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Video: Growing the Latino audience at KPCC in Los Angeles
A look behind the scenes at the station’s efforts to reach a new community of listeners.NPR Labs to end run as stand-alone unit after losing consulting work
NPR will integrate NPR Labs into its general budget and tighten its focus on public radio after almost five years of running ...Salt Lake City’s KCPW hits fundraising goal to keep programming
With a day to spare, Salt Lake City’s KCPW-FM hit its goal of raising $42,000 to pay off delinquent programming fees and ...GPB coming to Atlanta airwaves with WRAS-FM deal
In a channel-sharing agreement announced Tuesday, Georgia Public Broadcasting will expand its public radio service into the Atlanta market starting June 1 ...Study evaluates strength of public radio’s “halo” for sponsors
ATLANTA — The positive associations that public radio listeners have with corporate sponsors and underwriters are as strong as ever, according to ...Life cycle of a reform: independence of CPB Program Fund
Ron Hull, a former director of the Program Fund, reflects on the value of buffer from partisan politics Jan. 2, 1979 — Robben ...Rochester indie-movie venue now operated by WXXI
WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., has acquired a downtown movie house, The Little Theatre, it announced Dec. 19. The art-deco theater, founded in ...Mattel acquires Kids Sprout channel partner HIT Entertainment
Toy giant Mattel is buying HIT Entertainment, part owner with PBS and Sesame Workshop of the Kids Sprout children’s educational cable channel, ...WFCR takes new name: New England Public Radio
Western Massachusetts broadcaster WFCR-FM has adopted a new name — one that seems to speak of ongoing expansion: New England Public Radio. ...CPB launches $4.4 million, 20-station American Graduate program
CPB kicked off its American Graduate initiative Tuesday (May 3) at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The $4.4 million project aims to ...O’Keefe sting, part 2: Attempt to hide $5 mil gift blocked by Slocum, Schiller
In the second part of the right-wing undercover sting of NPR, released Thursday (March 10), a senior fundraiser told one of the ...Forty years ago: KPFT bombed off the air twice in its first year
Pacifica Radio’s KPFT in Houston “was the first radio station in the United States to be bombed off the air” in May ...Where the Crossroads films and funding went
CPB’s big America at a Crossroads initiative funded 20 independently produced documentaries on aspects of the post-9/11 world, at a cost not wildly above ...University accepts WLIU fans’ bid for station
Long Island University last week agreed to sell WLIU-FM to a nonprofit set up to maintain the main public radio station on ...PBS buys stake in National Public Media
PBS has purchased a 10 percent equity share in National Public Media, the national on-air and online corporate sponsorship rep whose clients ...
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