Year: 2013
Bruce Franchini, veteran pubTV producer and director, dies at 69
Bruce Franchini, a producer and director for San Francisco’s KQED-TV, died Nov. 13 of cancer. He was 69.FCC to delay broadcast spectrum auctions to mid-2015
FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced today that the agency is shifting broadcast spectrum auctions from 2014 to 2015. In a blog post, Wheeler ...SiriusXM picking up WGBH’s Innovation Hub
Innovation Hub, WGBH-FM’s weekly hourlong dive into big ideas and innovative technologies, goes national Saturday on SiriusXM’s public-radio content channel, XMPR. The program, distributed ...With crowdfunding, rethink your expectations for engaging public media’s supporters
As a growing number of public media organizations turn to Kickstarter to raise funding for new projects — with mixed success — ...Late WVTF music director’s family sues over his 2011 death
The children of Seth Williamson, a longtime music director and host at pubradio WVTF in Roanoke, Va., have filed a lawsuit against ...Dotcom entrepreneur invests $250K in Swell app
Jason Calacanis is betting big on Swell, the five-month-old app that curates podcasts and news reports. The angel investor, who co-founded the ...There’s Large trouble ahead on Doc Martin
Ian McNeice, the actor who plays rotund plumber-turned-restaurateur Bert Large, and Joe Absolom, cast as his lanky son Al, dropped some ominous ...CPB financial report shows pubradio closing the gap with pubTV
CPB recently released its Public Broadcasting Revenue report (PDF) for fiscal year 2012. Findings about the number of contributions, total contributions and the ...FCC details plans for moving ahead on LPFM applications
The FCC announced Tuesday details of its plan for working through the more than 2,800 low-power FM (LPFM) applications that it received during ...Knight and Ford donate $500,000 to reporting projects in Detroit and Michigan
Detroit may have filed for bankruptcy, but public-service reporting efforts there and in Michigan just got a big boost. The Knight Foundation and ...NEA’s Alyce Myatt returns to private sector next month
Alyce Myatt, media arts director for the National Endowment for the Arts and a former PBS executive, is leaving the NEA next ...Ruling reinforces advertising ban on pubcasting airwaves
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a constitutional ban on political advertising on public television and radio stations, Reuters reports. The 9th ...FCC Chair Wheeler advocates for public TV stations to sell spectrum
The new chair of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, is urging public broadcasters to sell their television bandwidth in upcoming spectrum auctions, reports ...Follow Planet Money’s Kickstarted T-shirt odyssey
The cotton T-shirt, a public radio merchandising staple, is front-and-center in a new multimedia project from NPR's economics reporting unit Planet Money.Seidel, Malesky and Carvin taking NPR buyouts, will exit by year’s end
NPR news executive Stu Seidel and librarian Kee Malesky have accepted buyout offers from NPR, and social media strategist Andy Carvin has ...
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