Why don’t more stations adopt 'sustainer' ways?
Posted: July, 09, 2012
Commentary by Valerie Arganbright and Barbara Appleby
Development
Facing financial woes, KCETLink to focus on ‘transmedia’
Posted: May, 01, 2013
By Dru Sefton and Ben Mook
Planet Money crowdfunder soars, PRI campaign falls short of goal
Posted: May, 16, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
Seeking the next $100 million
Posted: July, 09, 2012
Analysis by Mark Fuerst
Winning members at their doors
Posted: December, 03, 2012
By Dru Sefton
To save journalism, click ’n’ donate?
Posted: November 23, 2009Now a dot-com called Kachingle is starting to roll out an online service designed to make voluntary support easy for even the most Internet-dazed, pledge-averse, marginally committed and low-budgeted Medici to virtually toss coins, or dollars, to reward the online media they love and appreciate. Continue reading
Plant interferes with program funding, though just for 8 years
Posted: November 9, 2009A haze of assumptions hung over the film. “Nobody would go near the show,” Schwarz says. “This was the height of the drug war,” Pollan recalls. Continue reading
‘Sloppiness,’ not wrongdoing, led to probe, says WNET chair
Posted: September 25, 2009The leadership of WNET said a federal investigation into the station’s use of federal grants totaling almost $13 million is wrapping up, and the organization is financially sound. “There was sloppiness as opposed to real wrongdoing in terms of our … Continue reading
Why fund a whole doc?
Posted: September 8, 2009Few docs as substantial as The Principal Story, which airs on P.O.V. Sept. 15, are funded in full by a single angel, but this one was. The Wallace Foundation didn’t choose to cover the whole cost to make independent producers’ lives easier, though the grant did that. Continue reading
In Pittsburgh, members come first in credits
Posted: September 8, 2009Viewers like you — by name — have literally moved to the front of the line in underwriting credits at WQED in Pittsburgh. Since mid-August, a Mary Jones or Joe Smith of Anytown, Pa., who donated as little as $40 … Continue reading
Prenups: precautions for prudent producers
Posted: August 3, 2009Too many couples were splitting up before the offspring came along. Or they lived together grumpily, keenly aware they shouldn’t have had that second date. Ellen Schneider and her crew saw it was time for an intervention. Schneider’s San Francisco company, Active Voice, has published a 25-page booklet to turn things around: “The Prenups: What Filmmakers and Funders Should Talk About Before Tying the Knot.” Continue reading
Austin City Limits rides its brand downtown
Posted: July 20, 2009Austin City Limits is a hot commodity based on a cool brand built over 33 years on PBS. In two years it moves its entire production site downtown in the Texas capital city to a cornerstone 2,500-seat theater in a $300 million redevelopment. Continue reading