Author: Austin Fuller
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 ...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 ...San Francisco’s KQED eliminates 34 positions
The station is also ending its podcast "Rightnowish."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 ...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.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 ...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.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 ...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 ...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.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.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.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 ...Oregon Public Broadcasting partners with Lookout Local to bring more news to Eugene
Lookout CEO Ken Doctor describes Lookout Eugene-Springfield as a “community newspaper that happens to be digital.”In FCC comment, NPR voices concern over costs of multilingual emergency alerts
The FCC has proposed creating a process for prescripted alerts in 13 additional languages to be distributed by TV and radio stations, ...
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