Development
Obama would keep CPB at $445 mil, end aid to rural pubTV
President Barack Obama released his fiscal 2013 budget Feb. 13, which, as expected, contains $445 million in advance funding for CPB in ...Policy delay of nonprofit status spikes Chicago News Cooperative
Rumors started quickly, trying to explain why the Chicago News Cooperative was closing. The Internal Revenue Service had rejected the co-op’s application ...No-chat zone ’twixt funders and reporters?
Radio news veteran Jim Asendio resigned as news director of Washington’s WAMU-FM last week after an internal dispute over a private fundraising ...Local/national fundraising ‘rules of the road’ needed
While a local public broadcasting station traditionally romances big-donor prospects in its locality, it can occasionally find itself in a jealous spat ...Scale: Wisconsin net has economies of size and local bureaus, too
Nothing comes easily to public radio, not even a good idea. About 30 years ago, Wisconsin Public Radio veteran Jack Mitchell came ...Capital: With federal aid gone, tech fundraising starts from scratch
The evaporation of the Commerce Department’s Public Telecommunications Facilities Program and the dwindling of other funding sources have created a critical situation ...Current participates as information provider in a series of forums
With this package of articles, Current begins publishing a series of articles on Public Media Futures, appearing in conjunction with a two-year series of quarterly ...Capacity: Radio’s local newsrooms weigh in
As the chorus calling on public media to add more local journalists grows, let’s be mindful of the specific ways adding ...Urgency: Recession is just the latest thing to go worse for public television
Between the years 1995 and 2010, public television stations’ cash revenues rose, plateaued and then crashed with the 2008 recession, falling altogether ...PBS to produce sessions on TV fundraising at PMDMC
Next year’s Public Media Development and Marketing Conference, the annual event organized by pubradio’s Development Exchange Inc., will include a new track ...Saying ‘thank you’ isn’t just polite — it could raise millions more
How much are simple thank-you calls to donors worth to public television stations nationwide over the course of a year? Potentially, about ...Localore: matchmaker for innovation
Two years after its Makers Quest 2.0 project tapped independent producers to stretch the creative boundaries of public radio, the Association of ...If you pay commissions on underwriting sales, make them incentives for team behavior
... Management can support responsible behavior, however, by designing compensation systems that reward it. These techniques include offering a livable base salary ...WBUR finds ROI for stores in underwriting
Looking to expand the pool of companies that place underwriting spots on public radio stations, Boston’s WBUR unveiled results from its first-ever ...Pledge Pipeline, 2011-12
Current‘s first Pledge Pipeline previews 36 shows heading to public TV on-air membership drives in December 2011, March 2012 and beyond. Producers and ...
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