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Center details future foundation giving
The Foundation Center has compiled information detailing how the economic climate may be affecting foundation giving. The list includes several longtime pubcasting ...NTIA gets additional DTV coupon funding
Some four million viewers on the waiting list to receive DTV converter coupons should start getting those soon. The National Telecommunications and ...Obama formally announces FCC nomination
As was expected, President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate Julius Genachowski to head the FCC. The president cited Genachowski’s ...WEAO makes cuts, adds pledge drives
WEAO in Northeast Ohio has made salary and publication cutbacks and added three pledge drives in an attempt to get back into ...Waco satellite viewers may be without KWBU for two years
DISH Network viewers of KWBU in Waco, Texas, may be without their local pubTV station for up to two years, reports the ...Corporate giving down, Conference Board reports
The Conference Board reports 45 percent of businesses have reduced donations to nonprofits this year, and another 16 percent were considering doing ...Economics seminar for reporters seeks applicants by next week
The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism has extended its application deadline to March 12 for its seminar on economic reporting. The seminar ...NYTimes.com goes “local” with new community blogs
Pubcasting leaders have been talking up the opportunity to fill the void left by ailing newspapers by stepping up online coverage of ...Vermont pubradio reduces salaries
Vermont Public Radio is cutting executive pay 7.5 percent and the other 43 full-time employees’ salaries will be cut 2 percent, ...NPR’s Schiller mulls strengths of public and commercial media
NPR prez Vivian Schiller spoke at the National Press Club in Washington today, focusing on what commercial media can learn from pubcasting–and ...Obama deduction proposal debate continues
There’s disagreement in the nonprofit world over the potential effects of President Barack Obama’s proposal to reduce charitable deductions for wealthy donors, ...Tucson pubstation considering sharing facilities with cable-access channels
Tucson’s PBS station, KUAT, is considering sharing facilities with two cable-access media centers for budgetary and space reasons, according to a report ...Viewers speak out on MPT programming decision
David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun comments on a monthslong controversy he sparked with a column on Maryland Public Television’s decision not ...Could Obama budget affect donation deductions?
Nonprofits are worried over one aspect of President Barack Obama’s preliminary budget released last week, The New York Times reports. An analysis ...Kuehl picked to head Kansas City’s KCPT
Kansas City’s KCPT has hired Nevada pubcaster Kliff Kuehl as its president, the Kansas City Star reported. The station has been headhunting ...
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