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With Film Academy, WQED prepares students for careers in digital media
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Acquisition of a teen workforce-development program has helped fill a gap in the Pittsburgh station’s educational programming.
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Acquisition of a teen workforce-development program has helped fill a gap in the Pittsburgh station’s educational programming.
The program has grown to 30 participating libraries since 2014, with an additional 10 launching this year through West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
So far, five tunes, in genres from hip-hop to lullaby, are featured online as “The Sweater Sessions.”
We hear from leaders at three of the stations involved in the statewide collaboration “Battling Opioids.”
WITF will share a channel, and WQED will move to a lower frequency.
Kaiser had “an expansive view of the quality that could be achieved by a fledgling organization with a passion to serve,” said a station president.
The joint licensee is undertaking drastic measures to tackle a decades-old debt that once topped $17 million.
The board is aiming to reduce the station’s fiscal 2016 budget by 6.8 percent compared with the prior fiscal year.
Plus: A radio producer is a USA Knight Fellow, and Mashable covers Curious City.