System/Policy
Stern’s latest credit: completing the search for NPR’s future home
In 2012, when NPR moves to its recently acquired headquarters site seven blocks east of its present home, it will have much ...Stern’s latest credit: completing the search for NPR’s future home
In 2012, when NPR moves to its recently acquired headquarters site seven blocks east of its present home, it will have much ...After a big score, deals sour and Utah station pulls back
A small-town Utah public-radio outfit that expanded into Salt Lake City thanks to its founders’ deal-making acumen — and stirred controversy over ...Stations court, flirt, propose and part by Monterey Bay
A proposed merger of two California pubradio stations fell apart when officials at California State University Monterey Bay voted to keep control ...Consortium outlines vision for Latino public radio service
A newly formed consortium of Latino public broadcasters is calling for public radio to expand its service to the nation’s growing Hispanic ...Abortion issue heats dispute over WDUQ underwriting
Pittsburgh jazz/news station WDUQ finds itself in the middle of an abortion-politics hardball contest between its licensee, Catholic-run Duquesne ...APTS preps proposals for ‘American Archive,’ copyright legislation
While the Association of Public Television Stations and its member stations’ activists will be busy enough fighting off the cutback of more ...Shadows in the corridors
The scene: a small conference room of the Senate Committee on Commerce, late on a February afternoon. The players: a senior committee staffer ...‘More of the same’: Bush request for $140+ million cutback
As in years past, the administration budget released on Feb. 5 [2007] calls for substantial cuts to CPB funding and other system ...Moyers commends optimism: Get up and try to be more
When Bill Moyers took the podium May 17 [2006] at PBS Showcase in Orlando, Fla., he stepped up to accept PBS’s “Be ...To probe Tomlinson CPB activities, reformers look to his other federal role
CPB isn’t covered by the Freedom of Information Act, so nonprofits probing Ken Tomlinson’s period as chairman continue trying to use FOIA ...Panel gets more specific about new services
A well-connected panel of business leaders, broadcasters and policy wonks last week got specific about what public broadcasting could do in the ...Democrats suggest ex-Sen. Pryor for one of the two CPB Board vacancies
The Senate Democratic leadership has asked the White House to appoint a Senate alumnus, David H. Pryor of Arkansas, to one of ...CPB inspector to investigate whether stations broke law in self-defense
CPB Inspector General Kenneth A. Konz says he will open an inquiry into whether public TV and radio stations used federal funds ...Tomlinson’s other job: State Dept. looks into his BBG role
The CPB inspector general’s harshly critical report on Kenneth Tomlinson is not the only scrutiny the former CPB Board chairman is facing. ...
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