Development
Show is kaput, but lessons from host flap resound
Bill Lichtenstein, executive producer of pubradio’s The Infinite Mind, got a phone call Nov. 20 from a New York Times reporter with troubling information: the program’s ...What feels really good: helping others ‘be more’
‘PBS gives everyone the opportunity to explore new worlds” — this is the meaning that station communications to viewers and donors should ...Shadows in the corridors
The scene: a small conference room of the Senate Committee on Commerce, late on a February afternoon. The players: a senior committee staffer ...‘More of the same’: Bush request for $140+ million cutback
As in years past, the administration budget released on Feb. 5 [2007] calls for substantial cuts to CPB funding and other system ...Wilbur Mills to LBJ: ‘We ain’t gonna give money to folks without some strings attached’
Congress doesn’t work that way, said Wilbur Mills, the formidable chair of the House Ways and Means Committee in the late 1960s. ...Fundraiser’s past a red flag no one saw
Before Nancy Kruse’s fundraising company closed, leaving more than $400,000 in expected public radio proceeds unaccounted for, Kruse’s company bio described her ...PBS to develop proposal for public affairs channel
Backed by a $200,000 Knight Foundation grant, PBS will develop a proposal for a public affairs channel — working title, Public Square ...Donors demand clearer view of station reality
The bad news: Public radio is a small part of a rapidly expanding nonprofit sector. Competition with other nonprofits for mind-share and ...As local as appropriate
As different as they are, these public radio outposts share a carefully tuned appropriateness of structure. There’s the young two-transmitter operation on ...Markey, Dodd will back trust fund for digital content
A bill introduced in the House May 2 brings the DOIT proposal for a trust fund supporting digital educational content one step ...Bond market expected to help with pubcasting expansion
The bond market is offering new capital financing options for public broadcasting this week with the expected sale of $6.5 million in ...Public TV privatization drive falters in Idaho
The campaign to throw Idaho Public Television out of the state budget seems to have run out of oomph. On Feb. 20 ...New capital fund helps Colorado network
Thanks to financing from the new Public Radio Capital (PRC) fund, Colorado Public Radio just realized a long-standing goal—buying Denver AM station ...Idaho bans public TV programs that ‘support’ law-breaking
Idaho’s state legislature has imposed extraordinary restrictions on the state public TV network, in delayed reaction to its broadcast last September of ...Reduction of fine to WTTW for underwriting violations, 2000
In March 2000, the FCC reduced its 1997 fine of public TV station WTTW, finding that three of the four underwriting credits ...
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