Development
With renewal aid, HQ cost is practically a steel
Thanks to the June arrival of the Sands Casino Resort in the industrial Lehigh Valley in east central Pennsylvania, the region can ...On the Media apologizes for Infinite Mind lapse
On the Media, the NPR-distributed weekly press review, released a correction last week apologizing for what it called a “lapse in journalistic judgment” in ...Emergency infusion: Rx for fiscal hemorrhage
Public television is asking Congress for a $211 million supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2010 on top of the usual ...CPB: System revenue may drop $418 million in fiscal 2009
Public radio and TV station revenues may decline $418 million or 14.6 percent this fiscal year, CPB executives estimated in ...Where is fundraising in your CEO’s to-do list?
The kind of leaders needed to drive this transformation are not just media organization managers but also community leaders.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 ...
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