System/Policy
On the road with a circuit-riding Native American radio engineer
Lakota radio engineer Alex Lookingelk rides the highways of Wyoming, Montana and North and South Dakota, covering as many as 5,000 miles ...As local as appropriate
As different as they are, these public radio outposts share a carefully tuned appropriateness of structure. There’s the young two-transmitter operation on ...Friction and smoke at Whiteriver
The internecine warfare at KNNB, the public radio station on the White Mountain Apache reservation in east central Arizona, seems insignificant now, ...While rhetoric flows, WFUV and opponents seek alternative tower site
Fordham University’s WFUV-FM and its opponents across the street at the New York Botanical Garden have been quietly pursuing an alternative site ...Markey, Dodd will back trust fund for digital content
A bill introduced in the House May 2 brings the DOIT proposal for a trust fund supporting digital educational content one step ...House hearing loomed as CPB panel rushed to fix grant rules
As Congress threatened to convene a hearing on how CPB distributes its money, a public TV review panel released a proposal last ...Tower collapse takes engineer, pubcast signals
When terrorists brought down the World Trade Center in an imploding, crumbling crash, they not only destroyed New York City’s highest buildings ...Securing the union, pumping up the volume, bowling in a league
From the opening moments of its 2001 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PBS drew on the city’s role in U.S. history and a ...What’s all this I hear about ‘social capital’?
Can you remember when you first heard the word “paradigm”? All of sudden everything was “paradigms” — shifting, evolving or disappearing . ...Spending goals, slowdown prompt 60 layoffs at PBS
Anticipating the rollout of a new strategic plan and budget proposal, PBS laid off 60 employees March 15. Although the 9 percent cutback of ...Friends group keeps control of Colorado’s KUNC
A 20-day campaign to retain local control of KUNC generated more than $2 million in pledges from some 2,000 supporters.Public TV privatization drive falters in Idaho
The campaign to throw Idaho Public Television out of the state budget seems to have run out of oomph. On Feb. 20 ...Intervention by Congress slashes LPFM licensing 80 percent
Low-power FM? Try nearly no-power. The scope of the controversial noncommercial service shrunk abruptly last month when Congress effectively cut the number ...Forum urges strong role for public TV in education
If the National Forum for Public Television Executives has its way, public TV will: raise an additional $200 million a year by loosening ...Will Senate loosen definition of ‘educational’ channels?
Public broadcasters are ramping up efforts to secure support of their position in the Senate after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved ...
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