System/Policy
CPB, RTL award $2.2 million for public TV school-readiness projects
CPB and Ready to Learn, a U.S. Department of Education program supporting preschool learning, will provide $2.2 million in grants to 21 ...GM says recommended funding cuts to Alaska’s KUAC would have disastrous result
Suggested budget cuts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks could jeopardize the survival of KUAC, the university’s public broadcasting outlet, according to ...Judge in Pacifica suit affirms earlier decision against former executive director
An Alameda County, Calif., judge has upheld her previous ruling that the Pacifica Foundation’s board of directors acted within its bounds when ...FCC denies stations’ bid for looser underwriting language
A public radio licensee’s bid to boost underwriting revenue by skirting restrictions on credit language met with a flat rebuttal from the ...Students opposing WRAS deal get new support
College Broadcasters Inc. and the Student Press Law Center are speaking out against a channel-sharing agreement that gave Georgia Public Broadcasting control ...NPR will cancel ‘Tell Me More’, eliminate 28 jobs to balance budget
An updated version of this article was posted May 28. NPR announced today that it will cancel Tell Me More, its weekday midday show ...To follow paths charted by Localore, consider these ‘new realities’
The second of two commentaries adapted from the Association of Independents in Radio’s recent report on Localore.Damaged transmitter delays license renewal for Houston’s KPFT
Houston Pacifica station KPFT-FM is preparing to ask the FCC for a third extension on its license renewal, a delay resulting from ...Survey finds growing group of Triple A stations looking for younger listeners
Program directors from public radio's rock and folk stations are gathered in Philadelphia for shop talk and lots of live music.PBS’s Kerger urges Annual Meeting audience to be bold amid change
The event kicked off Tuesday with its largest crowd in at least a decade.Aviators grounds embedded marketing offer
Until recently, a page on the Aviators website promoting program sponsorships used slick marketing lingo to pitch product placements, also known as embedded ...Calif. judge orders Pacifica’s ousted leader to end occupation of network’s offices
Summer Reese, former executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, was ordered to vacate the network’s headquarters Monday after an Alameda County Superior ...Koch protester takes stage at PBS meeting, gets handcuffed and shown out
PBS staff asked Current to stop photographing as Brant Olson was put against a wall and handcuffed.Subject of ITVS’s Invisible War thanks pubTV programmers
Kori Cioca said the film's distributor gave her emotional support after she was raped while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard.NPR names media exec and venture capitalist Jarl Mohn as new CEO
Philanthropist, investor and former cable TV executive Jarl Mohn will join NPR as its new c.e.o. July 1, the network’s board announced ...
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