National Federation of Community Broadcasters
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters PTFP funding for this fiscal year at $20 million is almost through! The Senate has passed its version of the FY2010 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill. The House and Senate now goes to conference. Once the Conference Committee has worked out agreements on the issues where the House and Senate bills disagree, it'll go to the President to sign.

Fri at 3:44pm
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters PTFP funding is almost here for the next FY. Yesterday the Senate passed its version of the FY 2010 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill. The House and Senate will now go to conference on the bill. Both bills contain $20 million for PTFP. Once the Conference Committee has worked out agreements on the issues it will go to the President to sign. We are almost there!

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National Federation of Community Broadcasters Applying for a PTFP grant in the next few months? Join our webinar on Successful PTFP Applications on Tuesday, Nov 10, at 12:00-1:00 PM PST. Register here:

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Duncan Cavanaugh
Duncan Cavanaugh
Can you guys explain what PTFP is...for the uninitiated? ThanksSS
Fri at 3:46pm
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters Important stuff for Indian Country and our vital native stations: President Obama's address at the opening of the Tribal Nations Conference and Interactive Discussion with Tribal Leaders.

Source: www.whitehouse.gov
WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. This site is a source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters Radio Phoenix celebrates its 1st year on the internet and are currently working on their new terrestrial station. Here's a cool article about them:

Source: www.azcentral.com
Radio Phoenix celebrates first year on the Internet, Radio Phoenix celebrates its one-year-anniversary of online streaming in the largest U.S. city without an on-air community station.
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters Tad's first day at NFCB as the new development coordinator. Wish him luck!

National Federation of Community Broadcasters

National Federation of Community Broadcasters Preparing the office for the arrival of a new staff person Monday morning: Tad Oyler, the NFCB Development Coordinator. Oooh, someone with Y-chromosomes!

October 30 at 2:20pm
Duncan Cavanaugh
Duncan Cavanaugh
Thought I read something about the Y chromosome going extinct? I guess this proves all that wrong!!
November 2 at 4:19pm
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters Live webcast of the Berkman Center's talk, "From Broadcast to Broadband: Redesigning public media for the 21st century" is taking place on 11/3/09 at 12:30pm ET. For a complete description, see the event webpage:

Source: cyber.law.harvard.edu
Tuesday, November 3, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Pacific and NFCB have been working to get a “Community” designation for community radio stations with RBDS. NFCB has signed onto the letter, but we need individual stations to endorse this idea as well. Please contact Ursula Ruedenberg at Pacifica (ursula@pacifica.org) if you are interested. H...
National Federation of Community Broadcasters

National Federation of Community Broadcasters NFCB and Radio for People are mobilizing to get community organizations to apply for full power FM NCE stations. The filing window is in February! The list of commercial vacant allotments reserved for NCE use can be found here. Come on, people!!!

Source: hraunfoss.fcc.gov
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters And now...John Stewart's take on net neutrality

Source: www.thedailyshow.com
John McCain fights net neutrality with the Internet Freedom Act of 2009. Airdate - 10/26/2009
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters This explains net neutrality well. Check it out.

Source: www.youtube.com
This is a video we made about free and open web access as a right for all people, with all interests, of all backgrounds -- it's for all of us. Enjoy - Jesse Dylan, FreeForm
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters If you've seen our list of 23 Pages that we've favorited and think we're missing any key organizations that have fan pages, please let us know. We want to make sure all the public media organizations out there have our FB fan page support!

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National Federation of Community Broadcasters Radio Research Consortium (RRC) has announced that Arbitron has released the 2009
Edition of Public Radio Today—a comprehensive profile of the people who listen
to public radio each week. You can download it for free.

Source: www.arbitron.com
Public Radio Today from Arbitron gives you a glimpse at the millions of people who listen to public radio each week. You’ll find valuable insights into their education and income profiles, and you’ll see the types and amounts of public radio programming they’re consuming.
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National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Berkeley-based SoundVision
Productions continues its six-day science immersions for producers with a call
for applications for the next session slated for April 11-17, 2010 in San Franscisco, CA. This opportunity is open to all
independent, station, and network-based producers, reporters, and news directors
looking to... enhance their science reporting skills. SoundVision will select up
to twelve of the applicants through a competitive application
process.
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Source: SchardtMEDIA.us1.list-manage.com
The "craft" sessions of the workshop have definitely stuck with me. They were really valuable in terms of story telling, creativity, sound, personality and emotion.