Development
With new app, a startup wants to make donating to public radio easy
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iWinQ’s developers hope to make inroads among listeners who don’t donate — a large share of public radio’s audience.
System/Policy
How WAMU and WYSO found success in reinvention
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At the 2017 Public Radio Program Directors conference, general managers from the stations shared insights about innovative strategies that powered growth.
Programs/Content
Music format highlighting hip-hop, other genres seeks home on public radio
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CPB is backing development of the new “Urban Alternative” format and looking for three stations to start airing it this year.
Currently Curious
Where do public broadcasting stations abound?
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A reader wants to know how many cities have duplicate NPR and PBS stations.
Programs/Content
Our public TV–watching parties continue
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We supply the iconic public TV shows, you bring your questions — and the snacks.
Programs/Content
View our online screening of William F. Buckley’s ‘Firing Line’
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With excerpts and interviews, we looked back at the influential public affairs show.
KMTP
San Francisco’s KMTP angles for channel-share after winning $87M in spectrum auction
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KMTP will create an endowment and use the proceeds to acquire access to wireless spectrum.
System/Policy
Sale of dozens of noncommercial signals in FCC spectrum auction earns minimum of $1.9 billion
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Check out our summary of how the spectrum auction appears to be playing out for public media.
System/Policy
Blue Ridge PBS will use $5.8M auction take to upgrade equipment, expand local programming
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Station President James Baum said viewers in the stations’ coverage area will not lose PBS service due to overlap from other broadcasters.