System/Policy
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PBS’s budget for next year reflects a harsh reality: Revenues from member stations are flat for a third straight year, and scant ...With projects on hold, PBS hunts spendable cash, tweaks primetime schedule
Don’t tell the county fire marshal, but the president of PBS keeps working while her staff evacuates the building in deference to ...State after state decides how much to cut system aid
In state capitals, public broadcasting advocates have been fighting uphill battles to preserve a key piece of stations’ revenue puzzle.With WMFE out, there’s a hole in PBS map
WMFE’s sale of its TV station in Orlando, Fla., leaves two smaller public stations reluctant to assume the role of big kid ...Deep chat: ‘Kudos to NPR for the 11 percent. My focus is serving the other 89 percent’
For more than 20 years, public radio has followed a winning formula that is often summarized as “super-serve the core.” That is, ...Editorial integrity panel says the time’s right to think about principles
Now might not seem like the best time for the public broadcasting system to be pondering philosophical questions of identity and purpose, ...The right jabs public radio with video sting using NPR fundraiser’s words
Neither Ron Schiller nor Betsy Liley had eaten before at Café Milano, the upscale see-and-be-seen restaurant in Georgetown, before Feb. 22, when ...House bill saves no money but fights ‘liberal’ bogeyman
After a nearly two-hour battle pitting fiscal conservatism against the value of publicly funded media, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a ...DISARRAY: Takedown leaves gaps in network’s top ranks
NPR is facing the most serious political crisis in its history with no chief executive to speak for it, no chief fundraiser ...NPR loses c.e.o., its third exec swept away by political tornado
One day after denouncing her top fundraiser and nine weeks after asking her news chief to resign, NPR President Vivian Schiller stepped ...Are we here for 11% of the public or for all of it?
Usually the only speakers in the “public comment” period after an NPR Board meeting are several regional reps of stations, but they were ...Economic crisis may force cuts in aid to pubcasting
“At this point, any and all funding for public broadcasting is at risk,” the Association for Public Television Stations said.House vote would axe CPB in 2013
Last time, in 2005, the emissary to Congress was Clifford the Big Red Dog. This time, it’s an aardvark named Arthur. Last ...With $6.75 million purchases, WNKU triples its reach
The station is buying two country-music outlets in southern Ohio.In Pittsburgh, a broker turns operator
News/jazz WDUQ-FM will be sold to a joint partnership between another Pittsburgh pubradio station, WYEP, and a new local nonprofit established by ...
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