Year: 2017
DOJ subpoenas former OPB reporter in Malheur Refuge trial
John Sepulvado was subpoenaed to testify in federal court next week.Vermont PBS gains $56M from sale in spectrum auction
The station plans to invest the proceeds in programming.After WNKU sale, Cincinnati station adds Triple A service
Cincinnati Public Radio hopes to attract WNKU listeners after the station is sold.Sesame Workshop named semifinalist in $100M MacArthur Foundation grant competition
Its proposal, one of eight selected as semifinalists, targets children who face violence, limited access to education, loss of loved ones and ...PBS-commissioned survey finds 73 percent of voters oppose eliminating federal funding for public TV
Support for funding spanned all regions of the country, with most respondents citing public TV’s educational mission as its most important value.Pittsburgh’s WESA hires consultant John Sutton as GM
Sutton is stepping back from his consulting firm to run the station under Terry O’Reilly, CEO of licensee Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation. ...Who are the rising black talents in public media?
We need your help to identify up-and-coming talents whose names we don’t know yet and should.New Hampshire Public Radio goes to court in trademark dispute with ‘Outside’ owner
The owner of the outdoors-focused magazine had claimed that the name of an NHPR podcast amounts to infringement.Travel ban complicates VPR’s special coverage of refugee resettlement
Plans for the State Department to facilitate interviews fell apart while reporter Nina Keck was on the ground in Jordan.NPR’s Andrea de Leon to receive PRNDI’s Leo C. Lee Award, and other awards in ...
Also, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb will receive a Writers Guild award for his contributions to a “Frontline” documentary.Licensee sells Kentucky’s WNKU to religious broadcaster
The Bible Broadcasting Corp. will pay $1.9 million for the station.California station reaps $72M in spectrum auction proceeds
KRCB’s location was “considered prime real estate by mobile providers,” the station COO said.Love trumps competition for married couple reporting for Fox News, NPR
With Myre’s move to a new position at NPR, he and his wife Jennifer Griffin are again competing on a beat.WGBH allegedly dismisses reporter after discovering views on vaccines
The Boston Globe says WGBH released the reporter after learning of “past statements linking vaccines and autism.”Pennsylvania’s WVIA announces channel-sharing agreement
The station will receive $25.9 million in auction proceeds.
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