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The ‘ongoing process’ of diversity

Posted: December, 06, 2012
By Mike Janssen

Public radio stations trying to diversify their audiences, staffs and programming have found an increasingly active ally in NPR, whose leaders have been travelling to stations in recent months to help broadcasters walk the difficult walk of achieving diversity. Continue reading →

CPT's mobile venture to share revenues with PTV outlets

Posted: May, 13, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Connecticut Public Television has joined with a digital media company in rolling out a new mobile platform that will offer digital downloads of children’s programs. Continue reading →

New talking point on Capitol Hill: PubTV's role in education

Posted: March, 15, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Public television’s strongest case for preserving tax-based support for stations and CPB centers on informing political leaders about the full range of public-service work that stations deliver to local communities, particularly in the field of education, according to the field’s lead advocates in Washington, D.C. Continue reading →

New alliance in Mile High City

Posted: February, 01, 2013
By Dru Sefton

The latest merger agreement from Denver combines three different breeds of public media — flagship pubTV station Rocky Mountain PBS, community-licensed jazz broadcaster KUVO-FM and investigative digital news outlet I-News Network — in a consolidation that aims to build strength through diversity. Continue reading →

GPB hires governor’s pick for plum job

Posted: December, 17, 2012
By Dru Sefton

When Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal recently approached Georgia Public Broadcasting’s top exec about appointing outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers to lead the state network’s proposed initiative promoting economic development, GPB chief Teya Ryan agreed to make the hire. Continue reading →

From Massachusetts Ave. to NoMa

Posted: April 15, 2013

After five years of planning and construction, NPR marked the next phase in its evolution as a national news organization with the April 13 broadcast of Weekend Edition Saturday, the first to originate from its $201 million flagship headquarters. Continue reading →

A slideshow of pictures from the first broadcast at NPR’s new headquarters

Posted: April 15, 2013

WESAT from the new NPR headquarters, a set on Flickr. Current was on hand April 13 when Weekend Edition Saturday launched the first broadcast from NPR’s new $201 million headquarters on North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C. Click here to … Continue reading →

Arizona radio stations ask FCC for looser underwriting rules

Posted: April 12, 2013

The licensee of KJZZ and KBAQ in Phoenix has asked the FCC for temporary permission to sidestep the agency’s rules governing language in underwriting announcements in a test of whether “enhanced” sponsor messages could boost income. In a March 18 … Continue reading →

PBS FY14 draft budget has $11M content hike, no dues increase, thanks to income influx

Posted: April 11, 2013

PBS’s year-to-date financial results show a net income of $22 million instead of the estimated $100,000 net loss anticipated in its fiscal year 2013 budget, the PBS Board of Directors heard at their meeting April 9 at headquarters in Arlington, … Continue reading →

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