People
CPB’s Pat Harrison turns down Fiat awarded as raffle prize
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The decision was not a popular one among her family.
System/Policy
Fred Jacobs: “To a great degree, public radio has two audiences”
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The audience researcher discusses findings of his company’s latest Public Radio Tech Survey.
People
Third top departure from Greater Public, Bromberg retires in Milwaukee and other comings and goings in public media
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Ellis Bromberg will leave public broadcasting after almost 40 years.
Quick Takes
Deal with Miami station keeps NPR on air in Palm Beach
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WLRN reached an agreement with Educational Media Foundation, the translator’s new owner.
Programs/Content
David Remnick: “Radio is an obsession of mine”
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The New Yorker editor previews the magazine’s new weekly radio show, a collaboration with WNYC.
Programs/Content
WNET moves ‘MetroFocus’ newsmagazine from weekly to daily
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The public affairs show started four years ago as a web-only production.
People
Longtime WAMU host Ed Walker to retire
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Walker has hosted The Big Broadcast on WAMU since 1990 and helped launch the station in 1951.
Tech
Nielsen tweaks measurement of radio audience amid hush-hush adoption of Voltair boxes
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A Nielsen Audio chief engineer tacitly acknowledged that the company’s PPM technology does not fully measure listening in noisy real-world environments.
System/Policy
FCC issues initial bids for first phase of spectrum auction
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Among the larger opening bids for public television spectrum are $775 million for New Jersey Public Television and $672 million for WLIW, both operated by WNET.
Programs/Content
CBC approach to election coverage offers lessons for U.S. pubmedia
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The CBC digital team’s latest major voter-engagement initiative is a collaboration with Google’s civic engagement team.
Programs/Content
Drop in younger listeners makes dent in NPR news audience
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The trend could affect revenue for NPR and its member stations.
Quick Takes
It’s official: WPBT and WXEL are now South Florida PBS
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The two have been in talks on the deal for more than a year.
Programs/Content
KERA reels in awards, audience with multiplatform project on hip fractures
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“The Broken Hip” received widespread recognition, including an Online News Association award.
Spectrum
Florida public TV station examines options as spectrum auction looms
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The university has hired financial consultancy Bond & Pecaro to estimate WUSF’s spectrum value.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #40: Chris Satullo, WHYY’s former v.p. for news
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Satullo had big, somewhat unorthodox plans for news at Philadelphia’s dominant public radio and television station.
Obituaries
Attorney Marc Mangum dies; handled PBS copyright issues
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Mangum was lead attorney in PBS’s lawsuit against Internet TV service Aereo, which went to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Development
Pubcasters see upside from promoting EFT payments to sustaining members
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Donors who give via electronic funds transfers are more likely to renew and reduce headaches caused by credit-card data breaches.
Quick Takes
Oklahoma Watch receives $20K grant for live event series
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The Norman, Okla.-based nonprofit journalism site will undertake a series of community forums.
spectrum auction
Trustees at WUSF’s university vote to participate in upcoming auction
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The trustees did not vote on how the public TV station would participate.
WNYC
WNYC launches incubator for national shows and podcasts, aims to raise $15M
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WNYC Studios will incubate and produce national podcasts and radio shows in addition to distributing terrestrial radio programming to stations.