Topic: DN! MI PBS Campaign

Parade Magazine is asking its readers to voice support for or against federal funding of public broadcasting. If you believe that the federal government should continue its support for PBS, NPR, and local Public Television and Radio stations, please go to http://pbsmail.org/ct/813J19s1DYX0/survey and vote YES!

(Please note that the above link will automatically redirect you to http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_05-04-2008/Intelligence_Report, where the actual polling takes place.)

From all of us at WTVS Detroit Public TV, thank you.

 

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After a nine-month search, Detroit public television station WTVS-TV (Channel 56) has found its new leader in the middle of Detroit's AM radio dial.

Rich Homberg, vice president and general manager of all-news WWJ-AM (950) since 1996, has been named president and general manager of Detroit Public Television. The move, announced Tuesday, fills the top slot left vacant last April when former president and general manager Steven Antoniotti resigned unexpectedly.

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Mekeisha Madden Toby
Detroit News Television Critic
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060325/ENT02/603250304/1034/ENT

Oral history of fight to gain equal rights is narrated by Lily Tomlin and will air on PBS tonight.

Marj Levin remembers a time when divorced women couldn't establish credit, battered women had very few places to go, if anywhere, and suitable child care was the unobtainable Holy Grail for many working mothers.

 Read full article: 'Women's movement in Michigan documented Tonight' (153 more words)

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