Tag: Pittsburgh
PubTV tests new approaches for fundraising with kids’ programs
Though public television stations have been reluctant to solicit pledges during their daytime PBS Kids block, some are testing new approaches for ...Judy Jankowski, 61, managed prominent jazz stations
Judy Jankowski, who held top management positions at several public broadcasting stations, died Dec. 17 [2011] at Kindred Hospital in Westminster, Calif. ...Funders buy time for rethinking in WDUQ sale talks
When Duquesne University declined to accept bids for WDUQ-FM by its staff and supporters, an alliance of Pittsburgh foundations stepped in to ...Abortion issue heats dispute over WDUQ underwriting
Pittsburgh jazz/news station WDUQ finds itself in the middle of an abortion-politics hardball contest between its licensee, Catholic-run Duquesne ...WQEX deal wins at FCC, loses in the end
Seventeen million dollars slipped through WQED’s fingers last week when a partner in its long-delayed deal to sell sister channel WQEX abruptly ...Commissioners’ statements on WQED second station decision, 1999
FCC members approved the proposed sale of WQED’s second station, WQEX, in a split vote. See also the text of the order, ...FCC order accepts transfer of WQED’s second station, 1999
On Dec. 15, 1999, the FCC approved a swap/sale deal that would have enabled Pittsburgh public TV station WQED to sell its ...FCC refuses to de-reserve WQED’s second station, 1996
Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Deletion of Noncommercial Reservation of Channel *16, 482-488 MHz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania MEMORANDUM ...This time we let our listeners hear directly from candidates
In fall 1992, a number of public broadcasting’s gatekeepers opened their gates to give candidates unedited, unmediated “free time” to talk with ...
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