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PlanPhilly sees brighter future with move to WHYY
The site covers beats including the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, the city’s zoning code and preservation and transportation issues.Matter launches new class of media startups
Media startup accelerator Matter launches its fourth class on entrepreneurs.Aereo’s end comes with court-approved asset sale
Bankrupt Internet TV service Aereo’s curtain call will be a sale of its assets, ending a series of legal setbacks that landed ...Fix to pubradio’s loudness problem rolls out to stations
Sssshhh . . . the sound of public radio is about to get a little quieter. But if all goes according to ...Public TV stations face challenging wait for arrival of ATSC 3.0 standard
Broadcast TV in the U.S. will undergo two big changes in the next few years, and a clash in the timeline for ...“Evolution and revolution” coming as ATSC readies new broadcast standard
Five years after pubcasters switched off the last of their analog TV transmitters and advanced into an all-digital world, planning is underway ...Public Radio Satellite System adopts new standard for audio levels
The Public Radio Satellite System adopted standards Thursday intended to normalize audio levels among the programs it distributes to stations. PRSS adopted an ...Appeal to protect public TV’s translators gets little traction with FCC
Pubcasters fear that hundreds of translators could be threatened by the spectrum auction planned for next year.Working group nears standard for audio levels in PRSS content
Members of an NPR working group aiming to standardize levels of audio content delivered via the Public Radio Satellite System believe they ...In maintaining towers, stations face higher costs, lack of space
If any part of the broadcast plant ever merited the label “necessary evil,” a top nominee would be the tower. Expensive to maintain, ...Aereo takes another lump in search for legal legitimacy
Internet TV service Aereo’s bid to find a workable business model suffered another legal setback Thursday, with the U.S. Court of Appeals ...Carolla settlement with Personal Audio averts trial for podcast patent case
The company says it no longer intends to sue podcasters who make only "modest amounts of money" from the technology.In Illinois, WTVP takes over TV broadcast operations for WQPT
The broadcast signal for WQPT-TV in Moline, Ill., is now originating from WTVP-TV in Peoria, about 90 miles to the southeast. WQPT previously outsourced ...Changes to FCC rules ease requirements for tower owners, tenants
Pubcasters who own broadcast towers are about to get regulatory relief thanks to a FCC decision that closes the books on a ...NPR Labs to end run as stand-alone unit after losing consulting work
NPR will integrate NPR Labs into its general budget and tighten its focus on public radio after almost five years of running ...
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