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‘Permanent beta’ a new programming approach for NPR
NPR lately has been using a more nimble and less expensive way of developing content — a kind of “permanent beta” — ...Oklahoma Network gets state funding for two more years
The Oklahoma Senate this week approved funding the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority for at least two more years, reports the Tulsa World newspaper. The ...WFUV’s Pete Fornatale dies following stroke
WFUV-FM is reporting that host Pete Fornatale, who got his start at the Fordham University pubstation as an undergrad in 1964 and ...Autism treatment grew into passion for classical music for young pubradio host
The host of the Josh’s Corner weekly classical podcast for WBOI-FM in Fort Wayne, Ind., may be unique within the pubradio system: In addition ...FCC asks for input on allowing third-party fundraising on noncom stations
As anticipated, the FCC today (April 26) invited public comment on allowing noncommercial educational (NCE) broadcasters to spend a small percentage of ...House members establish Federal Spectrum Working Group, in anticipation of auctions
U.S. House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) have launched a bipartisan Federal Spectrum ...Longtime visual journalist joins ‘PBS NewsHour’ as multimedia managing editor
PBS NewsHour has hired visual journalist Tom Kennedy, formerly of WashingtonPost.com and the National Geographic Society, as its managing editor for multimedia. Kennedy currently ...Station programmer asks CPB ombudsman to address Dyer pledge content
The issue of spirituality in motivational speaker Wayne Dyer’s pledge programming has resurfaced in the latest CPB ombudsman’s column, after the PBS ...Chicago Public Media picks up former Sun-Times journalist as blogger
WBEZ in Chicago has hired veteran newsman Zay N. Smith as a blogger, according to Bob Feder’s media column in Time Out Chicago. Smith ...Third-party fundraising on noncoms now off agenda for this week’s FCC meeting
The FCC has dropped an agenda item on noncom on-air fundraising from its April 27 public meeting, “which more than likely means ...This Saturday’s webcast on public TV local production
The year’s second Public Media Futures forum, on public TV strategies in local production, will be webcast live Saturday, April 28, from ...“Women, War and Peace,” NPR, ProPublica win Overseas Press Club honors
WNET has claimed two Overseas Press Club awards, among several awarded to public media news organizations. The New York City station won ...Five words may sway women donors, academic researcher finds
An academic specializing in philanthropic psychology working with WFIU in Bloomington, Ind., has discovered that five words appear to boost contributions among ...All choral, all the time: MPR launches 24/7 choral stream
Banking on the strong Minnesotan tradition of choral music, Minnesota Public Radio is now offering a public-media first: a web stream of ...W.V. state pubcasting panel lifts contract and hiring freezes for station
A committee appointed by the Educational Broadcasting Authority in West Virginia to examine the financial health of the state’s public broadcaster met ...
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