System/Policy
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 ...CPB fines WJFF $15,000 for open-meeting violations
The Jeffersonville, N.Y. community radio station came under heavy scrutiny after a former g.m. cancelled programs in closed meetings.Pubmedia symposium examines how to define, quantify impact
“Impact” is a feel-good media buzzword of the moment, increasingly required by the funders of many projects and invoked by some PTV ...Vermont Public Radio urges Montreal listeners to oppose college station’s repeater
A request by a Canadian college radio station to mount a 100-watt repeater in Montreal has triggered stiff opposition from Vermont Public ...Vermont PTV should be sanctioned for closed meetings, CPB IG finds
CPB’s Inspector General has recommended that the corporation sanction Vermont Public Television in response to 22 open-meeting violations by VPT’s board dating ...GPB coming to Atlanta airwaves with WRAS-FM deal
In a channel-sharing agreement announced Tuesday, Georgia Public Broadcasting will expand its public radio service into the Atlanta market starting June 1 ...PBS proposes video-on-demand service in FY15 budget
PBS’s fiscal year 2015 draft budget includes the launch of a Membership Video on Demand service that will generate revenue by drawing ...Public Radio Capital rebrands, launches new projects
Pubmedia consulting company Public Radio Capital has rebranded as Public Media Company and announced a pair of upcoming projects that reflect its ...CPB urges FCC to preserve public TV coverage in spectrum auction
WASHINGTON, D.C. — CPB’s Board of Directors unanimously approved a resolution Thursday urging the FCC to avoid allowing “white areas” that would lack ...
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