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
Accounting problems cost WNET $1 for every $7 in federal grants
Posted: June 21, 2010WNET’s accounting problems have cost it $1.96 million out of a series of production grants totaling $13 million, following a two-year federal investigation of the big New York station’s grant accounting. Federal lawyers and the licensee — Educational Broadcasting Corp., … Continue reading
Funders buy time for rethinking in WDUQ sale talks
Posted: May 17, 2010When Duquesne University declined to accept bids for WDUQ-FM by its staff and supporters, an alliance of Pittsburgh foundations stepped in to put the sale on hold May 4. Adding an unusual time-out to the high-stakes playbook of colleges divesting … Continue reading
Incentives for ‘diversity, innovation’ come with big CPB grant to PBS
Posted: April 19, 2010CPB and PBS are completing an agreement that may lead to the agency’s first annual grants for the PBS National Program Service based on measures of diversity and innovation in programming and related projects. Sources tell Current that this funding … Continue reading
Next PBS chief content officer rules all content— as long as it’s on-air
Posted: April 13, 2010After starting the process to hire a new chief content officer, PBS has reduced the purview of the job. The CCO will oversee TV programming but will no longer supervise PBS Interactive and web content. The position also lost oversight … Continue reading
For PBS pledge shows, overlap stations must pay extra or play later
Posted: April 13, 2010The PBS Board tweaked its rules governing one of public TV’s touchiest ongoing internal disputes March 31, stepping in as a referee between major-market stations that are full members of PBS and the smaller Program Differentiation Plan (PDP) stations in the same markets that buy part of the PBS schedule — usually with restrictions on broadcast dates. Continue reading
PBS won’t raise dues income again next year; Kerger warns it may lose capabilities and impact
Posted: April 5, 2010Paula Kerger wants public TV stations to know that the combination of flat station dues, dwindling resources and balanced budgets may be slowly strangling PBS’s ability to fund new-media innovation. “We can’t continue to go down this path,” the network … Continue reading
It’s a plan
Posted: March 24, 2010Comic recreation of a gripping behind-the-scenes drama playing itself out at the Federal Communications Commission, animated using Xtranormal technology.