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Million Puppet March to support public broadcasting in America
The Million Puppet March (formerly Million Muppet March, renamed because PBS can't afford to be perceived as political) is on for today in DC. Everyone's meeting at at Lincoln Park (East of the...
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How to save the CBC, making it a global online participatory leader
In my latest Guardian column, What Canada's national public broadcaster could learn from the BBC, I look at the punishing cuts to the CBC, and how a shelved (but visionary) BBC plan to field a...
View Article100 bold ideas the BBC can use to fight back
With five more years of Tory government on the horizon, the BBC is at its most perilous moment. Government ministers are attacking it in every way, from wanting to cut the license fee to demanding that...
View ArticleThe time the BBC News reported that "there is no news"
I suppose no news was good news on April 18, 1930. At 6:30pm during the regularly scheduled news bulletin slot, the BBC News announcer turned on the mic and said: "Good evening. Today is Good Friday....
View ArticleTV Dreamland
This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.: When TV producer Phil Savenick started collecting vintage TVs and TV memorabilia, he didn’t anticipate that he’d end up with what he now calls a “dreamland of...
View ArticleThis fellow has the archetypal sports announcer voice
Acting coach Bob Menery is not a professional sports announcer... yet. Watching him talk gives me the same weird sensation as seeing Mel Blanc do Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Below is an older video of...
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After an injunction against Pacifica radio, New York’s WBAI is back on the air
Yesterday, volunteers and staff at New York's beloved Pacifica Radio affiliate, WBAI, got an abrupt notice informing them that Pacifica had shut down the station, in order to prevent its "financial...
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Wife number two, junk car supplier, computer chuckles, and other fantastic...
80snewsscreens is a fantastic Instagram feed featuring screengrabs from 1980s TV news segments, promos, and on-the-street interviews with excellent "lower thirds," the text or graphics added to the...
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