Tag: WNET
American Masters to shine light on reclusive author J.D. Salinger for 200th episode
The author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey died in January 2010 after living for more than 50 years as a recluse ...Nine Network of St. Louis recognized as ‘Best of the Best’ in 2012 NETA ...
The St. Louis public TV station’s Nine Academy, a program that trains individuals and community organizations to produce short videos on stories ...Second pubTV station pays fine for missteps handling federal grants
When the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts announced a settlement with Boston’s WGBH over its handling of $60 million in federal grant ...PBS, WNET to offer specials focusing on Newtown tragedy
With short turnaround, PBS and New York's WNET will offer two programs in the next two days focusing on the aftermath of ...CPB gives emergency grants to WNYC and WNET in Sandy’s aftermath
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today it will immediately give $250,000 each to New York City's most prominent public media stations.Pubcasters battered by Superstorm Sandy
When Superstorm Sandy slammed into the most populated region of the United States Oct. 29, claiming at least 90 lives and wreaking ...Robert Kotlowitz, father of pubTV icon series, dies at 87
Robert Kotlowitz, a pioneering public broadcaster at New York’s WNET who developed several public television series that became signature PBS programs — ...Closure, finally, in sale of Palm Beach pubTV station
Eight years after the “For Sale” sign first went up on WXEL-TV/FM, the transaction resolving the future of pubcasting in Florida’s affluent ...Current transition: Behrens to Everhart
Karen Everhart, senior editor of Current for 20 years, will succeed founding editor Steve Behrens after this edition. Larry Kirkman, dean of the American ...NPR promotes Wilson to chief content officer, Arnold departs PRI, and more…
NPR President Gary Knell has restructured the news organization’s top ranks, elevating digital chief Kinsey Wilson to executive v.p. and chief content ...Pubcasters, Daystar and others are eyeing KCSM bids
Potential bidders for pubcaster KCSM-TV in San Mateo, Calif., put up for auction by its college licensee, include both religious broadcasters and ...NewsHour picks up Bellantoni, WBEZ personnel changes, and more…
Bellantoni to oversee all <em>NewsHour</em> political coverage PBS NewsHour has a new political editor as of Jan. 2. Christina Bellantoni of CQ Roll Call oversees the ...Public television, 50, dies of apprehensive innocuity
Whenever public broadcasting is threatened by hostile politicians, the conventional wisdom is to circle the wagons and fire back. As a member ...Current owner transfers paper to American U.
Current is likely to have a new publisher in January — the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. Details of ...Accounting problems cost WNET $1 for every $7 in federal grants
WNET’s accounting problems have cost it $1.96 million out of a series of production grants totaling $13 million, following a two-year federal ...
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