System/Policy
Pubradio report prompts mine-safety measures
An investigation of a mine accident in Idaho by the Northwest News Network, a collaboration of public radio stations in Idaho, Oregon ...Licensee sells Palm Beach’s WXEL-TV to nonprofit set up by its managers
Two years after selling WXEL-FM in Palm Beach, Fla., for $3.85 million, Barry University has agreed to sell its public-TV sister station ...Alvarado as he exits: ‘Change cannot be a complaint’
"... The architecture of public media has to be reimagined immediately or the millennials will build their own parallel universe separate from ...At APTS summit, public TV remembers which way ‘up’ is
“What a difference a year makes,” Patrick Butler, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, told the crowd at the group’s ...FCC authorized to auction off TV spectrum
Legislation enacted last week to authorize FCC auctions of TV spectrum contains some protections for pubcasters, but broadcasters will face technical challenges ...Cohesion: It helps when collaborators want the same things
There’s a growing disparity between the haves and have-nots among public stations. Their abilities to expand services and revenues are diverging. And ...APMG’s Florida classical station grows west with new FM
Miami-based Classical South Florida, an affiliate of American Public Media Group, is expanding its service to the state’s western coast with the ...NETA partners with Coke bottler for station health insurance
After several years of work, the National Educational Telecommunications Association announced Feb. 23 that it is offering group health-insurance coverage plans to ...Obama would keep CPB at $445 mil, end aid to rural pubTV
President Barack Obama released his fiscal 2013 budget Feb. 13, which, as expected, contains $445 million in advance funding for CPB in ...Phase-out of state aid proposed in R.I., Oklahoma
Pubcasting networks continue to deal with the uncertainties of state funding in economically and politically precarious times, closing offices, facing possible cuts ...Local/national fundraising ‘rules of the road’ needed
While a local public broadcasting station traditionally romances big-donor prospects in its locality, it can occasionally find itself in a jealous spat ...Identity: How Dayton-Cincinnati made their merger work
Matchmaking requires openness, compatibility, shared goals and maintaining a strong sense of identity. That’s the advice for public broadcasters looking to ...Upsides: Reconceived public stations can ‘be more PBS’ and be more local
The stations are here so they can understand and illuminate a community’s aspirations and concerns, engage people in the life of their ...Scale: Wisconsin net has economies of size and local bureaus, too
Nothing comes easily to public radio, not even a good idea. About 30 years ago, Wisconsin Public Radio veteran Jack Mitchell came ...Current participates as information provider in a series of forums
With this package of articles, Current begins publishing a series of articles on Public Media Futures, appearing in conjunction with a two-year series of quarterly ...
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