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Small and indie TV stations protesting FCC bid to end analog viewability rule
A group of more than 200 TV stations is protesting the FCC’s proposal to end the viewability rule in December 2013, reports Multichannel News. ...George Thomas retiring from his longtime jazz show on Vermont Public Radio
The host of Vermont Public Radio’s Jazz with George Thomas is stepping away from the mic after more than 11 years. Thomas has announced ...Television Critics Association nominates five PBS shows for honors
PBS scored five nods in the 28th annual Television Critics Association Awards, announced Wednesday (June 6) in Los Angeles. Masterpiece’s Downton Abbey and Sherlock are ...State orders W.V. network to craft plan, calls for review of executive’s performance
The state Educational Broadcasting Authority has ordered West Virginia Public Broadcasting to develop a strategic financial plan by July 31, according to ...Pubcasting stations’ transit of Venus webcast attracts 436,000 worldwide
The June 5 live webcast of the heavenly transit of Venus by pubstations WPBT2 in Miami, Las Vegas PBS and KNPB in ...McCarroll to retire from Oklahoma pubcasting network by year’s end
John McCarroll, executive director of the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), will retire by the end of the year, he told the ...Universities becoming incubators for news startups, J-Lab reports
J-Lab has posted an overview of university news websites, with information culled from its meeting last week with three dozen site editors ...Mediation talks between Jefferson Public Radio and university system start tomorrow
A mediator will start talks this week between representatives of Jefferson Public Radio and the Oregon University System, which holds the broadcaster’s ...Florida, Nevada pubstations join to live-stream today’s transit of Venus
WPBT2’s Star Gazers, in partnership with KNPB, will live-stream today’s historic transit of Venus from Reno, Nev., starting at 6 p.m. Eastern. The stations, ...Paul Bartishevich, longtime radio producer, dies at 53
Radio producer Paul Bartishevich, head of Finger Lakes Productions International, died June 1 at his home in Trumansburg, N.Y., of an apparent ...U.S. terminates support of $20 million Pakistani “Sesame Street” project
Following reports of corruption, the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan has terminated $20 million in funding for to develop a Pakistani version of Sesame Street, ...Publisher, editor of El Paso news nonprofit fired as it awaits 501(c)3 status
The publisher and editor of Newspaper Tree, a nonprofit newsroom in El Paso, Texas, have been fired “as a result of internal ...Panetta presents Vietnamese official with diary researched by “History Detectives”
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta presented a diary to Vietnam’s defense minister in Hanoi Monday (June 4) from the body of ...Some 14 percent of PBS.org monthly visitors are localized to stations
Currently about 14 percent of the monthly visitors to PBS.org are localized to a station, reports Kristin Calhoun, director of PBS Interactive, ...Catholic League complains to NPR about coverage of abuse trial
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has asked NPR to respond to a complaint about a recent report on a ...
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