System/Policy
Joan Kroc’s $200M gift to NPR encourages big thinking about public radio’s future
Talk about how to spend the record gift began at a meeting of the network’s board last week.Radio that’s representative: Listeners control vote for Pacifica boards
Pacifica Radio is emerging from bitter years of factional struggle with new bylaws that may make it the world’s most democratic media ...Donors demand clearer view of station reality
The bad news: Public radio is a small part of a rapidly expanding nonprofit sector. Competition with other nonprofits for mind-share and ...Donors demand clearer view of station reality
Fundraisers got an outsiders’ view of pubradio from a former insider at the Public Radio Development and Marketing Conference, July 10 [2003], ...Managers’ forum builds a consensus: Goodbye!
Five years after setting it up as a way of helping public TV make decisions with new decisiveness and agility, members voted ...Public broadcasting system revenues, 1982–2003
The system’s revenues passed $2 billion late in the 1990s and $2.3 billion during fiscal year 2003, the latest year for which ...Dereg struggle seen assisting public TV
There’s hope for public broadcasting in the upwelling of citizen opposition to FCC deregulation of commercial TV, broadcast historian Robert McChesney said ...CPB will focus on three initiatives to assist public TV
Wielding a grim financial analysis of public TV by a big-name consulting firm, CPB has begun a campaign to glue together a ...Talk through ‘gray areas,’ giving staff a moral compass
A manager in ethical hot water can be compared to a frog in a soup pot, says Carter McNamara. If you put ...Autonomy, mutual benefit seen by new N.Y. partners
Now they’re sister stations WNET WLIW Cume households* 3.1 mil. 2.1 mil. Annual spending $180 mil. $14 mil. Employees (approx.) 450 80** Members 350,000 < 50,000 *Nielsen cume audiences are for one week in November. **WLIW employees ...Strategic advantage: women as station leaders
There are 31 women general managers in public television. When this was reported to a gathering of women at the 2002 PBS ...PBS loses biggest underwriter as it considers 30-second credits
ExxonMobil will stop underwriting Masterpiece Theatre after spring 2004, the oil company announced Dec. 13. It has spent more than $250 million on MT and ...Zwerdling remains at NPR in new job; tensions still run high
NPR has promised veteran reporter Daniel Zwerdling another year of work, but colleagues are still asking what management’s decision to eliminate his ...NPR reporters challenge Zwerdling layoff
Zwerdling hopes his bosses will reverse their decision to end his job — and so do dozens of colleagues.NPR asks porn entrepreneur to drop KCRW from hold music
It was almost a landmark case: NPR vs. The World’s Most Downloaded Woman. The woman is Danni Ashe, a web-porn entrepreneur whom ...
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