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  • February CDP Index: New donor acquisition reaches ‘crisis phase’ for radio

    As we enter 2024, the Membership Revenue Index shows a modest year-over-year increase of 1.9%. As has been the case throughout the preceding year, TV/Joint Licensees are experiencing greater growth at 2.3% than Radio at 1.2%.

  • Austin Fuller joins Current’s editorial team

    Austin Fuller, a journalist who previously covered business for the Orlando Sentinel, joined Current Monday as a reporter.  Fuller Fuller has 10 years of experience in daily journalism. At the Sentinel, he covered publicly traded and privately owned companies with headquarters in Orlando, including Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden, and Publix Super Markets.

  • Bill sparks concerns over independence of West Virginia Public Broadcasting

    The West Virginia legislature has passed a bill that raises new questions about the editorial independence of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.  Senate Bill 844 reassigns hiring authority for WVPB’s executive director from its governing board to the state’s Secretary of the Department of Arts, Culture, and History, an appointee of the governor.   “This move certainly takes our public broadcasting closer under the wing of the government,” Elliot Hicks, chair of the Friends of West Virginia Public Broadcasting, told Current in an interview. The Friends of West Virginia Public Broadcasting is a nonprofit that solicits donations and manages annual membership donations for WVPB.