System/Policy
A slideshow of pictures from the first broadcast at NPR’s new headquarters
WESAT from the new NPR headquarters, a set on Flickr. Current was on hand April 13 when Weekend Edition Saturday launched the first broadcast from ...Arizona radio stations ask FCC for looser underwriting rules
The licensee of KJZZ and KBAQ in Phoenix has asked the FCC for temporary permission to sidestep the agency’s rules governing language ...PBS FY14 draft budget has $11M content hike, no dues increase, thanks to income influx
PBS’s year-to-date financial results show a net income of $22 million instead of the estimated $100,000 net loss anticipated in its fiscal ...Obama would maintain CPB funding, eliminate rural digital grants in 2014 budget proposal
President Obama released his fiscal 2014 federal budget proposal April 10, and recommended $445 million in two-year advance funding for CPB. This ...Maine Public Broadcasting cuts staff, puts show on hiatus after further loss in funds
Facing a $400,000 funding shortfall, Maine Public Broadcasting Network said Friday it will lay off up to 12 percent of its workforce ...FCC Chair Genachowski announces resignation
Julius Genachowski, FCC chairman since 2009, told commission employees this morning that he’ll be departing “in the coming weeks.”New talking point on Capitol Hill: PubTV’s role in education
Public television’s strongest case for preserving tax-based support for stations and CPB centers on informing political leaders about the full range of ...CPB details how budget cuts will work, corporation-wide
After automatic spending cuts required under the Budget Control Act of 2011 took effect March 1, CPB received confirmation that its 2013 ...Drop the stuffy presentation style for classical radio and the format will thrive
To the Editors, I read Ben Mook’s Feb. 11 piece about the de-commercialization of classical radio with a mixture of sadness and muted ...NFCB board dismisses president; v.p. calls decision “a huge mistake”
The board of directors of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters has dismissed NFCB President Maxie Jackson as of March 4. He ...Panel urges IRS to revisit its ‘antiquated’ nonprofit rules
Delays in conferring 501(c)3 status to startup nonprofit news organizations have stymied development of new models for producing community-based journalism, exacerbating the ...Pittsburgh Public Media acquires W.Va. FM station for jazz programming
The FCC has approved the sale of a West Virginia college station to Pittsburgh Public Media, a jazz webcaster run by former ...Two Native tribes are first to benefit from FCC rules favoring tribal applicants
Native tribes in New Mexico and Arizona are the first to benefit from the FCC’s Tribal Radio Priority, a provision created by ...One ouster leads to another at Iowa Public Radio
When the board of Iowa Public Radio voted to remove Mary Grace Herrington as c.e.o. Feb. 25, the directors were responding to ...CPB details how automatic budget cuts will work, corporation-wide
This item has been updated and reposted. CPB on Monday sent a memo to public broadcasting stations detailing the 5 percent sequester of ...
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