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As the Public Media Platform prepares for its phased rollout across the system in January, Executive Director Kristen Calhoun is seeking opportunities and partners willing to experiment with its still-unknown potential.
January 2, 2014 | https://current.org/2014/01/pmp-ark-prepares-to-board-partners-ready-first-deployments/The whole idea behind American Masters, the biographical series produced at New York’s WNET, was to build a library of America’s cultural history. To meet that goal, Executive Producer Susan Lacy had to mount high-quality productions in sufficient quantity to make an impression on TV viewers and potential subjects.
May 20, 2013 | https://current.org/2013/05/lacy-coaxes-creative-talents-to-share-stories-of-their-lives/For a Localore project hosted by KVNF in Paonia, Colo., Julia Kumari Drapkin set out to invert the traditional model of science reporting.
February 25, 2013 | https://current.org/2013/02/pubradio-journalist-wants-western-colorado-to-see-change/Detroit’s WDET admitted in an August letter to donors that it used suspect advertising tactics in on-air fundraising spots promoting an ambitious music-restoration campaign.
September 14, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/09/wdet-apologizes-for-fundraising-spots-simulating-tape-decay/The Super Bowl is over.
June 6, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/06/avoid-the-penalty-dont-lose-sight-of-direct-mail-acquisition/The projects will help reimagine how local public broadcasters serve and engage their communities.
January 30, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/01/localore-backs-crowdsourcing-collaborative-doc-projects/Bill Moyers, in a speech to public TV program execs in Memphis Nov.
November 21, 2011 | https://current.org/2011/11/moyers-calls-for-a-convention-to-remake-system/Pubcasters joined more than 2,000 first-round applicants racing to pitch their broadband dreams for funding from the telecom piece of the government’s stimulus outlay.
They’re volunteering for the Obama administration’s push to extend broadband access to unserved and underserved communities. Among bids from pubcasters:
PBS seeks $8.7 million for a Broadband Communities initiative to expand its Digital Learning Library for schools, encourage public use of its video portal and establish broadband education outreach.
Florida Public Broadcasting requests $22.8 million for a statewide high-speed HELPS (Health, Education, Local, Public Safety) Network.
The National Black Programming Consortium put in for $11.5 million to build on the media skills training of its Public Media Corps.
September 21, 2009 | https://current.org/2009/09/access-goals-hitch-ride-at-light-speed/Text of Bill Moyers’ speech May 18, 2006, at the PBS Showcase Conference, Orlando, Fla.
May 18, 2006 | https://current.org/2006/05/moyers-the-best-is-yet-to-come-i-am-an-optimist/A week of rallies, petitions, public service announcements and entreaties to Congress persuaded the House of Representatives to restore the $400 million appropriation for next year that Congress advance-funded two years ago.
June 27, 2005 | https://current.org/2005/06/house-votes-2-to-1-to-restore-cpb-aid/Six months after retiring as host of PBS’s Now with Bill Moyers, the longtime journalist spoke to activists gathered for the conference in St.
May 15, 2005 | https://current.org/2005/05/moyers-speech-to-national-conference-for-media-reform-2005/Last year was a good year for the Independent Television Service.
June 24, 2002 | https://current.org/2002/06/twin-itvs-goals-capturing-diversity-on-videotape-getting-it-seen/When terrorists brought down the World Trade Center in an imploding, crumbling crash, they not only destroyed New York City’s highest buildings but silenced eight of its largest TV stations.
September 24, 2001 | https://current.org/2001/09/tower-collapse-takes-engineer-pubcast-signals/The 100 hours that made Glen Jones famous started and ended with a dream.
June 11, 2001 | https://current.org/2001/06/record-breaking-deejay-shift-100-hours-in-jersey-city/One evening in London, in 1966, Anne Darlington, a Johns Hopkins graduate on a Fulbright Fellowship, was surprised to see Louis Rukeyser, then chief of ABC’s London bureau, on a BBC interview program.
September 28, 1998 | https://current.org/1998/09/one-for-the-money-rukeysers-friday-evening-pavane-2/Believe it or not, there’s a stone tablet full of radio principles guiding This American Life. Ira Glass laid them out in a talk …
May 25, 1998 | https://current.org/1998/05/mo-better-radio/