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
WGBH puts listings on an iPad
Posted: January 17, 2012WGBH has begun distributing its monthly program guide, Explore!, in a package that brings video and audio promos along with it to iPad tablets. It can also use Wi-Fi to pull in updated “live listings” from the Web even after it’s in the viewers’ hands. Continue reading
APM acquires Knight-nurtured Spot.us crowdfunding site
Posted: December 12, 2011Minnesota-based American Public Media announced Nov. 29 the future cohabitation of two new-media tools for use by public media newsrooms. APM’s Public Insight Network (PIN), which helps journalists find story topics and sources in their communities, has acquired Spot.Us, a … Continue reading
PRX gets some fuel to incubate public-media journalism tools
Posted: December 12, 2011With $2.5 million from the Knight Foundation, Public Radio Exchange will rev up a new Public Media Accelerator next year to assist new public-media journalism projects with seed money, mentoring and help in finding funds and investors. Knight stresses the … Continue reading
Ohio’s WYSO to boost signal power, move to better facility
Posted: October 3, 2011WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, will move to renovated studios and increase its signal strength from 37,000 watts to 50,000 watts before year’s end, thanks to a $1 million grant from its licensee, Antioch University, approved by the school’s board … Continue reading
Producers invited to crowdsource the translation of their programs
Posted: October 3, 2011Universal Subtitles, a project of the nonprofit Participatory Culture Foundation, is looking for long-form public media projects to translate into multiple languages through its crowdsourcing network. In January the project worked with the PBS NewsHour and volunteers to produce translations … Continue reading
CPB to equip 2 pubTV facilities as multistation master controls
Posted: October 3, 2011By having two or three big master-control facilities oversee the digital assembly and transmission of broadcast schedules for all of the nation’s public TV stations, the field could save tens of millions of dollars a year, according to Mark Erstling, … Continue reading
FCC plan could give LPFM apps an edge over FM translators
Posted: July 25, 2011Applicants for thousands of FM translators may have to reapply if the FCC goes through with its proposal to give new low-power FM stations a chance to compete for the same frequencies. In a July 12 Notice of Proposed Rule … Continue reading