System/Policy
News directors’ conference focuses on diversity in hiring and reporting
The Public Radio News Directors conference featured a pair of sessions on the subject.Florida legislature cuts funding for PBS LearningMedia
The funds would have supported adapting the PBS materials to state standards.Illinois radio station faces uncertain future after college announces shutdown
Kankakee Community College announced last week that WKCC-FM will go dark in December.House and Senate spending bills propose level support for CPB, but no interconnect funds
The bills include level funding of $445 million for CPB.House Appropriations Committee approves $445M for CPB
But PBS’s interconnection project lacks support so far.Stations moving to VHF should receive equal treatment in auction, pubcasters tell FCC officials
Public broadcasters met with FCC Chair Tom Wheeler and other commission officials Monday.FCC declines to protect public TV in 2016 spectrum auction
In a ruling issued Friday, the FCC also denied a petition to protect TV translators, which many rural stations use.U.S. pubcasters visit Kiev to advise on creating public media network
Representatives from CPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Association of Independents in Radio are in Ukraine's capital.WBGU-TV may auction spectrum; could leave part of Ohio without PBS
The board of trustees for Bowling Green State University approved an administration request to explore participation in the FCC’s spectrum auction.FCC to provide spectrum bids to stations by September, CPB Board hears
Stations have 60 days from receiving bids to declare whether they will participate in the auction, set for mid-2016.University mulls public TV partnership to strengthen radio station’s future
As it shifts funding priorities, the university is evaluating its options for Chattanooga's only NPR station.OPB board members get a kick out of custom Nikes
They’re made from the famous blankets produced in Pendleton, Ore.CPB finds majority of audited grantees out of compliance with Communications Act requirements
Two-thirds were noncompliant with at least some provisions of the Act, according to the corporation’s Office of the Inspector General.Vermont to halve operating fund support for state public TV network
Vermont has appropriated almost $660,000 less than expected to Vermont PBS because of a projected $113 million shortfall.Nonprofit news site Oakland Local will suspend production, search for new management
Co-founder Susan Mernit stepped down to pursue another project.
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