System/Policy
Q&A: ‘Building on strengths’ key to PBS strategy
After stints in the cable world as producers and programmers, PBS execs Beth Hoppe and Donald Thoms returned to PBS last August ...Advocates press FCC to open more channels for LPFMs
NPR, the National Association of Broadcasters and advocates for low-power radio expressed opposing views to the FCC in a proceeding that will ...WMFE rebuffs Independent Public Media bid for Orlando channel
Leaders of Orlando’s WMFE rebuffed a bid from Independent Public Media to purchase its TV station, which had been slated for sale ...NEA allotted this year’s media aid ‘to present art in new and . . . ...
Soon, listeners will hear celebrities read James Joyce’s entire masterpiece Ulysses via satellite and Internet radio; a New York City theater will use ...San Mateo’s KCSM-TV nears sale with two bid finalists
The two remaining finalists bidding for KCSM-TV in San Mateo, Calif., are local groups aligned with Independent Public Media and Public Media ...Court would let public stations sell candidate and issues ads
No, there won’t be any windfall of Obama and Romney Super PAC gazillions for public stations this year. By a 2–1 vote, ...PubTV multicaster V-me faulted for airing ‘ordinary commercials’
V-me, the Spanish-language multicast channel carried by 42 public TV stations, pulled underwriting spots from its schedule last month amid complaints about ...Feds arrest Arizona man for stealing Native group’s PTFP money
An Arizona man with a background in Native radio faces federal civil and criminal charges for using a federal grant for personal ...Delaware news startup adds public radio service
A nonprofit that operates a news site for the state of Delaware has acquired an FM broadcast license and plans to launch ...Media Access Project runs out of funds, will shut down
The Media Access Project, a public-interest law firm focused on media issues, announced last week that it will close its doors May ...PBS proposes 2% dues increase, okays common-carriage extension
PBS is seeking a 2 percent increase in membership fees in its draft budget for fiscal 2013. Although still subject to review ...With FCC’s eye on Daystar, WMFE-TV sale nixed
The FCC has delayed decisions on two transactions involving sales of public TV stations to Daystar Television Network to examine whether the ...County okays merger of Charlotte’s WTVI, college
The merger of PBS member station WTVI in Charlotte, N.C., with Central Piedmont Community College was approved March 20 by Mecklenburg County ...Pubmedia partners give reporters a map to states that are hard, and soft, on corruption
The results of an accountability journalism project, released this morning by Public Radio International and two nonprofit news partners, pairs a data-rich ...Media council will assess KUOW/antiabortion dispute
A media-ethics forum in Seattle will hold a hearing later this month to consider an antiabortion group’s charge that all-news KUOW-FM aired ...
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