CPT's mobile venture to share revenues with PTV outlets
Posted: May, 13, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
Technology
Pubmedia-funded start-up accelerator Matter announces inaugural class
Posted: March, 06, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
Full speed ahead for Public Media Platform
Posted: December, 17, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
What can come of NPR’s release of an API giving access to its story database?
Posted: July 17, 2008Posted in Current‘s former online forum, DirectCurrent, by moderator Steve Behrens on July 17, 2008 at 12:28pm Last year, public radio’s Digital Distribution Consortium Working Group predicted (see page 10) that freeing content could result in mashups such as “a … Continue reading
TV industry mobilizing to reach portable screens
Posted: May 27, 2008Public broadcasters have devoted millions of dollars and plenty of angst to prepare for digital broadcasts that will put more channels and HD pictures on big living-room screens. But another DTV transition that’s even more exciting to some pubTV vets … Continue reading
How to stop more towers from collapsing
Posted: July 23, 2007At Mountain Lake Public Broadcasting in upstate New York, Alice Recore put $1.2 million into reinforcing and preparing WCFE’s 30-year-old tower for the DTV age. Across the continent at KSPS in Spokane, Wash., Bob Wyatt assiduously maintained and upgraded the … Continue reading
Talks on infrastructure
Posted: March 12, 2007Top pubradio executives have begun discussing ideas for a comprehensive “back end” digital storage and distribution system that backers say could support a wide range of services and help stations and networks advance efficiently into new media. The execs, who … Continue reading
Move to PBS’s ACE master control gets mixed reviews
Posted: September 25, 2006When Ed Caleca came to PBS a decade ago, he expected to see it through completion of the digital TV transition in ’06 before moving on. But media switchovers don’t stick to schedule. With PBS in unending, overlapping transitions, Caleca and colleague André Mendes are leaving their jobs, the network told stations recently. Continue reading
NPR rallies system to jointly build ‘trusted space’
Posted: July 17, 2006NPR launched the next phase of public radio’s New Realities process last week, releasing an ambitious plan to strengthen ties with listeners and foster better collaboration within the system. In its 12-page Blueprint for Growth, released to general managers July … Continue reading
Fundraiser’s past a red flag no one saw
Posted: August 8, 2005Before Nancy Kruse’s fundraising company closed, leaving more than $400,000 in expected public radio proceeds unaccounted for, Kruse’s company bio described her as, among other things, “director of The Writing Center in San Diego” who “has a master’s degree in … Continue reading