System/Policy
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 ...Suit resolved, MPR and PRI maintain ties
In settling its lawsuit over the ownership of Marketplace, Public Radio International secured its grip on its most popular programs. The agreement will ...PBS President Pat Mitchell: ‘I think I’ll be learning every day of the year’
Since she was hired as PBS president early in February [2000], Pat Mitchell has met with 60 or 70 of public TV’s ...Bills seek to protect preachers on educational channels
Though the FCC backed off quickly, conservative members of Congress are pushing bills to make sure the commission doesn’t try again to ...In fights for noncommercial channels, FCC gives an edge to the locals
Until recently, it seemed that Simon Frech’s squabble with two religious broadcasters over an FM frequency would never end. In 1995, the ...NPR asks FCC to delay, rethink low-power FM
NPR took a different tack March 16 in the ongoing assault on the FCC’s controversial plan to license low-power FM (LPFM) stations. ...‘Hasty mistake’ at WFDD prompts talk of ideals
For the faculty of Wake Forest University, the hush order given to reporters at the ...For the first time, a producer leads PBS
PBS’s new president is Pat Mitchell, departing head of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television, whose appointment was ratified by the PBS ...FCC OKs noncommercial low-power FM over broadcasters’ objections
The FCC’s establishment of two low-power FM (LPFM) classes of stations — 10-watt and 100-watt — could populate radio dials with more ...
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