Public media and the coronavirus
Stations plan for staying on air with remote staff
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Public radio managers are implementing measure as they face the possibility of extended disruption to operations.
ATSC 3.0
WKAR debuts platform that offers ‘stepping stone’ to ATSC 3.0
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The Apollo PublicTV Platform, which debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show this month, aims to help broadcasters experiment with the broadcast standard even before fully transitioning to the technology.
Featured in Category
At BizLab Summit, stations share lessons from experiments with new income streams
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The center for pubmedia innovation is urging participants to “fail fast” with bold efforts to find new revenue sources.
System/Policy
In FCC proceeding, APTS makes case for aiding FirstNet
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“To leave public television stations … on the sidelines of the FirstNet infrastructure is to ignore a robust, reliable and ubiquitous partner whose public safety capabilities have proven effective in a variety of critical use cases,” APTS told the FCC.
System/Policy
WLVT adds radio signal to its news initiative for Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley
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Under a management agreement with Lehigh University, the PBS station will provide the region’s first local NPR News station.
Tech
Never-ending winter hampers conversion of TV translators
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Engineers at public TV stations in the Mountain West are still coping with wintry weather as they try to complete their pieces of the national conversion of translators to new channels.
Tech
Public Media Group unveils strategies to build a public-private Next Gen TV network
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The new public benefit corporation, an affiliate of the Public Media Ventures Group, promises to operate as a neutral partner in developing local single-frequency network systems with public and commercial broadcasters.
Tech
PRSS rolls out training program that aims to cultivate new generation of public radio engineers
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Station leaders are increasingly saying that the lack of qualified engineers in the system is “keeping them up at night.”
Tech
TechCon features pubcasters sharing opportunities, challenges of ATSC 3.0 rollout
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This year’s TechCon presented the first real-world ATSC 3.0 experiences from several early adopters.