The ‘ongoing process’ of diversity
Posted: December, 06, 2012
By Mike Janssen
System/Policy
CPT's mobile venture to share revenues with PTV outlets
Posted: May, 13, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
New talking point on Capitol Hill: PubTV's role in education
Posted: March, 15, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
New alliance in Mile High City
Posted: February, 01, 2013
By Dru Sefton
GPB hires governor’s pick for plum job
Posted: December, 17, 2012
By Dru Sefton
Stewards for the media future
Posted: October 18, 2010In the first part of this commentary in Current Oct. 4 [2010], Wick Rowland, an early PBS planner and now a station leader in Colorado, said that public broadcasting’s failure to put time and money into formal research and planning … Continue reading
KCET’s split from PBS leaves uncertainty for both
Posted: October 18, 2010It’s official: KCET, one of the biggest siblings in the PBS family, is leaving home for good. Although station President Al Jerome has complained for years about high network dues and the contentious overlap situation with KCET’s three PBS brethren … Continue reading
Three years of talks fail to end dispute over KCET’s dues
Posted: October 18, 2010June 2007: In a presentation to the PBS Board’s Station Services Committee, KCET protests that its dues assessments are disproportionately high and the other PBS stations in the Los Angeles market are overstepping their rights as part-time PBS members (PDP). … Continue reading
Adrift, mute and helpless
Posted: October 4, 2010The FCC’s recent National Broadband Plan and its Future of the Media initiative have highlighted a chronic problem in U.S public broadcasting: The system has no long-term policy planning capacity, and therefore it always has had great difficulty dealing with … Continue reading
KCET warns it may leave PBS
Posted: August 9, 2010After negotiating with PBS for eight months over a proposal to reduce its dues and remake public TV in the Los Angeles market, the city’s biggest public station announced last week that it is preparing to completely drop out of … Continue reading
Without PBS dues relief, KCET says it will quit PBS at year’s end
Posted: August 5, 2010After negotiating with PBS for eight months over a proposal to reduce its dues and reconfigure pubTV in the Los Angeles market, the city’s bigget public station announced this week that it may drop out of the network by Jan. … Continue reading
Panel to weigh state spinoff of NJN
Posted: July 6, 2010The governor says the state can’t afford New Jersey Network anymore. NJN’s leaders say it would do better as a nonprofit anyway. But the NJN employees’ union predicts that a spun-off nonprofit NJN inevitably would fade away, its valuable assets and New Jersey news lost forever. Looks like the ideal time for a Legislative Task Force on Public Broadcasting, lawmakers decided June 29. Continue reading