Colorado Public Radio is adding an arts news bureau and online arts hub, using a $900,000 grant from Denver’s Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. Max Wycisk, station president, said the grant will “transform the organization” by providing its first full news bureau and … Continue reading
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed cutting state aid to public television and radio by 42 percent in the next two fiscal years. State policymakers allocated $1.04 million to Kansas pubcasters for fiscal 2013. Under the budget proposal unveiled by … Continue reading
Ashlie Wilson Pendley, a senior producer at Georgia Public Broadcasting, has resigned to protest the station’s decision in December to hire a former state legislator at the suggestion of Gov. Nathan Deal. Pendley detailed her decision to leave the station, … Continue reading
The host of WTTW’s popular restaurant review Check Please! series, which spawned several local versions across the pubcasting system, is departing after 10 years. Alpana Singh is leaving the Chicago program to devote more time to her own new restaurant, … Continue reading
A list of attendees at the Jan. 15 pre-bid meeting for KCSM-TV in San Mateo, Calif., reveals only one public broadcasting-related entity so far. Participating via telephone in the meeting were John Schwartz, Kevin Lindsay and Ken Devine of Independent … Continue reading
Charles Scruggs, known to Memphis children as “Mr. Chuck” on WKNO Public Television for more than a decade, died Jan. 18, reports the Commercial-Appeal. He was 80 years old. Beginning in the 1990s, Scruggs hosted Number 10 Friends Circle and … Continue reading
Newman’s Own Foundation, established by actor Paul Newman, has provided the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network with a $125,000 grant to provide workforce development training to returning veterans, who face some of the highest unemployment rates in the state. “Although many … Continue reading