Author: Julian Wyllie
KVCR receives $4M investment from California state legislature
The funds will help KVCR pay for PBS and NPR programming, which it had previously proposed cutting to offset budget deficits.House Appropriations Committee recommends $565M for CPB
The measure approved for consideration by the full House proposes an increase of nearly 27% from CPB’s current funding levels and recommends ...Comings and goings: Heather Riddle to lead development for APMG, Mike Sauter named VP for ...
Riddle, who most recently worked for Augsburg University, succeeds Randi Yoder, who retired.Sean Plater appointed GM for WHUT
Plater, an alumnus of licensee Howard University, plans to expand content production and oversee the launch of local ATSC 3.0 signals.GBH and author Kwame Alexander partner for children’s series on music education
Alexander will be a co-EP for the production alongside Marcy Gunther, director of media development for children’s media at GBH. Kay Donmyer, ...Maine Public taps Rick Schneider as CEO
Schneider returns to public media as successor to Mark Vogelzang, who retired June 30.Tom Calderone named CEO for Buffalo Toronto Public Media
Calderone succeeds Donald Boswell, who is retiring after more than two decades of leadership of the stations.Comings and goings: GBH Kids promotes EPs, Rick Holter to leave KERA …
GBH promoted Dorothea Gillim to creative director and Marisa Wolsky to director of children's STEM media.Becky Magura named CEO of Nashville Public Television
Magura, who will join the station in September, is leaving WCTE in Cookeville, Tenn.Study points to ways public media could build teen and tween audience — and risks of ...
"If we don’t engage them now, the teens and tweens of today might not as adults of tomorrow value public media.”One up, one down: New Jersey station receives state funding, Pennsylvania’s lose appropriation
NJ PBS received $1 million, its first appropriation in a decade, while seven Pennsylvania stations lost support.Comings and goings: John Van Hoesen to retire from VPR, C.J. Janovy rejoins KCUR …
Van Hoesen joined the station in 2001.CPB board boosts CSG funds by delaying Healthy Network Initiative for second year
Board member Ruby Calvert said setting aside the initiative for another year is “the right thing to do.”PBS FY22 budget increases station dues, spending on content and marketing
PBS CFO and Treasurer Tom Tardivo said the new dues amount to a “modest increase.”Travis Hendryx appointed GM for Smoky Hills PBS
Hendryx previously worked for newspapers in Kansas and radio stations in Texas.
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