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CPB awards $2.65M for state government coverage
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
“Southwest Florida in Focus,” a half-hour of TV news for Fort Myers and beyond, launched as a cost-effective model for producing local coverage.
The nonprofits partnered to win a five-year grant to educate children displaced by conflict in the Middle East.
Adding sound to tweets is a bit easier than working with audio on Facebook.
Tracy Wahl left NPR in November 2016 as executive producer for editorial franchises.
Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corp. in Richmond was a big winner among pubcasters in the FCC’s spectrum auction.
The founder of the Spanish-language radio network explains how he got into public broadcasting.
Public broadcasters have used the bonds to fund construction projects and signal expansions.
“I hope to diversify the voices that we hear on the air. I don’t just mean somebody telling my cultura stories, but also my other brothers and sisters from other cultures.”
Meanwhile, Kelly McEvers will leave the show to continue work with the podcast “Embedded.”
MPR gave up legal rights to the ‘Prairie Home’ name when it terminated its contracts with former host Garrison Keillor.
An investigation of alleged misconduct also prompted PBS to suspend distribution of his weeknightly talk show.