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Plant interferes with program funding, though just for 8 years
A haze of assumptions hung over the film. “Nobody would go near the show,” Schwarz says. “This was the height of the ...‘Sloppiness,’ not wrongdoing, led to probe, says WNET chair
The leadership of WNET said a federal investigation into the station’s use of federal grants totaling almost $13 million is wrapping up, ...Why fund a whole doc?
Few docs as substantial as The Principal Story, which airs on P.O.V. Sept. 15, are funded in full by a single angel, but this one ...In Pittsburgh, members come first in credits
Viewers like you — by name — have literally moved to the front of the line in underwriting credits at WQED in ...Prenups: precautions for prudent producers
Too many couples were splitting up before the offspring came along. Or they lived together grumpily, keenly aware they shouldn’t have had ...Austin City Limits rides its brand downtown
Austin City Limits is a hot commodity based on a cool brand built over 33 years on PBS. In two years it moves its ...Funding you can nurture, from your community
If all of the stations in the Benchmarks survey matched the performance of the top stations, public radio would gain $47.4 million ...Finding Explorer
The kinds of people who like new experiences, enjoy scanning expanded horizons, want to see things from varied perspectives are the people ...Fiscal year-end layoffs include 10% of PBS staff
Swamped by the recession tsunami as they prepared for the new fiscal year, public broadcasters at PBS headquarters; WQLN in Erie, Pa.; ...Fred Friendly’s solar-powered plan to give public TV independence
... Friendly began toying with an idea for a permanent source of funding for noncommercial television. In the spring of 1966 ...With renewal aid, HQ cost is practically a steel
Thanks to the June arrival of the Sands Casino Resort in the industrial Lehigh Valley in east central Pennsylvania, the region can ...On the Media apologizes for Infinite Mind lapse
On the Media, the NPR-distributed weekly press review, released a correction last week apologizing for what it called a “lapse in journalistic judgment” in ...Emergency infusion: Rx for fiscal hemorrhage
Public television is asking Congress for a $211 million supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2010 on top of the usual ...CPB: System revenue may drop $418 million in fiscal 2009
Public radio and TV station revenues may decline $418 million or 14.6 percent this fiscal year, CPB executives estimated in ...Where is fundraising in your CEO’s to-do list?
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