System/Policy
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 ...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 ...
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