System/Policy
Florida dean pushes to cut expenses, gets pushback about blurred roles
Dean Wright has asked his outside advisors to cut costs by consolidating management of its two commercial and three public stations—creating a ...What’s the best use, if any, for KXOT in Seattle/Tacoma?
Seattle news/talk station KUOW is reevaluating its plans for an FM signal it’s been leasing in Tacoma, Wash., after a feasibility study ...Fiscal year-end layoffs include 10% of PBS staff
Swamped by the recession tsunami as they prepared for the new fiscal year, public broadcasters at PBS headquarters; WQLN in Erie, Pa.; ...PBS grandfathers sectarian shows
In a compromise with the few pubTV stations that carry religious programming, the PBS Board voted June 16 to allow them to ...Flint, Mich., to lose WFUM as locally run public TV station
Last fiscal year, station operations cost $4.2 million, but revenues covered just two-thirds of that, falling short by $1.48 million.Diversity: More than good intentions?
Several minority advocates who received the report said they appreciated PBS’s effort, but they found it wanting.NPR cuts deeper as forecast darkens
In a new round of budget-cutting, NPR has reduced salaries and benefits for its officers and is proposing that union employees accept ...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 ...
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