Tag: Radio programs
Final NPR newsmag clocks will take effect Nov. 17
NPR has released the final versions of the new clocks for its newsmagazines and set a date of Nov. 17 for their ...Met reaches agreement with major unions, hopes to avoid lockout
The Metropolitan Opera has reached a tentative agreement with two of the three bargaining units representing its workers.Labor strife at Met could leave hole in classical stations’ schedules
A lockout at the New York opera house would force more than 300 stations to make tough choices.NPR delays implementing new program clocks until at least November
NPR will postpone implementing new clocks for its flagship newsmagazines until at least November after hearing concerns that an earlier transition could ...Documentary series The View From Here attracts national attention with multimedia, audience interaction
A documentary series produced by Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, Calif., focuses solely on issues in the station’s home state yet has ...NEH awards $2 million to pubmedia projects
Seven public media projects got a boost July 21 with the announcement of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which ...BBC cuts hundreds of jobs, increases funding for World Service
The pubcaster is restructuring its news division, with little effect on programs airing on stateside pubmedia.GPB Radio to operate Atlanta’s WRAS without tax-based funding
Georgia Public Broadcasting will fund its new daytime public radio news service on Atlanta’s WRAS through private revenues, not state subsidies, according ...Stations find no easy replacements for soon-to-be-canceled Tell Me More
The cancellation of NPR’s Tell Me More is leaving pubradio program directors struggling to fill the gap left by the show, which presented diverse ...Proposed NPR clocks would add morning newscasts, longer underwriting credits
A proposed revamp of NPR’s newsmagazines would allow for longer underwriting credits, expand the number of morning newscasts, and incorporate American Public ...New This American Life podcast will serialize investigative stories
This American Life announced today that it will launch a new podcast this fall, titled Serial. TAL host Ira Glass said on the show’s blog that ...StoryCorps launches initiative to collect LGBT oral history
The oral-history project StoryCorps is expanding its vast archive of Americans’ personal stories with OutLoud, a special initiative focusing on the LGBTQ ...New Hampshire Public Radio acquiring small classical station WCNH-FM
New Hampshire Public Radio is purchasing WCNH-FM, a 250-watt classical station that has been broadcasting from the state network’s Concord studios for ...Five New York pubcasters team up for CPB-backed regional newsroom
Five public media stations in New York will create a regional newsroom with a $375,000 grant from CPB, announced today. The two-year backing will support ...Pubcasters pick up 32 national Murrow Awards
Public broadcasting outlets and nonprofit news organizations took 32 of the 98 national Edward R. Murrow Awards presented this year by the ...
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