System/Policy
CPB to replace Cox as president
CPB announced Friday it will replace President Kathleen Cox, its president for 10 months. She had been predecessor Robert Coonrod’s No. 2 executive ...Two ombudsmen will assist CPB in oversight role
CPB will have not just one but two longtime journalists as ombudsmen, the corporation announced April 5. Ken Bode, former host of ...Radio gets in on the Act
The plan was for a Public Television Act with no mention of dusty old radio. Not everyone signed on to the plan.Cincinnati’s WGUC acquires seven-station X-Star Network
WGUC will buy another Cincinnati public radio operation, WVXU and six affiliated repeater stations, from Xavier University. The sale price of $15 ...Finale for music as WETA goes all-news
To stop a long slide in audience, WETA-FM in Washington, D.C., will adopt an all-news format Feb. 28. With almost unanimous approval ...APTS, cablers craft digital carriage deal
The Association of Public Television Stations has struck a deal with the cable industry in which major cable operators will guarantee to carry ...Cost of democratic safeguards is steep, Pacifica discovers
Pacifica’s transition to a listener-elected board of directors carried an unexpectedly high price tag, and network executives are exploring cheaper alternatives. Last year ...CPB’s TV Future Fund was illegal, GAO finds
A long-anticipated report on public television by the General Accounting Office, released May 21, advises Congress that CPB illegally diverted money intended for stations ...Peace declared in the great Bronx tower war
At a feel-good press conference May 13, all parties hailed the resolution of a decade-long fight over the tower of Fordham University’s ...Standing on its own, WNYC takes cues from New York City’s vitality
"We don’t do anything in a small way,” says Laura Walker, and in her eight years as president of New York’s WNYC ...Public TV’s vision of itself: a lens for understanding the world
After some fiddling with language, station leaders Feb. 23 [2004] endorsed a new mission statement describing public TV as a “unifying force ...MPR to rep its own shows, mainstays of PRI catalog
Minnesota Public Radio will begin distributing many of its own programs this summer, depriving longtime distribution partner Public Radio International of strong ...Did CPB reallocate money illegally to create the Future Funds?
Under the spending formula imposed on CPB by Congress in 1981, does the corporation have the authority to spend some of the ...TV Future Fund will die, but R&D thrust lives on at CPB
The Television Future Fund is dead, long live the Television Future Fund. CPB will discontinue the R&D fund this fall, redirecting about $4 ...Required filing: a chance to show your stuff!
Quick — what’s your reaction when someone asks to see your station’s public file? A smile or a wince? And why does ...
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