Author: Ben Mook
Possibility of native ads on pubradio sparks concern
DENVER — A public radio station’s foray into native advertising, which seamlessly integrates paid content into a website’s editorial fare, stirred strong opinions at ...Margaret Low Smith, NPR’s senior news veep, will depart for The Atlantic
Margaret Low Smith, NPR’s senior vice president for news, is leaving the network to take a position with The Atlantic as president ...NPR cancels ‘Tell Me More’, cuts 28 staff positions
A mandate for a balanced budget and a drive to reduce its production commitments spurred NPR to cancel Tell Me More, one of the ...NPR factors ‘mixed response’ from client stations into plans for Digital Services
With contract negotiations looming this fall, leaders at NPR member stations are getting increasingly vocal about what they see as shortcomings of ...Warring Pacifica factions take up court battle as financial woes mount
The ongoing standoff over Pacifica’s leadership reached the California courts last week, opening what could become a protracted legal battle over the ...PBS names Betsy Gerdeman senior VP of development
Betsy Gerdeman, former senior v.p. of development at KLRU-TV in Austin, Texas, has been named PBS’s senior v.p. of development services. She ...Border stations appeal Canadian agency’s crackdown on friends group charities
Canadian organizations that raise financial support for U.S. pubcasters are fighting a shift in tax policy that could threaten the funds they ...Ninth Circuit sides with FCC, upholds ban on political advertising for pubcasters
A federal appeals court last week upheld a ban on political and public-issue commercials on pubcasting stations, ruling that its removal would ...Pacifica’s financial woes drive Free Speech Radio News to shutter production
The financial stranglehold on Pacifica is taking down Free Speech Radio News, a progressive news show that relied on the five-station network for the ...Headlee developing weekly show covering ‘Middle Ground’ between east and west
Celeste Headlee, former co-host of The Takeaway, is launching Middle Ground, a pubradio show concentrating on the vast swath of the country ...Yet another puzzle for public TV fundraisers
A recent PBS Research analysis found that donors who contribute the most money to public TV rarely if ever watch its programming.Donated cars bring big bucks to public stations
The vehicle donation process that plays out from the donor’s first phone call to the check’s arrival at the station is opaque ...Gains, losses spread unevenly across pubcasting stations
Reductions in tax-based support for pubcasting have shortened the financial gap between public television and radio stations, accelerating public TV’s decade-long financial ...Spectrum speculator LocusPoint and KCSM licensee reach FCC auction deal
The contract paves the way for public TV station KCSM to go dark if a wireless company buys its broadcast spectrum.Kansas City pubTV buys Triple A music station
A new kind of public media signal expansion will rock Kansas City, Mo., under a license transfer agreement announced April 19 by ...
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