Month: November 2014
Friday roundup: MPT plans huge veterans’ event; Kartemquin co-founder dies
Plus: Dead mechanics write no columns, and Montana drops PRI.Study of engaging digital stories helps stations’ newsrooms set priorities
A new vocabulary is emerging in public radio newsrooms to help journalists communicate and make decisions about online coverage that attracts and builds ...“Evolution and revolution” coming as ATSC readies new broadcast standard
Five years after pubcasters switched off the last of their analog TV transmitters and advanced into an all-digital world, planning is underway ...Auction delay allows time to think hard about selling spectrum
Selling or keeping spectrum is perhaps the most consequential decision that the current generation of public television station executives and their boards ...Remembering Tom Magliozzi’s ‘bright light’
Tom Magliozzi, co-host of public radio’s wildly popular Car Talk, died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease Nov. 3. He was 77. Magliozzi was born ...Incoming Republican chairs include ‘powerful friends’ of public broadcasting, says APTS president
SAN DIEGO — Patrick Butler, public television’s chief advocate on Capitol Hill, wants to reassure broadcasters who are nervous about the incoming ...PBS to test whether core series can bring in pledge dollars
PBS has set the lineup for an upcoming fundraising test that will use a full week’s schedule of first-run National Program Service ...Fundraising groups focused on public TV shows expand to bring stations under tent
Four specialized charities cultivating big donations to benefit some of PBS’s most popular programs are gaining traction in the crowded and competitive ...Wednesday roundup: Zoboomafoo lemur dies; that’s Mailchimp
Plus: NPR's ombud weighs in on a story from El Salvador, and IowaWatch weighs the fate of a radio show.Public Radio Satellite System adopts new standard for audio levels
The Public Radio Satellite System adopted standards Thursday intended to normalize audio levels among the programs it distributes to stations. PRSS adopted an ...APT offers MST3K episodes to public TV stations
SAN DIEGO — Mystery Science Theater 3000 could be headed for public television. It’s one of some 75 shows that public TV programmers are previewing at ...Monday roundup: APT kicks off; WTVI boosts revenue
Plus: Jian Ghomeshi and the CBC's bigger problems; and Melody Kramer's proposal for convening communities.Masterpiece expands hours with “gushing pipeline” of classics, mysteries
Masterpiece will concentrate on bolstering its popular Classics and Mystery! strands with an boost in support from its main sponsor, Viking River Cruises. Executive Producer ...Radio Diaries takes gold at Third Coast, and other awards in public media
An update on the life of Teenage Diaries subject Melissa Rodriguez took the top prize at the biennial festival.Friday roundup: WYPR union bid fails; stations plan to add news, cut classical
Plus: A blogger considers a classical app, and the Onion tells the truth about Ira Glass.
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