Author: Jacqueline Conciatore
Minnesota net endows itself with sale of mail-order firm
With the $120-million sale of for-profit sister company Rivertown Trading to Dayton Hudson, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) gains a secure subsidy while ...Merger: we’re not talking now, but we might be talking later
It may be a simple question–are PRI and NPR talking about a merger?–but that doesn’t mean it gets a simple answer. To ...A rough few months for San Francisco’s KALW
The KALW situation is marked by problems and issues resonant in public radio. Most familiar: distress with institutional licensee.C-SPAN steps in as buyer of WDCU in Washington
As the prospective new owner of jazz station WDCU took constant heat over the past month from jazz lovers and public radio ...If you love ‘This American Life,’ you really love it
This American Life is unlike anything on public radio. But what would you expect from a man who once devoted an hour of Talk of ...WNYC’s Walker: ‘We need to be more New York’
Observers are watching hopefully as Laura Walker, the first CEO hired to run WNYC as a private entity, sets out to double ...CPB Board sets audience criteria for radio grants
With no vocal opposition to a CPB task force’s proposal to add audience size to the criteria for radio station grants, the ...Native American net to launch next month
Indian country’s first satellite radio network is set to launch Oct. 31 with a weekday hourlong anthology of native programming from producers around the ...
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