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KET to partner with university for 2013 International Space Station chat
Kentucky Educational Television is partnering with Eastern Kentucky University as it offers students a chance to speak with astronauts aboard the International ...First-time pubTV sponsor Ralph Lauren signs on with Masterpiece
Masterpiece has a new national corporate sponsor, Ralph Lauren. It’s the first time the American design firm is underwriting a pubTV program. Sponsorship ...FCC chair hopes to complete spectrum auctions by end of 2014
The FCC is circulating internally its framework for upcoming spectrum auctions, with a vote on the recommendations expected at its Sept. 28 ...Tampa’s WUSF acquires nonprofit online site Health News Florida
WUSF Public Media in Tampa, Fla., has acquired Health News Florida, an online nonprofit daily news service that covers health issues statewide, ...APTS, NPR to assume management of 170 Million Americans outreach
The Association of Public Television Stations and NPR have assumed co-management of the 170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting website, which organizes ...OPB reporter’s question to Ira Glass worth $101
Did you hear the one about how This American Life host Ira Glass gave an Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter $101 for asking him a ...WTTW joins Digital Convergence Alliance centralcast project
Chicago’s WTTW said today (Sept. 7) that it has signed on as a founding member of the Digital Convergence Alliance, the multi-station ...KCET’s “SoCal Connected” moving to nightly broadcast
SoCal Connected, KCET’s investigative news program, is moving to a weeknight format for its fifth season, beginning Oct. 29. “We will continue to investigate ...WBEZ transforms “Eight Forty-Eight” into “Morning Shift”
Chicago’s WBEZ is revamping its flagship newsmagazine, Eight Forty-Eight, into The Morning Shift with Tony Sarabia, reports Time Out Chicago media critic Robert Feder. It’ll also start 10 ...“In The Life,” television’s first LGBT newsmag, ending in December
In The Life, the first and only nationally broadcast lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newsmagazine, is going off the air in December, after ...Vanity Fair crowns Masterpiece’s Eaton one of “The Powers That Be”
Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of Masterpiece, is a new entry to Vanity Fair’s annual “The Powers That Be” list, squeaking in at No. 24 on ...NPR, WNYC collaborate to make ‘Ask Me Another’ weekly starting in January
NPR is teaming up with New York’s WNYC to make its trivia and quiz show Ask Me Another into a weekly offering, starting in ...Knight announces $3.67 million in Community Information Challenge grants
Twenty local news projects backed by foundations were awarded $3.67 million in matching funds today (Sept. 5) as winners of the Knight ...NPR selects ‘Izzi’ Smith as director of programming
Israel “Izzi” Smith will be the new director of programming at NPR, starting in November. He replaces Eric Nuzum, now vice president ...WNIT in South Bend, Ind., to operate public access TV station
The St. Joseph County (Ind.) Board of Commissioners has approved financing a public access television station, to be operated and managed by ...
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