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WNYC reactivates Swing State Radio Network for debate coverage
The “Swing State Radio Network” launched by New York’s WNYC is returning for the upcoming presidential and vice-presidential debates. WNYC public affairs ...CPB’s pared-back FY13 business plan reflects loss of digital funds
CPB’s business plan and operating budget for 2013, approved by the board at its September meeting, are now available online. The business ...Sue Schardt of AIR extols storytelling genre
“Those of us working in public media have the potential as never before to expand and deepen understanding, tolerance, and common purpose ...FCC votes to begin spectrum-auction process
The five-member FCC today voted unanimously to begin the process of reclaiming broadcast spectrum to auction for wireless broadband use, reports Broadcasting & Cable. ...Radio Netherlands cancels The State We’re In
The State We’re In, an English-language public radio series produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide in partnership with WAMU in Washington, D.C., will shut down ...Car Talk was still #1 among NPR weekend shows in spring 2012
A new report from Walrus Research shows that NPR’s Car Talk continued its streak as NPR’s most popular weekend program in Spring 2012, with Wait ...Backyard Farmer celebrates 60 years on the air
Nebraska Educational Television’s Backyard Farmer — the longest-running local television program in the country — is celebrating its 60th season with a special, Backyard Farmer: ...AAPRC offering two jazz shows for national broadcast
Two African-American Public Radio Consortium stations at historically black colleges and universities are offering jazz programs for national broadcast. Return to the Source with ...One Cahill concern during Senate CPB confirmation hearing: Tattoos
In an interview with the Kansas City Star, new CPB Chair and longtime KCUR radio pubcaster Patty Cahill recalls her 2009 Senate confirmation hearing ...Schiedel, g.m. of KRSC-TV, to head Oklahoma network
Veteran public broadcaster Daniel Schiedel will be the new executive director of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, the OETA Board of Directors ...Cleveland’s WCLV will go noncommercial
Cleveland commercial classical station WCLV-FM will begin operating as a noncommercial entity Jan. 1, 2013, the station’s owner, ideastream, announced yesterday. “The ...CPB chooses Crawford Media Services to digitize American Archive content
CPB has selected Crawford Media Services in Atlanta to digitize audio and video content for the American Archive. The CPB initiative is ...AETV commissioner accuses Alabama PTV employees of possible perjury
In a meeting Tuesday (Sept. 25), a member of the Alabama Educational Television Commission accused two Alabama Public Television employees of giving ...The Advocates is back, in WGBH’s Open Vault
WGBH is offering a digitized collection of 50 episodes of the early pubTV debate program The Advocates, which initially ran on PBS from 1969 ...Personal stories “are not there anymore” on NPR newsmags, Siemering says
In the conclusion of an interview on Huffington Post, Bill Siemering, a founding father of NPR, talks about how the network now ...
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