System/Policy
Private equity gobbling up public TV stations: what does the public get?
Public stations in Connecticut and San Mateo may be at the leading edge of a mass sell-off of public media assets in next year’s ...Gates funding spurs doubts over pubmedia’s impartiality in education reporting
Public radio journalists find themselves navigating an ethical gray area as they receive funds for reporting on education from the Bill and ...With Localore expansion, AIR’s Schardt looks to spread culture of R&D, mission of inclusion
The Association of Independents in Radio is preparing to roll out its next iterations of Localore, the innovation initiative that paired indie ...NPR’s Ellen McDonnell, executive editor for news programming, will retire after almost 35 years
NPR’s news division is seeing the exit of another longtime executive with today’s announcement that Executive Editor for News Programming Ellen McDonnell ...CPB eyes TV CSG rules in anticipation of spectrum auctions
CPB will review its television Community Service Grant policies to clarify how to handle station revenues from the upcoming spectrum auction. The auctions, ...Merged newsroom boosts St. Louis Public Radio’s response to tumult in Ferguson
The aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., proved to be a critical test for the public media newsroom.Alaska station cuts PD to offset university budget reduction
KUAC-FM in Fairbanks, Alaska, laid off programming director Jerry Evans Friday as part of ongoing measures to cut spending. According to the Fairbanks ...CPB gives $2.5 million to Firelight Media diversity initiative
Firelight Media, the documentary filmmaking nonprofit founded by Stanley Nelson, received a $2.55 million grant from CPB Aug. 20 to expand Producers’ ...NLRB to resolve contested union election at Baltimore’s WYPR-FM
A dispute over unionization at Baltimore’s WYPR will be resolved by the National Labor Relations Board. WYPR staff voted July 30 on whether ...WFYI expands to Terre Haute with rebroadcast deal
Indianapolis-based WFYI Public Media will expand to the Terre Haute, Ind., market next month through a rebroadcast deal with Indiana State University. Terre ...Conn. network strikes deal with LocusPoint on proceeds from spectrum auction
The Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network plans to relinquish the spectrum assigned to WEDW-TV in Bridgeport, one of four stations in its statewide ...Alaska’s KUAC, APRN reach agreement to help station with budget shortfall
Joint licensee KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Alaska Public Radio Network have agreed on a three-month extension that will allow the station ...KEET steps up membership efforts to hold on to federal funding
KEET-TV, one of the smallest PBS member stations, has grown its membership by 40 percent and raised more than $600,000 over the past ...Crane, Savage elected as new NPR board members
The month-long election for NPR’s Board of Directors closed Monday, with two incumbents and two new faces joining the board. NPR announced Tuesday ...How stations can stay relevant as listeners go elsewhere for NPR content
The public radio economy is built on $432 million in annual listener contributions to local public radio stations. Each year nearly 3 ...
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