Year: 2010
Study of 21 pubTV stations shows median of 57 underwriters
A 7 a.m. session with an overflow crowd? The results of the 2010 Local Underwriting Category Study lured folks in, coffee in ...APTS board forms CEO search committee
The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) Board of Trustees has formed a CEO search committee to fill its top spot, vacated ...PBS.org plans for online national fundraising heats up session in Austin
In a sometimes acrimonious session at the PBS national meeting in Austin, station reps and PBS execs faced off over the controversial ...Scholarship and studio named in honor of Smiley’s producer, Sheryl Flowers
Tavis Smiley and Clark Atlanta University have donated $25,000 each to establish the Sheryl Flowers Scholarship at the university. Flowers, a Clark ...New standard proposed for mapping impactful public media: Zing!
How do you define success for a media project that reaches beyond broadcast and tries to engage audiences Web 2.0-style? In an ...APM reassigns American RadioWorks doc unit
American Public Media is cutting production of American RadioWorks, the investigative documentary series that won a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton in January. MinnPost’s ...Edwardson dies; helped create Florida’s WUFT-FM
Mickie Edwardson, who helped found University of Florida’s pubradio WUFT-FM in 1981, died May 15 at age 80 following complications from an ...Kerger opens Austin meeting with vision for pubmedia, and tale of Hippie Jack
Tiny WCTE, Upper Cumberland Public TV in Cookeville, Tenn., got a shout-out from PBS President Paula Kerger in her opening remarks at ...Public affairs: What the invisible hand of the news market leaves all too invisible
People consuming public affairs coverage because of duty or a fascination with policy create a demand for news with context, ...Detroit PubTV’s Hamilton moves to Michigan day school
Detroit Public Television senior development veep Kelley Hamilton is moving to the University Liggett School, an independent day school in Grosse Pointe ...PTPA meeting under way in Austin
Pubcasters are streaming into Austin for the big PBS Showcase/Development Extravaganza/Annual Meeting/Networking-a-palooza. First up, PTPA meeting. A Twitter Critter from the latest ...WHYY opening $12 million Public Media Commons
A $12 million capital improvement project is nearly complete at dual-licensee WHYY in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Inquirer says. The Dorrance H. Hamilton Public Media ...What public stations should consider about upgrading HD Radio power
Two of NPR’s top technologists recently back from the NAB Show share the microphone to weigh the pros and cons for stations ...Funders buy time for rethinking in WDUQ sale talks
When Duquesne University declined to accept bids for WDUQ-FM by its staff and supporters, an alliance of Pittsburgh foundations stepped in to ...
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