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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 ...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 ...
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