System/Policy
FCC staff reports fast clip for processing of LPFM apps
FCC commissioners got an update Friday on the status of low-power FM applications, six months after the closing of the most recent ...This American Life departure highlights competitive challenge for pubradio satellite system
The expanding portfolio of Public Radio Exchange, the Internet-based distribution platform, has prompted some public radio insiders to question whether NPR’s Public ...Mississippi boosts state aid to pubcasting after half-decade of cuts
MPR credits successful legislative outreach and a state revenue increase for its nine-percent aid bump.In radio appearance, ‘Citizen Koch’ filmmakers allege self-censorship in public TV
The filmmakers behind a new documentary briefly discussed their “deeply troubling” experience with public TV in an appearance on public radio’s On Point Wednesday. Tia ...WPBT and WXEL in South Florida reveal merger talks
A proposed merger of two Florida public TV stations would serve a combined market area roughly equivalent to the country’s seventh-largest Nielsen ...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.
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