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While rhetoric flows, WFUV and opponents seek alternative tower site
Fordham University’s WFUV-FM and its opponents across the street at the New York Botanical Garden have been quietly pursuing an alternative site ...How NPR webifies its programming — and you can, too
Nobody in public radio has encoded and streamed as much audio on the Internet — or had to automate the handling of ...LPFM rules still disputed; Congress may act
Applicants for low-power FM (LPFM) stations range from mundane (Sacramento’s Sutter Middle School) to exotic (the Women on Top Awareness Series of ...NPR asks FCC to delay, rethink low-power FM
NPR took a different tack March 16 in the ongoing assault on the FCC’s controversial plan to license low-power FM (LPFM) stations. ...FCC rejects petition to alter DTV modulation standard
The argument over the digital TV standard will continue, though the FCC tried to put it away Feb. 4 [2000], unanimously denying ...Uneasy dilemma for public TV: stick with DTV standard?
Which would be worse? Raising ungrounded fears about DTV technology that spook the public and delay the transition for years? Or ignoring ...Nonprofits courting DBS for set-aside channels
A ground-floor chance to secure channel space on direct broadcast satellites is opening up for noncommercial organizations that have the wherewithal to ...Rural translators threatened with loss of their frequencies
Translators — the lonely relay-runners of broadcasting — are a rural institution under siege. While pubcasters use hundreds of them to reach ...More, deeper, broader: where ‘enhanced’ DTV goes
If you were among a certain handful of people watching the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick bio Frank Lloyd Wright Nov. 10–11, you could get a ...DBS ruling: FCC reserves 4% of channels for education
Direct broadcast satellite companies will have to set aside 4 percent of their video channel capacity for noncommercial educational programming, the FCC ...HDTV debut: full-blown spectacle
Even on crappy old analog TV — the way nearly all of its audience will see it Nov. 9 — PBS’s premiere ...Pubcasting on the Web, three years later
PBS Online is celebrating its third anniversary this week with a doubled staff, an expanded mission, an upgraded teachers’ service that opens next month, ...Court gives WFUV fifth victory for its tower plan
New York state’s highest court early this month unanimously upheld WFUV-FM’s right to complete the radio tower on Fordham University’s Bronx campus, ...FCC gives public TV 6 years to go digital
The year 2003 doesn’t seem so far off when you’ve got plenty to do in the meantime. Between now and then, public TV ...Make it shorter and hang flags from it
The New York Botanical Garden, still fighting the completion of a nearby 480-foot tower for WFUV-FM, told the FCC late in October ...
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