Tag: KQED
MPT collects Super Bowl wager winnings from KQED
Maryland Public Television can thank the Baltimore Ravens this week for helping the station win a supply of sourdough breads and chocolate. The ...For-profit start-up accelerator aims to make public media ‘Matter’ to Silicon Valley
The start-up accelerator unveiled a year ago as an experiment in bringing Silicon Valley’s culture of innovation to public media has rebranded ...KQED’s AIDS at 30 series wins award for excellence in radio
The series covered the 30th anniversary of the year the Centers for Disease Control reported that five previously healthy young men in ...Anthony Tiano, longtime KQED president, dies at 71
Anthony Tiano, president of KQED in San Francisco from 1979–93, died Aug. 12 at his home in Albuquerque, N.M. He was 71. At ...KQED, science academy team up for e-learning project
With Earthquake, an e-book and companion iTunes U course, KQED and the California Academy of Sciences shook up a new approach to multimedia ...NPR seeks deal to offer CRM to more stations
NPR Digital Services is negotiating with an unidentified vendor to provide cloud-computing products to member stations, potentially transforming the ways they manage ...Output: Prop 8 goes down in starry radio docudrama, online cultural essays graduate to videos at ...
On Sunday, June 10, L.A. Theatre Works debuts a radio docudrama about the federal court case that overturned the referendum that banned same-sex marriage in ...Unvetted war story slips past producers
A commentary created through an experimental radio project of the New America Foundation turned a harsh spotlight on the editorial vetting process at Marketplace, ...Northern Calif. combo lays off 30, including much of San Jose staff
Northern California Public Broadcasting, licensee of KQED-TV/FM and KTEH-TV in San Jose, laid off 30 employees and cut its budget 13 percent ...James Day, 89
He put San Francisco’s KQED on the air in 1954 — with Jon Rice, the station’s legendary first program director — and ...Obituary: Larry Hall, 74, advocate for independent producers
A leading advocate for independent producers and openness in the governance of public broadcasting, Laurence S. Hall died Feb. 21 [2004] after ...What Jon Rice gave to viewers and to friends
Jon might say that his prime legacy is this television station. What Jim Day and Jon Rice created from nothing more than ...Public TV programming ‘giant’ Jonathan Rice gone at 84
Jonathan C. Rice, the storied program director and co-founder of KQED-TV in San Francisco, died July 22 [2001] at the age of ...KQED made its mark by making programs
San Francisco’s KQED-TV remains one of the most-watched public TV stations in the country, but, in the 1980s and ’90s it suffered under ...KQED drops Mondavi project in underwriting controversy
KQED has dropped plans for a public TV documentary about pioneering Napa Valley winemaker Robert Mondavi after widespread newspaper reports ...
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