Tech
Demo Day marks ‘rite of passage’ for Matter startups
Matter, the first startup accelerator backed by public media, unveiled the latest iterations of its inaugural class’s technology products June 13, introducing ...Master-control alliance in Florida gets $7 million from CPB
The Digital Convergence Alliance, a single master-control facility in Florida ramping up to serve public television stations in four states with customized ...Podcast lawsuits provoke pubmedia attention, presidential action
A brewing legal fight initiated by Personal Audio, a Texas-based company that claims to have invented podcasting technology, has entered a new ...CPTV’s mobile venture to share revenues with PTV outlets
Connecticut Public Television has joined with a digital media company in rolling out a new mobile platform that will offer digital downloads ...PBS wades into over the top content streaming with new Roku apps
As of May 8, owners of Roku Internet streaming TV set-top boxes gained access to the first-ever curated collection of PBS shows ...Boston audience plays along with High School Quiz Show
Audiences of WGBH’s High School Quiz Show can now play against Massachusetts whiz kids through an online game that launched early this month. The ...PubTV urges commission to drop ‘OET-69’ proposal
CPB, PBS and the Association of Public Television Stations are jointly opposing a proposal by the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology ...From Massachusetts Ave. to NoMa
The April 13 broadcast of Weekend Edition Saturday was the first to originate from NPR's new $201 million headquarters.WGBH’s Accessible Media center waives theater captioning fees
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at WGBH in Boston is permanently waiving license fees for ...Live radio captioning goes nationwide with Latino USA
Radio for the deaf,” a captioning technology developed and refined through an NPR Labs partnership, is moving into mainstream broadcasting with Latino ...SoundCloud rolls out beta Pro Partners service; KQED among first partners
SoundCloud, the Berlin-based web company that serves as a hub for listening to and sharing audio, added a new tier of service ...NPR to pilot alerts for people with hearing disabilities
NPR will test a system for delivering emergency alerts to individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing in Gulf Coast states under a ...The name needs revamping, but podcasts are here to stay
If you’re a public radio station without a plan for how to take advantage of the remarkably flexible and creative platform of ...PBS pushes message of digital innovation at SXSW
During a March 10 appearance at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, PBS President Paula Kerger talked the talk of digital innovation, ...Pubmedia-funded start-up accelerator Matter announces inaugural class
The first start-up class of Matter, the media accelerator backed by Knight Foundation, KQED and the Public Radio Exchange, includes Localore partner ...
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