System/Policy
Second pubTV station pays fine for missteps handling federal grants
When the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts announced a settlement with Boston’s WGBH over its handling of $60 million in federal grant ...GPB hires governor’s pick for plum job
When Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal recently approached Georgia Public Broadcasting’s top exec about appointing outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers to lead ...Basic memberships: More trouble than they’re worth?
Basic memberships offered during pledge drives and in direct-mail appeals are a time-tested enticement for converting pubcasting viewers and listeners into contributors, ...WFYI chief honored for leadership in public TV
Lloyd Wright received the 2012 William Kobin Public Television Leadership Award from public TV’s Major Market Group. Wright has served as president ...In reshuffle of PBS executive ranks, Hoppe ascends to chief programmer
PBS has restructured its senior management, effective immediately, elevating programmer/producer Beth Hoppe to chief programming executive and general manager, according to a ...Deal resolves ownership of Ohio’s WYSO-FM as the college that built it revives
Two years after Antioch College reopened its campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, it negotiated an $8 million deal to buy back WYSO, NPR News ...For-profit start-up accelerator aims to make public media ‘Matter’ to Silicon Valley
The start-up accelerator unveiled a year ago as an experiment in bringing Silicon Valley’s culture of innovation to public media has rebranded ...The ‘ongoing process’ of diversity
Public radio stations trying to diversify their audiences, staffs and programming have found an increasingly active ally in NPR, whose leaders have ...Video: Delaware’s first homegrown public radio station celebrates launch
WDDE-FM signed on in August 2012, becoming the first public radio station based in the state of Delaware. Governor Jack Markell cut ...Turning the tide of state funding cuts in Florida
Pubcasters and their advocates in the state capital credit the change of heart to help from sympathetic lawmakers, the governor’s willingness to ...Radio g.m.’s adapt business models for newsgathering
Public radio is adapting too slowly to the competitive challenges it faces from Internet-based media platforms, and the pace of change must ...FCC will allow low-power FMs in urban markets, accept applications in October 2013
The FCC adopted new rules today regarding low-power FM stations, paving the way to accept a wave of applications for new LPFMs ...FCC extends comment and reply deadlines for spectrum auction issues
The FCC announced on Thursday that it has extended its deadline for comments on upcoming broadcast spectrum auctions. The original deadlines, Dec. ...WBUR entering Cape Cod market with purchase of WMVY
Boston NPR news station 90.9 WBUR-FM is wading into the Cape Cod resort market and going toe-to-toe with WGBH’s network of stations ...Northeast gets several new pubradio stations
The number of pubradio stations in the northeastern U.S. has grown in recent weeks with the addition of new stations with signals ...
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