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Brad Dancer named GM of WSHU Public Radio
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Dancer replaces Rima Dael, who left in December to become CEO of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters.
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Dancer replaces Rima Dael, who left in December to become CEO of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters.
The longtime host will leave the program in October 2025.
The 51st is planned to begin as a newsletter, with the goal of starting publication in the fall.
Submissions by Aug. 7 will be used for a 2024 update to AIR’s rate guides.
Santamaria takes the helm this month at SCPR, which operates LAist, and replaces CEO Herb Scannell, whose retirement was announced in September.
The station offered the voluntary buyouts in May, with CCO Kristen Muller saying at the time the organization faced a budget shortfall over the next two years.
Public media’s response to the problems facing local news has not been “commensurate” with the crisis, the report said.
The July 8 event will include a reimagining of the station’s first broadcast exactly 100 years earlier.
“The Thistle & Shamrock” airs on 237 NPR member stations, delving into new and traditional Celtic music through interviews with singers, songwriters and music experts.
Bell, who co-founded Vox.com in 2014 and became publisher of parent company Vox Media in 2016, will take the helm at CPM Sept. 3.
Radio listening trends and economics are too challenging to justify acquiring a terrestrial signal for the Triple A music service, says GM Paul Hunton.
The two-year grant funds four new reporter positions and three shared editors.
Current has tracked more than 400 jobs lost to layoffs or buyouts since March 2023, including at operations as different as NPR, Chicago Public Media, GBH in Boston and WBHM in Birmingham, Ala.
WEPP, which will begin broadcasting Thursday on 90.7 FM in Rice Lake, Wis., gets its call letters from Purcell’s given name, Eugene Patrick Purcell.
Detroit PBS revealed May 30 the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation will match up to $7.5 million as the station raises money for its new campus.
NPM is engaging with freelance writers who have covered arts and culture in the Omaha area to resume publishing online content later this summer, according to CCO Nancy Finken.
The station is also ending its podcast “Rightnowish.”
GBH is also suspending the shows “Greater Boston,” “Talking Politics” and “Basic Black” but plans to “reinvent” them as digital-first programs, said CEO Susan Goldberg.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced May 6 she had appointed Maria Sullivan to the Arkansas Educational Television Commission.
With NPR in the news, questions circulated about what the network wanted to do and what would be helpful, said Editor in Chief Edith Chapin.