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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 ...CPB to equip 2 pubTV facilities as multistation master controls
By having two or three big master-control facilities oversee the digital assembly and transmission of broadcast schedules for all of the nation’s ...FCC plan could give LPFM apps an edge over FM translators
Applicants for thousands of FM translators may have to reapply if the FCC goes through with its proposal to give new low-power ...Cyberpirates to PBS: watch where you sail
Software vulnerabilities, including an outdated operating system used by PBS.org, allowed the pirate band of hackers LulzSec to sail deep into the ...CPB survives, but not the facilities program
This year, St. Patrick’s Day was the deadline for pubcasters to ask Uncle Sam for help replacing their ancient, failing transmitters, or ...Authorities probe for arson in Little Rock transmitter fire
Federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are investigating an April 2 transmitter fire at KUAR in Little Rock, ...NPR sees new roles for Public Interactive
NPR is proposing to give public stations more help in building and maintaining dynamic websites and mobile apps by reconfiguring its Boston-based ...Broadband rising on Native agenda
Native Public Media, a minority consortium incubated within the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for seven years, is striking out on its ...What’s that up there? (page 2)
AM: still used by several dozen pubcasters AM radio uses the low frequencies where radio began, which have much longer wavelengths. While FM ...What’s that up there?
Talk about collaboration! A typical FM/TV tower can be home to dozens of antennas for stations and other spectrum users. Five full-power TV ...Schedule: web platform model by year’s end
An NPR-led project this month officially launched planning for a joint Public Media Platform to put public radio and TV content on ...
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