System/Policy
For LPFMers, radio act brings ‘a ton of joy’
Low-power FM advocates are celebrating a hard-won victory with enactment of the Local Community Radio Act, approved in the last days of ...‘170 Million Americans’ drive begins to defend federal aid
The big audience statistic reveals for the first time a comprehensive estimate of public media users across all platforms.Fight over NPR funding: is it a “culture war,” or principled debate?
What’s really at stake in the battle over federal funding to NPR, and how can the field’s advocates make the best case ...NPR Board hires counsel to probe what went wrong
Reacting to NPR’s abrupt image makeover — from ascendant news organization to partisan punching bag — the network’s board last week hired ...Schiller apologizes to pubradio colleagues for handling of Williams firing
NPR President Vivian Schiller dispatched this apology Sunday evening, Oct. 24 [2010], six days after the network set off a pre-election political ...Frontline’s producer on pledge shows and online ads
... This is our deepest embarrassment as public broadcasters. I have heard the arguments, and I understand the imperatives, but to think ...Stewards for the media future
What public broadcasting can do to plan for its own future and for federal policies that serve the public interest In the ...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. ...
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