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Needed: courage to shape digital video future
"Today I want to lay out a vision for how we can invent our future, a future where public television is serving ...GMs take up PBS plan to expand web video output
Three dozen general managers have coalesced around a proposal by PBS Interactive chief Jason Seiken to jump-start low-cost local video production at ...Q&A: ‘Building on strengths’ key to PBS strategy
After stints in the cable world as producers and programmers, PBS execs Beth Hoppe and Donald Thoms returned to PBS last August ...Advocates press FCC to open more channels for LPFMs
NPR, the National Association of Broadcasters and advocates for low-power radio expressed opposing views to the FCC in a proceeding that will ...Jacksonville to host second centralcast facility for public TV
The pull of economic strains and push of technical advancements continue to spark collaborations among stations, with seven pubTV outlets signing onto ...Suspects charged in connection with 2011 cyberattacks on PBS, other entities
Five suspects, considered among the “most sophisticated hackers in the world” by authorities, were arrested and charged Tuesday (March 6) in Manhattan ...Frontline alumnus will lead incubator for new ventures
Public Media Accelerator, a laboratory for developing new-tech public services backed by a $2.5 million grant from the Knight Foundation, will be ...FCC authorized to auction off TV spectrum
Legislation enacted last week to authorize FCC auctions of TV spectrum contains some protections for pubcasters, but broadcasters will face technical challenges ...Capital: With federal aid gone, tech fundraising starts from scratch
The evaporation of the Commerce Department’s Public Telecommunications Facilities Program and the dwindling of other funding sources have created a critical situation ...NPR app for motorists gets radio from the Web as well as stations
Some new Ford cars will let their drivers shout “hourly news!” or “topics!” and choose public radio programming either on their local ...WGBH puts listings on an iPad
WGBH has begun distributing its monthly program guide, Explore!, in a package that brings video and audio promos along with it to iPad ...APM acquires Knight-nurtured Spot.us crowdfunding site
Minnesota-based American Public Media announced Nov. 29 the future cohabitation of two new-media tools for use by public media newsrooms. APM’s Public ...PRX gets some fuel to incubate public-media journalism tools
With $2.5 million from the Knight Foundation, Public Radio Exchange will rev up a new Public Media Accelerator next year to assist ...Ohio’s WYSO to boost signal power, move to better facility
WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, will move to renovated studios and increase its signal strength from 37,000 watts to 50,000 watts before ...Producers invited to crowdsource the translation of their programs
Universal Subtitles, a project of the nonprofit Participatory Culture Foundation, is looking for long-form public media projects to translate into multiple languages ...
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