System/Policy
NPR, other noncoms push for laxer FCC indecency rules
NPR is advocating for the Federal Communications Commission to loosen its policies surrounding broadcast decency standards, and retreat from a “zero tolerances” ...Pacifica misses CPB deadlines, holding up funding for stations
CPB has withheld financial support for the Pacifica Foundation’s five radio stations after the organization missed deadlines for fixing errors and shortcomings ...Nominee for FCC chair pledges to stick to spectrum auction schedule
During his June 18 Senate confirmation hearing for the position of Federal Communications Commission chairman, presidential nominee Tom Wheeler said it is ...Butler cautiously optimistic about spectrum auctions’ effects on public broadcasting
As broadcasters and their representatives prepare for the FCC’s upcoming auction of television broadcast spectrum, public TV’s top lobbyist is proceeding with ...Salt Lake City’s KCPW cites program costs, duplication in canceling NPR programs
Salt Lake City pubcaster Wasatch Public Media, licensee of KCPW-FM, will drop all NPR programs June 24, a schedule change intended to ...Public media leaders debate value of internships, paid and unpaid
As public and for-profit media companies come under new scrutiny for compensation of interns, public media executives debated how decisions to pay ...The Future of Media Leadership: A Storify
Follow the conversation around the next generation of public media leaders with Current's Storify of the June 14 forum.DEI group unites public media’s young professionals
A group of young public media professionals who began meeting informally last year to network and share ideas has moved to step ...Futures Forum explores pubmedia’s leadership transition
Upcoming leadership changes in public media will be the focus of Friday’s Public Media Futures Forum in Washington, D.C., the latest in ...Gains, losses spread unevenly across pubcasting stations
Reductions in tax-based support for pubcasting have shortened the financial gap between public television and radio stations, accelerating public TV’s decade-long financial ...Podcast lawsuits provoke pubmedia attention, presidential action
A brewing legal fight initiated by Personal Audio, a Texas-based company that claims to have invented podcasting technology, has entered a new ...PubTV stations move to pitch sustainer gifts during pledge
“Sustainers,” as this increasingly commonplace breed of member is called, renew at higher rates than those responding to traditional pledge pitches.APTS chief sees renewed battle over CPB aid
APTS President Patrick Butler is warning public broadcasters of continued threats to their federal funding this summer as Congress takes up work ...Spectrum speculator LocusPoint and KCSM licensee reach FCC auction deal
The contract paves the way for public TV station KCSM to go dark if a wireless company buys its broadcast spectrum.WBAI fails to meet payroll, pay rent
Money shortfalls at New York’s WBAI, one of two Pacifica Foundation stations that must relocate their studios later this month, continue to ...
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