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
Watch our screening and panel discussion of Marlon Riggs’ ‘Tongues Untied’
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The latest installment in our “Get With the Program” series focuses on a groundbreaking 1991 film.
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.
System/Policy
After release of results, stations announce plans for FCC auction largesse
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The big sums will help to expand services, pay off debts and enable technical upgrades.
System/Policy
Virginia network gets $182M from sale of two stations in spectrum auction
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The stations air a mix of international programming, including some locally produced shows.
System/Policy
Watch CPB’s CEO testify before Congress
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Pat Harrison visited the Hill to explain why public media deserves federal support.
System/Policy
How key committee members in Congress have voted on pubmedia funding
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Past votes may indicate how legislators weighing in on CPB’s appropriation will address the White House’s proposed end to federal funding.
Quick Takes
Tennessee station reportedly fires journalist after complaints from state lawmakers
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The reporter’s story captured some candid remarks about proposed legislation that would affect transgender high-school students.
Development
Former employees describe end of Oregon call center
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Our coverage of the demise of Comnet Marketing Group brought responses from former staffers.
Development
NPR Board approves donations from overseas NPR One listeners
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The network had to change its bylaws to allow contributions directly from individuals.
Development
Podcasts’ strong ad sales help NPR reach second year of budget surplus
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“I think you can expect the growth that we saw to continue through the first quarter of 2017,” said Bryan Moffett, g.m. of National Public Media.
System/Policy
Coloradan seeks to serve fellow immigrants with low-power FM station
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KETO will broadcast in a variety of languages, aiming to help newcomers assimilate to life in their new country.
Development
Collapse of Oregon call center leaves public media in the lurch
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Comnet Marketing Group apparently shut down with little notice and murky explanations.
NPR
Reshuffling of NPR Music includes farewell to ‘Microphone Check’ team
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The network is also deepening partnerships with stations and filling new roles in the division.
Awards
Texas Tribune, ProPublica lead nonprofit ONA winners
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Two winning reports aired on public radio’s “Reveal” and “Marketplace.”