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Nielsen to buy Arbitron in $1.6 billion deal
The landscape of the audience-ratings business began shifting with this morning’s announcement that Nielsen Holdings plans to buy Arbitron Inc. in a ...Austin’s KUT to sign on with new all-music station Jan. 2
KUT in Austin, Texas, will launch its all-music station, KUTX 98.9 FM, Jan. 2 and adopt an all-news format on 90.7 FM, ...Gilbert, new Marketplace managing editor, coming from Weekend Edition
Sarah Gilbert is leaving her post as senior editor of NPR’s Weekend Edition to become managing editor of Marketplace, American Public Media announced today. She ...Lakeshore Public Television president steps down
Thomas Carroll, president of Lakeshore Public Television in Merrillville, Ind., since 2002, resigned on Wednesday, according to The Times in Muncie, Ind. Board Chair ...Veteran Colorado pubcaster Wick Rowland to retire in March 2013
Wick Rowland, president of Colorado Public Television for more than a decade, announced today that he will retire at the end of ...APHC’s Keillor says he thinks about retirement ‘a lot’
A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor mentioned the “R” word — retirement — this week on Charlie Rose. “I think retirement is a beautiful thing ...KQED’s Quest expands with $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant
KQED in San Francisco has received $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a two-year collaborative national multimedia science reporting ...New Orleans nonprofit newsroom, The Lens, receives tax-exempt status after 26-month wait
The Lens, a Murrow Award-winning nonprofit news organization in New Orleans, has finally received its 501(c)3 designation from the Internal Revenue Service. ...WNYC personalities perform Beck’s “Saint Dude”
In a new video, hosts at New York’s WNYC and others bring to life “Saint Dude.” The song is one of the ...Online database tracks NFL head injuries for Frontline/ESPN reporting project
Frontline, the PBS investigative news program, and ESPN’s Outside the Lines today launched the Concussion Watch website, a public database of the confirmed head injuries ...Nightly Business Report lays off staff, closes Chicago bureau
Nightly Business Report has laid off at least seven staffers and closed its Chicago bureau, Chicago media critic Robert Feder is reporting. “These are ...IPM offers loans to cash-strapped pubTV stations
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. Independent Public Media this week unveiled a new program to provide bridge funding ...Get a taste of Austin with your holiday music
What do the holidays sound like in Austin, Texas? Austin’s KUT-FM is answering that question with an “Austin-centric” stream of holiday music, ...Online album to raise funds for first pubradio station on Puerto Rico’s Vieques Island
The Latino Public Radio Consortium and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters are joining the Austin, Texas-based Artists for Media Diversity (A4MD) ...WNJO transmitter back on-air nearly six weeks after Sandy
WNYC's Toms River, N.J.-based transmitter, which had gone dark when Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey Shore community Oct. 29, came back on ...
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