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NPR shows it hasn’t learned its lesson
Editors at the Washington Free Beacon highlight public radio’s ongoing problems in the wake of its loss of federal funding. For decades, NPR clung to the fiction that it is…
Public broadcasting
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National Review Calls for Defunding NPR
Editors at National Review Online explain why now is a good time to stop spending federal tax dollars on National Public Radio. National Public Radio has every right to operate…
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If you miss UNC-TV’s ‘Front Row with Marc Rotterman’ …
… you miss features like the “Lightning Round.” Here’s a preview of this week’s edition. Tune in to UNC-TV at 8:30 p.m. for the full 30-minute show. It airs again…
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McCrory on NPR
With President Trump’s recent order lifting federal protections for transgender students in mind, NPR reached out to former Gov. Pat McCrory—who, in case you’ve been in a coma for the…
Elections & Public Integrity
Watch JLF’s recent 2016 election Headliner luncheon on the new North Carolina Channel
UNC TV’s new North Carolina Channel (the .4 option over the air and channel 1276 on Time Warner Cable) carries at 9:30 this evening a rebroadcast of the John Locke…
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UNC TV plans for the future, ‘beyond Downton Abbey and Elmo’
Times are changing for public television in North Carolina, and leaders of the UNC TV network shared their ideas for change during a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury…
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Pope Foundation responds to ‘unfair attack’ from Bill Moyers
Some public television viewers will watch a new documentary from former LBJ public relations flak Bill Moyers. The Pope Foundation takes issue with Moyers’ latest spin-doctor efforts, as discussed in…
Education
UNC TV to produce and broadcast DPI TV program
I could not find many details on the NC Department of Public Instruction’s Open House TV program. The monthly NC State Board of Education contracts report mentions that the state…
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I Love a Mystery
Craggy Brewing Company is going out of business. December 1 will be its last day. “This is exciting!” said some local leader, surely. It shows how economic development incentives work.…
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One question about WTVI: Why?
Says here that WTVI is going back to what it once was, carrying first-run PBS programming. In doing, so it is carrying exactly the same material most nights of the…
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FCC Says WCQS OK
Fred Flaxman tried to prevent the FCC from renewing WCQS’ broadcast license. Flaxman formed the Ad Hoc Committee for Responsible Public Radio, and collected signatures for a petition. The FCC,…
Law & Public Safety
Big Bird needs a job—in the private market
Here is a NCPA summary of a Cato Institute paper about public broadcasting. Assailed from all sides with allegations of bias, charges of political influence and threats to defund their…