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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 ...CPB bans list dealings with politicos
To continue receiving CPB aid, public stations must now certify that they don’t exchange member or donor names with political groups, or ...DEI recommendations for mailing list guidelines
After stations’ list practices exploded as a political issue, an organization of public radio fundraisers, the Development Exchange, issued this advice written ...We’re sending the wrong message with premiums
No, I’m not going to preach that public TV should stop using premiums to attract and upgrade members. Premiums are too effective ...How many listeners donate? One in 12 or one in three?
Which is it? Is the conventional wisdom correct — that one out of every 10 or 12 public radio listeners is a ...Seven years in a ‘dynamic environment’
Cecily Truett and Larry Lancit rolled the dice. In the spring of 1991, they took their production company and its best known ...FCC to WTTW: too much of that funky stuff
WTTW and PBS say they’re baffled by the FCC’s proposal to fine the Chicago station $5,000 for airing four underwriting spots, including ...
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