System/Policy
Organizers prep for next wave of LPFM
The new noncommercial stations, which broadcast at 100 watts or less, will join the ranks of about 800 LPFMs already on the ...Multicasts tailored to local priorities
Bolstered by ratings data on their digital multicast channels and years of experience in managing them, public TV station programmers in many ...Needed: courage to shape digital video future
"Today I want to lay out a vision for how we can invent our future, a future where public television is serving ...Tiny audience, debt service put Tacoma signal in jeopardy
Public Radio Capital is working to keep an FM station it owns in Tacoma, Wash., on the air after June 30, when ...St. Louis Public Radio to acquire Illinois station
The University of Missouri-St. Louis will acquire WQUB-FM in Quincy, Ill., expanding the coverage of its St. Louis Public Radio north along ...GMs take up PBS plan to expand web video output
Three dozen general managers have coalesced around a proposal by PBS Interactive chief Jason Seiken to jump-start low-cost local video production at ...Questions to ask before you collaborate
For two decades, Dick McPherson has managed the McPherson Associates’ Public Media Co-op, through which 30-plus stations with more than 25 percent ...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 ...
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