Quick Takes
‘PBS NewsHour’ announces February Democratic debate in Milwaukee
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The program will be a joint production with Milwaukee Public Television and WUWM-FM.
System/Policy
KPLU launches $7 million campaign to survive as independent station
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The station has only six months to raise the funds.
Programs/Content
Study will examine future of classical music in pubmedia
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Led by the Station Resource Group, the project aims to help stations grow audience and navigate their digital futures.
System/Policy
A ‘racing form’ for the FCC spectrum auction
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Learn whether your station or others in your market could be “winners.”
Tech
Out of many, NPR One: The app that wants to be the ‘Netflix of listening’ gets more local
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A big update moves NPR One yet another step in the direction of becoming a one-stop shop for all audio content, from local newscasts to podcasts outside the NPR world.
Quick Takes
Detroit Public TV and WKAR-TV to announce partnership
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The development will “impact public television across the state.”
System/Policy
Consultant’s report favors cloud-based system for new public TV interconnection
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There is considerable urgency for public TV’s leadership to address the issues raised in the report.
Downton Abbey
On-demand programs prove alluring to PBS station members
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Since PBS’s Passport service launched last month, more than 30,000 members have signed up to watch Downton Abbey and other marquee offerings.
Programs/Content
‘Snap Judgment’ to develop television show
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The show will include animation, short stories and live storytelling.
Quick Takes
PRSS will reduce audio levels a year after initial proposed date
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What was initially billed as a “temporary” level boost ended up lasting nearly three years.
People
NPR appoints new programming VP
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Anya Grundmann takes over after filling in on an interim basis since May.
Apps
Michigan Radio PD will join NPR to focus on ‘local experience’ of streaming app
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Tamar Charney will be the local editorial lead for NPR One.
Programs/Content
California public media stations team up for 2016 election coverage
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KPCC, KQED, KPBS and Capital Public Radio have formed the California Counts Collaborative.
Quick Takes
Congressman proposes more cash for spectrum repack after auction
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The bill also would allow the FCC to give stations extensions past the 39-month repacking deadline.
Obituaries
Tracy Carter, developer of Myers’ ProTrack software, dies at 49
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“Tracy was an incredibly kind, intelligent and unassuming individual,” said Crist Myers.
Programs/Content
Courage needs company: toward a weekly ‘Reveal’
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Public media has a critical role to play in balancing the enormous deficit in public service journalism since the collapse of the legacy news business.
Quick Takes
Stalker of public radio DJ sentenced to probation
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Patrick Henry Kelly received five years of probation.
People
NPR tech reporter quits to build ‘a new kind of radio’
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The former Planet Money reporter thinks the public radio system isn’t doing enough “to make the jump into the digital age.”
People
Eight producers sign on as NGL Fellows, Anderson leaves WUCF and other comings and goings in public media
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Next Generation Leadership is a CPB-backed project to grow diversity in public media.