Development
Subsidies lost, urgency gained
As public broadcasting braces for expected cuts from its most predictable revenue source — the annual CPB appropriation — system leaders are ...After scandal, fundraisers debate ethics
Having witnessed the damaging one-round knockout of NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller in March, public radio’s development pros are working to adapt the ...‘Restricted unrestricted’: a productive new flavor of grants at KPBS
“Blessed Be the Ties that Bind” may be music to churchgoers, but many station leaders find it discordant. No matter how much ...Flow plan would push spots deeper into PBS hours
The traditional pledge-drive mantra brags about a piece of public television’s ancestral DNA: “PBS — your home for quality, uninterrupted programming.” So the ...With projects on hold, PBS hunts spendable cash, tweaks primetime schedule
Don’t tell the county fire marshal, but the president of PBS keeps working while her staff evacuates the building in deference to ...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 ...The right jabs public radio with video sting using NPR fundraiser’s words
Neither Ron Schiller nor Betsy Liley had eaten before at Café Milano, the upscale see-and-be-seen restaurant in Georgetown, before Feb. 22, when ...STING: The Right jabs pubradio with NPR fundraiser’s words
Neither Ron Schiller nor Betsy Liley had eaten before at Café Milano, the upscale see-and-be-seen restaurant in Georgetown, before Feb. 22, when ...House vote would axe CPB in 2013
Last time, in 2005, the emissary to Congress was Clifford the Big Red Dog. This time, it’s an aardvark named Arthur. Last ...Donation analysis project aims to fill public TV’s development void
Contributor Development Partnership launches as a data-driven effort to identify and share best practices in public media fundraising.Into the gig economy
The author is president of Western Reserve Public Media (WNEO/ WEAO), which serves Akron, Youngstown and Kent in northeast Ohio. Right after ...Newman’s own way: ‘speak up and do things’
In June 2007, when conservative publisher Rupert Murdoch purchased the venerable Wall Street Journal, actor and philanthropist Paul Newman was upset. Wary of Murdoch’s ...Consultants, groups aim to fill voids as PBS Development shifts focus
“We must work differently” in an era of flat membership dues and other funding constraints, said Joyce Herring, PBS’s senior v.p. of ...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 ...
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