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Hyyppa chairs APTS board, KQSM honors host’s 90th birthday, and other comings and goings in ...
Eric Hyyppa, g.m. of Montana PBS, moves up from professional vice-chair.CPB hands out Thought Leader, American Graduate Champion awards at Public Media Summit
CPB recognized a pair of politicians for their support of public broadcasting during the annual Association of Public Television Stations Public Media ...APTS recognizes politicos, pubcasters with awards at annual Summit
APTS awarded the David J. Brugger Lay Leadership Award to Hilma Prather of Kentucky Feb. 22 at its Public Media Summit in ...Cephas Bowles, former CEO of New Jersey’s WBGO, dies at 62
Bowles was senior executive of WBGO-FM from 1993 to 2014.Center for Media & Social Impact to announce new co-executive directors
“I'm proud of having built the center and led it for the last 15 years, and delighted to promote its continuity into ...Lightning in a bottle: remembering Richard Sher
A public radio general manager recalls a taping of the late host's Says You!.Stephen ‘Tim’ Roll, veteran WHYY development manager, dies at 61
Roll sold radio, television and digital underwriting at WHYY for 23 years.WNYC loses content v.p. Chris Bannon to podcasting company Midroll
The opportunity to grow a podcasting audience for a company that’s producing some of his favorite shows appealed to Bannon.‘I AM LAKSHMI SINGH’: How an NPR newscaster became a hat and meme
A WNYC producer hopes for the union of Lakshmi Singh and the hat she inspired.PBS SoCal’s Rogers sets retirement date, Mundt heads for Seattle, and other comings and goings ...
Rogers is retiring April 30, and COO Andrew Russell will take over the top position.Kent Parsons, TV translator pioneer, dies at 82
“Kent is considered the father of TV translators” for both commercial and noncom stations, said a colleague.Says You! host Richard Sher dies at 66
Sher created Says You! in 1996.Kathy Rogers, Houston Public Media’s ‘Hat Lady,’ dies
“The Hat Lady,” as Rogers was known, began her career in public media in 1998 at KUHF-FM, now part of Houston Public ...Andrew Patner, arts critic for Chicago’s WFMT, dies at 55
Patner was a longtime critic-at-large for WFMT in Chicago and host of the station's show Critical Thinking.Q&A: Mohn leads NPR into ‘golden age of spoken word’
An in-depth talk with NPR's president about program strategy, his Spark initiative, NPR's digital future and more.
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