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Alaska fundraiser wins national honor
The Association of Fundraising Professionals named Gretchen Gordon, director of development and outreach at KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska, its Outstanding Professional in ...KWMU will move to midtown, next to KETC
Pubradio station KWMU will move to midtown St. Louis, next door to pubTV station KETC, the radio licensee announced Wednesday, the Post-Dispatch ...Listenership is up for revamped KRCL, but pledge response lags
More listeners are tuning into KRCL, the Utah community radio station that overhauled its contemporary music format in March and replaced volunteers ...Promotions for KCET’s program team
Raising the profile of its production side, KCET chief Al Jerome upped Mary Mazur to e.v.p. and chief content officer, overseeing content ...Cindy Browne comes to the end of her fight
Cindy Browne, founding head of Iowa Public Radio and longtime exec at Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), died Sunday night, Nov. 9, ...NPR appoints Vivian Schiller as next chief exec
Vivian Schiller, senior v.p. of NYTimes.com, has been appointed as NPR’s next president and c.e.o. Schiller, who will be the first woman ...Burbank’s tips for engaging Gen X listeners
To attract younger listeners, public radio needs to “get off the news mountaintop,” former NPR host and correspondent Luke Burbank told station ...Harcourt exits to “build some equity for myself”
Nic Harcourt, KCRW’s eclectic music tastemaker for 10 years, will leave the Santa Monica, Calif., station later this month. “It’s not the ...Inquirer questions compensation for WHYY chief
WHYY in Philadelphia distinguishes itself among public broadcasting outlets for excessive compensation of its chief executive, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported yesterday. Citing ...Christopherson resigns as NJN director
New Jersey’s state-owned NJN network confirmed yesterday that Elizabeth Christopherson, executive director for 14 years, will leave the job Dec. 1. She ...Analog signals: Another one bites the dust
The University of Michigan’s WFUM-TV in Flint, Mich., is the latest of a growing number of pubTV stations to plan an early ...Cincinnati and Dayton pubTV stations to merge
Cincinnati’s and Dayton’s public TV stations announced today that they will merge but keep their local identities and facilities. David Fogarty, head ...CPB moves to begin planning American Archive
CPB advertised Monday to hire a person or organization to scope out the proposed American Archive of pubcasting content. Proposals for management ...Frontline’s latest: “nothing but bad news”
“For abject gloominess, it would be hard to top “The War Briefing,” Frontline‘s deeply reported look at the war in Afghanistan and ...Religion & Ethics survey: U.S. has moral obligation abroad
A survey of 1,400 adults by the PBS program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and the United Nations Foundation about religion and America’s ...
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