Year: 1998
Minnesota net endows itself with sale of mail-order firm
With the $120-million sale of for-profit sister company Rivertown Trading to Dayton Hudson, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) gains a secure subsidy while ...Fred Friendly: ‘a tough man but, my God, full of ideas’
Fred W. Friendly, the legendary CBS News producer who tried to bring innovation to public TV in the 1960s and later developed ...Merger: we’re not talking now, but we might be talking later
It may be a simple question–are PRI and NPR talking about a merger?–but that doesn’t mean it gets a simple answer. To ...Seven years in a ‘dynamic environment’
Cecily Truett and Larry Lancit rolled the dice. In the spring of 1991, they took their production company and its best known ...Funny and civilized Frank Muir: patron of Pythons and radio games
Hands-up, all those who listen regularly to My Music, the half-hour radio panel game produced by the BBC and distributed by WFMT-FM in Chicago ...A rough few months for San Francisco’s KALW
The KALW situation is marked by problems and issues resonant in public radio. Most familiar: distress with institutional licensee.Eh-oh!
Over the hills and far away, Teletubbies come to play. In Teletubbyland, a lush green landscape of undulating hills spotted with clumps of bright ...Fred Wiseman’s novelistic samplings of reality
As I write these words, Frederick Wiseman’s 30th film, Public Housing, is about to be broadcast, Dec. 1 [1998], through PBS, the national network ...We’ll look back on this old Barney: an early input-output gizmo you could hug
Dolls have talked for years, but it was Microsoft’s ActiMates Interactive Barney that became a full-fledged peripheral for the computer–with hints of ...
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