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Buyer will take Nightly Business Report to ‘a new level’
WPBT sells to entrepreneur with history of legal disputes: Mykalai Kontilai, whose NBR Worldwide this month purchased Nightly Business Report, a staple ...Sustainers: more efficiency and stability, shorter pledge drives
After a decade, sustaining members have given four times as much, net Everywhere you look these days, there’s a different message on the ...Accounting problems cost WNET $1 for every $7 in federal grants
WNET’s accounting problems have cost it $1.96 million out of a series of production grants totaling $13 million, following a two-year federal ...Gov’t officials critical of nonprofit Friends units
Nonprofit fundraising arms of the state-owned network in West Virginia and the school-board-operated stations in Miami are under fire as public officials ...PBS entrusts key funding job to good friend of its president
Such hires push a hot-button issue: Public broadcasting’s commitment to diversify its largely white male corps of decision-makers.Mobile giving a ‘no-brainer’ for TAL postcast audience
It’s not the best way to collect big annual gifts from station members, pubcasting fundraisers agree. But This American Life’s producers confirmed that giving-by-texting ...Giving by texting: So far, you’d LOL at net proceeds
Americans’ response to the post-earthquake crisis in Haiti demonstrated the power of technology-enabled charity, but public broadcasters who ...Congress allots $25 million ‘stabilization’ aid to stations
The number was a compromise between the House’s $40 million figure and the Senate’s $10 million.To save journalism, click ’n’ donate?
Now a dot-com called Kachingle is starting to roll out an online service designed to make voluntary support easy for even the ...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 ...
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