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Satradio merger okayed without pubradio provisions
The compromise package of fines and consumer protections imposed by the FCC in exchange for approving the merger of the Sirius and ...What can come of NPR’s release of an API giving access to its story database?
Posted in Current‘s former online forum, DirectCurrent, by moderator Steve Behrens on July 17, 2008 at 12:28pm Last year, public radio’s Digital Distribution ...TV industry mobilizing to reach portable screens
Public broadcasters have devoted millions of dollars and plenty of angst to prepare for digital broadcasts that will put more channels and ...How to stop more towers from collapsing
At Mountain Lake Public Broadcasting in upstate New York, Alice Recore put $1.2 million into reinforcing and preparing WCFE’s 30-year-old tower for ...Talks on infrastructure
Top pubradio executives have begun discussing ideas for a comprehensive “back end” digital storage and distribution system that backers say could support ...Move to PBS’s ACE master control gets mixed reviews
When Ed Caleca came to PBS a decade ago, he expected to see it through completion of the digital TV transition in ...NPR rallies system to jointly build ‘trusted space’
NPR launched the next phase of public radio’s New Realities process last week, releasing an ambitious plan to strengthen ties with listeners ...Fundraiser’s past a red flag no one saw
Before Nancy Kruse’s fundraising company closed, leaving more than $400,000 in expected public radio proceeds unaccounted for, Kruse’s company bio described her ...Peace declared in the great Bronx tower war
At a feel-good press conference May 13, all parties hailed the resolution of a decade-long fight over the tower of Fordham University’s ...Thumbs up for APTS digital-only strategy
With a show of hands, all but a few public TV station chiefs attending an APTS Capitol Hill Day meeting Feb. 24 ...Half of public stations miss DTV sign-on deadline
More than half of the country’s 357 public TV stations missed the May 1 deadline to begin digital broadcasting, according to APTS. As of ...Meeting the HD demand: PBS matching rollout to buyers’ slow uptake
With its pockets emptier than usual and few viewers demanding high-definition pictures, PBS is moving to HD more cautiously than the commercial ...FCC thumbs-up starts radio’s digital age
The FCC has approved the front-running technology for digital radio, known as IBOC, but it dismissed or delayed action on several concerns ...On the road with a circuit-riding Native American radio engineer
Lakota radio engineer Alex Lookingelk rides the highways of Wyoming, Montana and North and South Dakota, covering as many as 5,000 miles ...Content Depot: Getting audio gets flexible
This summer public radio will get a taste of an impending change in the technological status quo: the Content Depot. This far-reaching set ...
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