System/Policy
Capacity: Radio’s local newsrooms weigh in
As the chorus calling on public media to add more local journalists grows, let’s be mindful of the specific ways adding ...CPB will seek operator to develop American Archive; director leaves project
Having lost its digital projects fund last year, CPB lacks the money to develop the American Archive much further, according to Mark ...Unusual rights delay: hint of budget strife?
PBS’s ongoing negotiations to curb per-hour costs of producing programs and to assert more control over content are increasing friction with its ...NPR increases pay rates for outside producers
NPR and the Association of Independents in Radio unveiled a new payment structure for news reports Jan. 1, raising rates 7.5 percent ...Pubcasters, Daystar and others are eyeing KCSM bids
Potential bidders for pubcaster KCSM-TV in San Mateo, Calif., put up for auction by its college licensee, include both religious broadcasters and ...Rochester indie-movie venue now operated by WXXI
WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., has acquired a downtown movie house, The Little Theatre, it announced Dec. 19. The art-deco theater, founded in ...State aid to Virginia stations again in jeopardy
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has proposed zeroing out the state’s $7.2 million in state funding for Virginia’s public television and radio ...As NBC partners, pubmedia may expand reporting, visibility
NBC will share stories, resources and content distribution with two public broadcasters, ProPublica and two local nonprofit newsrooms under the FCC agreement ...PubTV in L.A. not yet a case of win-win-win-win
When KCET announced in October 2010 that it would quit PBS after four decades as its primary Los Angeles affiliate, the task ...Albany gets a lot of Chartock, but how much is too much?
When Alan Chartock, president of Northeast Public Radio in Albany, N.Y., was on a wife-imposed Mexican vacation, despite her objections he still ...Ancient human remains found under Alaska station
KCAW/Raven Radio in Sitka, Alaska, may not have a skeleton in its closet, but it has one in its basement. Contractors working ...Fairbanks station quits shared feed as Anchorage arrives
Cooperation among Alaska’s public TV stations took a backwards step last week after a modest gain in September. A major result of three ...NPR rooted in stations that still require federal dollars
When Gary Knell officially started work this month as NPR’s president, he probably found no shortage of ideas about what he should ...Colorado net assigns idle AM to Triple A duty in Denver
Colorado Public Radio has found a new use for the spare AM frequency that it couldn’t sell. OpenAir 1340 took to the ...State aid down $85 million in four years
In four years that include the deepening recession, fiscal 2008 through 2012, public broadcasting stations in 24 states have lost a total ...
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