System/Policy
Options for Pacifica’s archives could include university partnership
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The National Federation of Community Broadcasters has also called for the archives to be transferred to an educational institution.
Quick Takes
WETA finds Passport members skew younger
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Passport donors who made their first gift to the station online were 47 years old on average.
Programs/Content
Trump associate’s comment about rape from 2013 public TV show enters campaign fray
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The comment was pointed out Monday by the Democratic Coalition Against Trump.
Tech
Meetings for station leaders will focus on ATSC 3.0 TV broadcast standard
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Business, technical and legal experts will update participants on the potential ATSC 3.0 holds for public media.
Quick Takes
New APM podcast revisits unsolved case of child abduction
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The podcast debuts Sept. 13.
Jazz
Tennessee station switches to Americana format
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WMOT partners with Music City Roots for the new format.
Development
Public TV sustainer growth may be slowing, but still shows progress
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Sustainers “are still the best possible source of membership revenue,” said Michal Heiplik of Contributor Development Partnership.
Quick Takes
Pittsburgh Public Media asks supporters to back jazz station
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The station needs to raise $150,000 by the end of the year to broadcast on a new FM signal.
Quick Takes
Greater Public donations help pubcasters after Louisiana floods
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More than $11,000 has been distributed to 12 station employees and their families.
System/Policy
Ow, Canada: Cross-border crackdowns take toll on station donations
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Border broadcasters are taking various approaches to handling challenges to Canadian friends groups.
Quick Takes
‘Prairie Home’ host announces new house band
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Two members are in Thile’s band Punch Brothers.
Development
Philadelphia’s WXPN reaches membership milestone
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The station’s donor base grew 11 percent over two years.
Quick Takes
Podcast audiences look increasingly like America
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The ethnic diversity of podcast listeners has grown in the last five years.
Quick Takes
WGBH, WNET Writers Guild members agree to new contract
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The deal provides a 3 percent increase in minimum salaries effective July 1, 2016.
Quick Takes
Wyoming Public Radio expands Triple A music
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The new music programming will air on three FM signals.
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
Channeling Charles Siepmann for public media’s future
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The media reformer and scholar urged listeners to remember that the “wavelengths of the air belong to the people of America.”
Quick Takes
Pubmedia win several awards at AAJA convention
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Pubmedia producers won awards in several categories at the Asian-American Journalists Association’s national convention this month in Las Vegas.
Quick Takes
APM, Washington Post seek submissions for new podcast on black history
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Submissions will be considered for “Historically Black,” an eight-episode weekly podcast set to launch Sept. 19.
People
Code Switch’s Montgomery to lead WAMU newsroom, Perzel leaves Cincinnati, and more comings and goings in public media
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Alicia Montgomery will be editorial director at the Washington, D.C., station.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #74: NPR ditches online comments — should you?
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Can comments work, or are time and money better spent on other forms of engagement?