Month: June 2012
If CPB is defunded, 130 stations are ‘at high risk,’ Booz report finds
What if Congress stopped allocating federal aid to pubcasting? The latest bleak financial analysis from CPB, released last week, adds some specifics ...FCC to clear translator backlog, create new LPFMs
The FCC took another step March 19 toward licensing more low-power FM stations, a move long advocated by community radio leaders. The ...CPB grant to NPR backs expanding foreign coverage
CPB has awarded a $500,000 grant to NPR to support the network’s international news coverage. The grant, announced at a March 26 awards ...‘If we can imagine it, why don’t we do it?’
It was raining in Baltimore Sept. 23 when independent producer Jay Allison delivered his “benediction,” the traditional closing speech of the Public Radio ...San Mateo college district puts KCSM-TV up for sale
As expected, the San Mateo County (Calif.) Community College District announced Dec. 7 it is seeking a buyer for public broadcaster KCSM-TV. ...US Ignite partnership will push for apps using a faster, smarter Internet
The state-operated Utah Education Network and several municipalities are among about 100 members of US Ignite, a new partnership creating services for ...Car Talk led the way to homogenization of noncom radio, writer says
“Car Talk is the exemplar for consolidation and homogenization on the noncommercial end of the dial,” writes Paul Riismandel, adviser to WNUR-FM at Northwestern ...Letter threatened JPR Foundation with ‘expensive’ lawsuits
Southern Oregon University’s law firm threatened the Jefferson Public Radio Foundation board with “expensive” lawsuits in a letter addressing issues of ownership ...Longtime Sesame Street writer dies
Judy Freudberg, who wrote for Sesame Street for almost 40 years, died June 10 of a brain tumor, according to Hollywood Reporter. She was 63. Freudberg ...Alabama PTV’s Jon Beans host, producer, dies at 50
Jon Beans, a reporter and host on Alabama Public Television for more than 20 years, died June 13 at a Montgomery hospital ...Three trophies put WNYC atop pubmedia’s Murrow winners
WNYC led public media in the 2012 national Edward R. Murrow Awards announced June 12 by the Radio Television Digital News Association. ...JPR Foundation, SOU reach ‘tentative resolution’ in standoff over leadership
It appears that Southern Oregon University and the fundraising organization for Jefferson Public Radio made progress in their mediation talks held last ...Ahoy, NPR journos!
Public Radio at Sea, a cruise that’s “a celebration of the exceptional programming and beloved personalities of NPR,” sets sail next March. ...Pioneering progressive rock DJ Pete Fornatale dies at 66
Pete Fornatale, who got his start at the Fordham University’s WFUV-FM as an undergrad in 1964 and went on to become an ...Mark Pearson, Market to Market host, dies at 54
Mark Pearson, host of Iowa Public Television’s nationally syndicated Market to Market, died June 2 at grain and livestock farm in rural Madison County ...