Programs/Content
New York’s WNYC celebrates 100 years with on-air birthday party
|
The July 8 event will include a reimagining of the station’s first broadcast exactly 100 years earlier.
Programs/Content
‘The Thistle & Shamrock’ will end Sept. 30 after 40-plus years
|
“The Thistle & Shamrock” airs on 237 NPR member stations, delving into new and traditional Celtic music through interviews with singers, songwriters and music experts.
People
Vox.com co-founder Melissa Bell will lead Chicago Public Media
|
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.
Programs/Content
WUNC to end its music stream and HD2 service
|
Radio listening trends and economics are too challenging to justify acquiring a terrestrial signal for the Triple A music service, says GM Paul Hunton.
System/Policy
CPB backs new journalism desk for Alaska’s stations
|
The two-year grant funds four new reporter positions and three shared editors.
System/Policy
Growing costs, falling sponsorship fuel wave of layoffs in pubmedia
|
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.
System/Policy
New Wisconsin Public Radio station honors late Executive Director Gene Purcell
|
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.
Development
Detroit PBS lands $7.5M matching gift as it plans new campus
|
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.
System/Policy
Nebraska Public Media receives donation of online news sites
|
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.
System/Policy
San Francisco’s KQED eliminates 34 positions
|
The station is also ending its podcast “Rightnowish.”
System/Policy
Boston’s GBH lays off 31 staff due to $7M budget gap
|
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.
System/Policy
Wife of lawmaker critical of Arkansas PBS joins network’s governing board
|
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced May 6 she had appointed Maria Sullivan to the Arkansas Educational Television Commission.
System/Policy
Public eye on NPR spurred editorial additions, says Chapin
|
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.
System/Policy
CapRadio, endowment at odds over proposed PBS KVIE merger
|
The Capital Public Radio Endowment Board argues that the best future for CapRadio would be a merger with the TV station.
System/Policy
CPB grant funds Nielsen Local Dashboards for PBS member stations
|
The Nielsen Local Dashboards are expected to be available to member stations beginning in late May and will show them “local market linear television audience data,” a news release said.
System/Policy
NPR CEO won’t attend House hearing on allegations of bias
|
A meeting of NPR’s board of directors, Maher’s first since joining the network, was scheduled for Wednesday more than a year ahead of time.
System/Policy
Orlando’s WMFE rebrands as Central Florida Public Media
|
Research had found weak brand penetration in the community beyond the station’s existing audience, said GM Judith Smelser.
System/Policy
Seattle’s KUOW lays off eight employees
|
The radio station will also leave three open positions unfilled and save $1 million by ending its RadioActive Youth Media program.
Development
You can buy Sarah Silverman’s dress in a New Hampshire PBS auction
|
The actress and comedian has worn the outfit at star-studded events. Apparently, she’s even ripped it.
System/Policy
FCC fines Pacifica Foundation $25,000 for underwriting violations
|
A consent decree adopted and released Tuesday requires Pacifica to implement a compliance plan and ends an FCC investigation of WBAI in New York City.