s WQXR offers weekly opera show starting Jan. 19
New York Public Radio will launch an opera-focused radio show Jan. 19 on WQXR, its classical station in New York City, and ...Aereo, target of lawsuits by broadcasters, to expand nationwide
Aereo, the digital television distributor that grabs and streams over-the-air signals to web-enabled devices, is expanding nationwide, reports Hollywood Reporter. The new technology, backed ...Downton Abbey premiere spikes PBS ratings
The Masterpiece Classic Season 3 premiere of Downton Abbey drew nearly 8 million viewers, a 5.1 household rating, almost doubling those numbers for the first episode ...Huell Howser, longtime host of California’s Gold, dies at 67
One of pubTV's most beloved and good-natured personalities, Huell Howser, passed away Jan. 6 of natural causes.PBS inks deals for on-demand access to local station content
PBS unveiled deals to distribute public TV programs on two additional on-demand video streaming platforms — Roku and Xbox Live. The contracts, unveiled last ...Four candidates vying for director’s job at Quad Cities PubTV in Illinois
Western Illinois University in Macomb has announced the four candidates for director of its WQPT-TV, Quad Cities Public Television. Interviewing for the ...Philadelphia’s WXPN converts alt-rock stream to singer-songwriter format
Philadelphia’s WXPN-FM has converted a long-running alternative-rock stream into XPN2 Singer-Songwriter Radio, the broadcaster announced last week. The new stream, which can ...Kickstarter users have given more than $42M to documentaries
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter announced Thursday that independent film projects on its site had passed the $100 million mark in pledges since its ...TPT’s Next Avenue partners with cable and online network RLTV for content
Next Avenue — a web-based initiative focusing on Americans over 50 years old from Twin Cities Public Television, American Public Television and ...Mullins exits The World as Werman steps up as full-time host
Dec. 31, 2012, marked the last day that Lisa Mullins, longtime host of PRI’s The World, held that position. On Jan. 1, reporter and ...
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