It’s not clear what objectives the political appointees of the Alabama Educational Television Commission had in mind when they came out of an executive session on June 12 and voted 5–2 to fire the state-operated public TV network’s top managers. … Continue reading
Allan Pizzato, executive director of Alabama Public Television for the past 12 years, has left that position. A press release from the station provides no details. The Alabama Educational Television Commission (AETC) announced Tuesday (June 12) the appointment of Don … Continue reading
See also more complete story from print edition of June 25, 2012. Two top managers at Alabama Public Television were fired from their jobs June 12 with no explanation of the cause for the immediate dismissals. The Alabama Educational Television … Continue reading
See also Current coverage. Alabama network’s mission statement before the Alabama Educational Television Commission revised it June 12, 2012 Alabama Public Television Mission, Vision, Values, and Diversity Statement MISSION Each of us is born with a natural desire to learn. … Continue reading
In a compromise with the few pubTV stations that carry religious programming, the PBS Board voted June 16 to allow them to keep their PBS membership without dropping the shows. Member stations also can carry worship services and other clearly … Continue reading
A public broadcaster removed unexpectedly from the board of Catholic Church- controlled KMBH public radio and TV in Harlingen, Texas, is heading an effort to create an independent pubradio station in the Rio Grande Valley. Betsy Price of Brownsville and … Continue reading
The nightmare scenario is probably familiar to anyone who ever worked an on-air fund drive: What if nobody pledges? In February, KMBH-FM, the public radio station in Harlingen, Texas, cut short its fundraiser because it received only six pledges in … Continue reading
Pittsburgh jazz/news station WDUQ finds itself in the middle of an abortion-politics hardball contest between its licensee, Catholic-run Duquesne University, and Planned Parenthood. Soon after WDUQ began running Planned Parenthood underwriting spots Oct. 8 [2007], the university ordered the station … Continue reading
Five months after the conflict developed between Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and its public radio station, WFDD, the faculty’s Senate Ad Hoc Committee on WFDD released this report, Feb. 2, 2000. Mike Janssen, a WFDD reporter, later became an … Continue reading