Year: 2010
“War room” was integral to Detroit PubTV’s capital campaign efforts
A “war room” with white boards, dollar amounts and donor name targets helped Detroit Public Television/WTVS close out its 2009 $22 million ...Idaho PTV dodges state funding phase-out
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee of the Idaho legislature yesterday voted 19-0 to cut only 16 percent of Idaho Public Television’s state funding, ...NewsHour gets CPB grant for Student Reporting Lab
CPB has given the PBS NewsHour a $300,000 grant for a Student Reporting Lab project in six schools nationwide, reports Television Broadcast. ...South Dakota pubcasting faces 2 percent state funding cut
South Dakota is the latest state threatening cutbacks to pubcasting as part of overall budget tightening. A 2 percent cut to South ...Wednesday webinar to explore Google broadband experiment
Pubcasters can learn more about Google’s Fiber for Communities during a webinar Wednesday sponsored by American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio and the ...In the Loop, a NextGen show from MPR, ends run
Minnesota Public Radio has canceled production of In the Loop, a show that migrated from the broadcast airwaves to engage its audience ...Minnesota pubcasters, Georgia’s WUGA targeted in state budget battles
“I don’t want to overstate the case, but this could lead to signals going dark,” Allen Harmon, g.m. of WSDE-TV in Duluth, ...Knight Foundation, FCC broadband summit brings together policymakers
Today the Knight Foundation and the FCC are sponsoring “America’s Digital Inclusion Summit” at the Newseum in Washington, and satellite locations ...Broadcasters battle performance royalties while investment bankers court Pandora
The dispute over music performance royalties for radio airplay is heating up again, the New York Times reports. The MusicFirst Coalition, which ...Worldfocus to leave the air next month
WNET.org will discontinue Worldfocus [Word doc], its weeknight international news report as of April 2. The producing station was “a few million ...KUED sister agency receives broadband grant
Utah Education Network, a sister agency with KUED at the University of Utah, has received a $13.4 million federal Recovery Act grant ...CJR delivers progress report on Vivian Schiller’s agenda for NPR
“I’m not a command-and-control person,” Vivian Schiller tells the Columbia Journalism Review in a feature on her first year as NPR president. ...State funding cuts pose “greatest immediate danger” to pubTV service in rural areas
Of all the public TV stations facing steep cuts in state funding this year, Idaho Public Television is among those in “greatest ...Smiley organizes panel this month to discuss “black agenda”
PBS talk host and activist Tavis Smiley may have recently ended his annual State of the Black Union events, but this month ...A new twist on local history from WOSU
Columbus Neighborhoods, an engagement-focused website just launched by WOSU Public Media and the Columbus Metropolitan Library, invites visitors to explore and share ...
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