Author: Steve Behrens
If CPB is defunded, 130 stations are ‘at high risk,’ Booz report finds
What if Congress stopped allocating federal aid to pubcasting? The latest bleak financial analysis from CPB, released last week, adds some specifics ...Jim Fellows: diplomat at center of pubTV
James A. Fellows, 77, an advocate of high ideals, strategic planning and executive training for public television, died in his sleep Friday, ...CPB to equip 2 pubTV facilities as multistation master controls
By having two or three big master-control facilities oversee the digital assembly and transmission of broadcast schedules for all of the nation’s ...A comic book to explain media? — a scene so sad that it’s funny
Long after giving a title to her new serious comic book, On the Media co-host Brooke Gladstone is having to explain it away. When ...George Hall, advocate for educational TV institutions, 82
George Leigh Hall, 82, a public television leader in North Carolina, Illinois and Virginia, died June 5 at a retirement home in ...N.Y., Philly stations to pick up NJN’s pieces
For 40 years New Jersey has justified having its own public broadcasting network by pointing to the limited reporting on its area ...CPB survives, but not the facilities program
This year, St. Patrick’s Day was the deadline for pubcasters to ask Uncle Sam for help replacing their ancient, failing transmitters, or ...Next Avenue will use Web to super-serve a (slightly) younger PBS audience
When Jim Pagliarini and Judy Diaz say public TV should pay more attention to a younger audience, they’re not thinking of viewers ...Panel to weigh state spinoff of NJN
The governor says the state can’t afford New Jersey Network anymore. NJN’s leaders say it would do better as a nonprofit anyway. ...For PBS pledge shows, overlap stations must pay extra or play later
The PBS Board tweaked its rules governing one of public TV’s touchiest ongoing internal disputes.‘More local, more inclusive, more interactive’
Citing public broadcasting’s “mixed history” in providing local news and information, a blue-ribbon panel has called on the field to “move quickly ...‘Reading Rainbow’ fades this month
PBS comes to the end of the Rainbow Aug. 28 when broadcast rights for one of the system’s longest-running kids’ programs expire and Reading Rainbow ...Flint, Mich., to lose WFUM as locally run public TV station
Last fiscal year, station operations cost $4.2 million, but revenues covered just two-thirds of that, falling short by $1.48 million.Diversity: More than good intentions?
Several minority advocates who received the report said they appreciated PBS’s effort, but they found it wanting.Contract signed to preserve Salt Lake public radio news station
Wasatch Public Media, a new nonprofit established just 10 weeks ago to buy KCPW-FM in Salt Lake City and keep it a ...
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