System/Policy
Extra debt saps Colorado net’s bond rating
All three major bond-rating firms have now downgraded the Colorado Public Radio bonds that provided $4.7 million for the network’s 2001 expansion. ...CPB inquiry, deficits: more tribulations for KMBH
A public broadcaster removed unexpectedly from the board of Catholic Church–controlled KMBH public radio and TV in Harlingen, Texas, is heading an ...Emergency infusion: Rx for fiscal hemorrhage
Public television is asking Congress for a $211 million supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2010 on top of the usual ...Northern Calif. combo lays off 30, including much of San Jose staff
Northern California Public Broadcasting, licensee of KQED-TV/FM and KTEH-TV in San Jose, laid off 30 employees and cut its budget 13 percent ...CPB: System revenue may drop $418 million in fiscal 2009
Public radio and TV station revenues may decline $418 million or 14.6 percent this fiscal year, CPB executives estimated in ...Schiller: ‘No reason for NPR to go it alone’ on the Web
An often touted and tabled proposal to recast public radio’s web presence as a combination of content from NPR and its member ...Options run out in Ohio college town as licensee guts its pubradio budget
In a southwestern Ohio college town, the public radio news station with seven full-time employees will become an unstaffed repeater for Cincinnati ...Rights laws dysfunctional in media Wild West
What happens when the copyright culture, based on restriction upon restriction, meets the Wild West of today’s media market and an oncoming ...Where is fundraising in your CEO’s to-do list?
The kind of leaders needed to drive this transformation are not just media organization managers but also community leaders.NPR postpones test of station-network online fundraising
To make time for talks with concerned stations, NPR has put on hold a proposed trial of online giving on NPR.org.Rhode Island declares independence (again)
The four-year struggle to establish WRNI in Providence, R.I., as an independent public radio service for the state crossed a long-awaited threshold ...Uncomfortable, as promised
Cindy Browne never promised them a rose garden. In fact, the founding executive director of Iowa Public Radio repeatedly promised the network’s ...Satradio merger okayed without pubradio provisions
The compromise package of fines and consumer protections imposed by the FCC in exchange for approving the merger of the Sirius and ...Contract signed to preserve Salt Lake public radio news station
Wasatch Public Media, a new nonprofit established just 10 weeks ago to buy KCPW-FM in Salt Lake City and keep it a ...Where church rules pubcasting, pledge drive comes up empty
The nightmare scenario is probably familiar to anyone who ever worked an on-air fund drive: What if nobody pledges?
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