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Analog television debris: Where oh where to put it?
CPB is planning a station survey to determine the extent of a problem that has crept up practically unnoticed during planning ...Nine pubTV stations plan digicasting to mobile devices by year’s end
Broadcasters, including nine pubTV stations and more than 50 network affiliates, will launch mobile DTV in 22 markets later this year, proponents ...Wave of brief analog shutdowns are clear warnings to over-air viewers
As if they march under the banner, “Leave no grandma behind,” commercial and public stations, city by city, have begun a series ...More power for HD Radio, more buzz on analog
An extensive study by NPR Labs points to significant trade-offs between the audience reach of digital HD Radio and the amount of ...Public Interactive repositioned as online utility for the system
Two initiatives led by NPR will soon offer station websites greater automated handling of editorial content and national sales of underwriting to ...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 ...
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