System/Policy
KCET’s split from PBS leaves uncertainty for both
It’s official: KCET, one of the biggest siblings in the PBS family, is leaving home for good. Although station President Al Jerome ...Three years of talks fail to end dispute over KCET’s dues
June 2007: In a presentation to the PBS Board’s Station Services Committee, KCET protests that its dues assessments are disproportionately high and ...Adrift, mute and helpless
Why everyone but public broadcasters is making federal policy for public media The FCC’s recent National Broadband Plan and its Future of the ...Other stations like the plan so much, they say it’s theirs
A consultant’s study of public TV’s crowded Los Angeles market, commissioned by CPB, predicts a highly integrated collaboration among the area’s four ...KCET warns it may leave PBS
After negotiating with PBS for eight months over a proposal to reduce its dues and remake public TV in the Los Angeles ...Without PBS dues relief, KCET says it will quit PBS at year’s end
After negotiating with PBS for eight months over a proposal to reduce its dues and reconfigure pubTV in the Los Angeles market, ...Carrots on CSG menu: Rules may favor TV mergers, limits on website ads
The incentives ranging from $500,000 to $1.5 million per station could give an extra push to CPB’s ongoing matchmaking efforts.Panel to weigh state spinoff of NJN
The governor says the state can’t afford New Jersey Network anymore. NJN’s leaders say it would do better as a nonprofit anyway. ...Accounting problems cost WNET $1 for every $7 in federal grants
WNET’s accounting problems have cost it $1.96 million out of a series of production grants totaling $13 million, following a two-year federal ...Funders buy time for rethinking in WDUQ sale talks
When Duquesne University declined to accept bids for WDUQ-FM by its staff and supporters, an alliance of Pittsburgh foundations stepped in to ...Incentives for ‘diversity, innovation’ come with big CPB grant to PBS
CPB and PBS are completing an agreement that may lead to the agency’s first annual grants for the PBS National Program Service ...Next PBS chief content officer rules all content— as long as it’s on-air
After starting the process to hire a new chief content officer, PBS has reduced the purview of the job. The CCO will ...Next PBS chief content officer rules all content — as long as it’s on-air
After starting the process to hire a new chief content officer, PBS has reduced the purview of the job.For PBS pledge shows, overlap stations must pay extra or play later
The PBS Board tweaked its rules governing one of public TV’s touchiest ongoing internal disputes.PBS won’t raise dues income again next year; Kerger warns it may lose capabilities and ...
Paula Kerger wants public TV stations to know that the combination of flat station dues, dwindling resources and balanced budgets may be ...
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