Quick Takes
New York’s WMHT expands Triple A service to new FM signal
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WMHT acquired an FM station in September that will now simulcast its WEXT signal.
Programs/Content
‘We are the carriers’: Lessons from WMHT’s multimedia ‘Vietnam in a Word’
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Producers at the New York station sought stories from a variety of community members as they tried to create a broad dialogue about the Vietnam War.
Programs/Content
Station town halls connect lawmakers and constituents in tense times
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The public broadcasters have found various ways to handle protesters, politicians and outsized community interest.
Programs/Content
WMHT teams with local newspaper to tell story of heroin’s impact
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A multimedia project explores the epidemic afflicting the station’s New York region.
Programs/Content
Five New York pubcasters team up for CPB-backed regional newsroom
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Five public media stations in New York will create a regional newsroom with a $375,000 grant from CPB, announced today. The two-year backing will support Upstate Insight, which CPB called “an innovative model for covering news across a large geographic area.” Principal partners are WXXI, Rochester; WSKG, Binghamton; WRVO, Oswego; and WMHT, Troy. WBFO in Buffalo is an associate partner. In the announcement, CPB said the stations “will develop news data capability and adopt content sharing and communications systems to support connectivity between organizations.”