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Sesame Street will re-air hurricane special
Sesame Street will broadcast an edited version of its five-part special on hurricanes on Friday, Nov. 9. Editors cut the original to eliminate segments ...Ira Glass developing new scripted series about transgender man with Sundance Channel
This American Life host and public radio superstar Ira Glass continues his foray into scripted entertainment, as a producer of a new television series ...WFMU’s Jersey City transmitter is back on-air
After sustaining damage to its studio and transmitters from Superstorm Sandy, independent freeform music station WFMU has resumed broadcasts on 91.1 FM ...CPB gives emergency grants to WNYC and WNET in Sandy’s aftermath
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today it will immediately give $250,000 each to New York City's most prominent public media stations.Madeleine Brand in talks with Oprah Winfrey Network; KCRW in the wings
Madeleine Brand, the longtime radio pubcaster who recently departed KPCC after the station revamped her show, is very busy these days. “There’s ...Million Puppet March to stream live online
Can’t attend today’s Million Puppet March? No worries, the Washington, D.C., event is being streamed online. There’s also a “global tweet” at ...Verizon secures space on Maryland Public Television tower
Maryland Public Television is getting a new tenant on its broadcast tower: Verizon. That makes four clients leasing space on MPT’s 480-foot ...StoryCorps to archive Historias Latino project at U-Texas library in Austin
StoryCorps’ Historias project will house its archives of more than 2,000 audio recordings within the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at ...Nine Network breaks ground on Public Media Commons project
The Nine Network of Public Media in St. Louis kicked off a yearlong construction project on Tuesday to build the Public Media ...NPR, SoCal Public Radio websites win multiple EPPY awards
In a further sign of public media’s embrace of the digital front, on Oct. 30 both NPR and Southern California Public Radio ...Two Chicago stations pick up Smiley & West after WBEZ cancels show
The Smiley & West show is being picked up by two Chicago radio outlets, after WBEZ dropped the program due to sagging audience numbers. ...Superstorm Sandy sidelines FM signals of New Jersey’s WFMU
Superstorm Sandy has knocked both transmitters of freeform WFMU in Jersey City, N.J., off the air, but the station is still webcasting ...Louisville Public Media receives matching grant to build investigative reporting center
The proposed Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting has a projected three-year budget of $1.5 million.Documentary filmmakers win extension on ‘fair use’ of DVD, streaming video content
The U.S. Copyright Office has renewed an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that allows documentary filmmakers to continue to ...WQED’s unique all-pledge channel surpasses fundraising projection
The all-fundraising content WQED Showcase multicast channel in Pittsburgh has brought in $140,000 in pledges in its first year — that’s $30,000 ...
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