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Defunding CPB would devastate smaller stations, particularly those reliant on critical systems like the Public Radio Satellite System, the Emergency Alert System and SoundExchange agreements.
You can donate to support public media colleagues who are recovering from the devastation of L.A.’s wildfires.
Radio for the deaf,” a captioning technology developed and refined through an NPR Labs partnership, is moving into mainstream broadcasting with Latino USA
Google released updates to its Google Currents news-curation app March 20, including enhanced audio capabilities, and Minnesota-based American Public Media is taking advantage of them. The free app, currently available on Android platforms, has a structure similar to those offered by other digital news curators such as Flipboard and Pulse. Users subscribe to feeds from news outlets that appear as simple RSS lists or, if the provider has signed a licensing agreement with Google, as enhanced magazine-style content. Its latest updates include audio playlists and media bars with options to pause and skip tracks. More than 10 million users have installed Currents since its December 2011 launch.
Walt Bodine, a broadcaster who helmed a signature local talk show on KCUR in Kansas City, Mo., for nearly three decades, died March 24 at the age of 92.
PBS has ended production of Market Warriors, the Monday-night series that was a lynchpin in its strategy to hold on to viewers of Antiques Roadshow, the most-watched regular series in the primetime schedule.
Louisville Public Media topped its $4,000 Kickstarter campaign goal for Unbound, its new short fiction series, six days ahead of schedule. As of 4 p.m. April 3, the Kickstarter project had secured pledges totaling $4,153 from 141 backers. The campaign will conclude on April 8, so could secure additional pledges before it winds down. The first 10-episode season of Unbound is budgeted at cost $9,000. LPM sought $4,000 from Kickstarter backers and the remaining $5,000 from a sponsorship deal with Spalding University in Louisville.
Susie Hernandez, a past president of the Public Television Programmers Association, has accepted a newly created position at KQED in San Francisco as associate program director. Hernandez will work under veteran pubTV programmer Scott Dwyer. Most recently she was television program director at Arizona Public Media in Tucson, and previously worked at Independent Television Service in San Francisco in several capacities, including as director of broadcast for more than a decade. Hernandez begins work May 1.
TED, the nonprofit behind the high-profile conferences about ideas in technology, entertainment and design (as well as NPR’s new weekend series), and WNET will co-produce TED’s first original television show this spring. TED Talks Education will tape before a live audience Thursday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The New York City station is partnering with PBS and CPB for the hourlong program of short talks by education advocates on the theme of teaching and learning. TED Talks Education will air nationally May 7 on PBS as part of CPB’s American Graduate high-school dropout initiative. Musician John Legend will host.
Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me! and PBS’s upcoming Constitution USA, makes an appearance on the latest episode of comedian Marc Maron’s WTF interview podcast, posted April 3.
After more than two decades on the air, NPR’s Talk of the Nation will come to an end in June to make way for the newsmag Here & Now.
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. Jane Henson, widow of Muppets creator Jim Henson, died today at age 78 after a long battle with cancer, according to the Jim Henson Co., which posted a tribute page celebrating her life. Jane Nebel first met Henson in a puppetry class at the University of Maryland, where she was studying fine arts education. In 1954, while still an undergraduate, Henson was offered a job on WRC, the local NBC affiliate in nearby Washington, D.C., and he asked Nebel to join him in creating and performing puppets for the show, Sam and Friends. The two married in 1959 at her parents’ home in Salisbury, Md.