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Florida’s IRSC Public Media and Mississippi Public Broadcasting will expand or improve their capacity to deliver emergency messages to at-risk communities.
A pilot of Cascade’s Local Streaming Initiative will introduce new tools for stations to customize the user experience for viewers and donors.
The station is trying to address the “really hard problem” of how local news organizations “get more reach, get more audience, get more money to pay for the good work they do,” says KQED’s Tim Olson.
“We’re at a point with technology where if there’s something you want to make or do, all you have to do now is ask.”
As ChatGPT turns one year old, we should be exploring how to use generative AI to enhance storytelling, engage communities and streamline operations.
Reflections on a career that started with a “poor man’s Nagra” and a nutcracker.
PMVG will use the Knight grant to further adoption of ATSC 3.0 among public media stations and to explore how it might generate income.
A major supplier of FM antennas and transmission equipment to public radio stations will remain in business under new ownership.
In a Q&A, lawyers Melodie Virtue and Brad Deutsch discuss what’s next for pubcasters experimenting with ATSC 3.0 and what questions are still too new to even have answers yet.
The Public Radio Satellite System is seeking a contractor to research future connectivity needs of stations large and small.
An agreement between KET and Public Media Connect is the first in which separately owned public broadcasting networks are cooperating on an ATSC 3.0 launch.
The potential sale of Shively Labs, one of the country’s only major manufacturers of high-power FM broadcast antennas, is causing concern among public radio engineers who depend on the company for challenging projects.
WAMU and KQED are using web-based technologies to provide live captions of their programs.
“As internet communications scholars, we propose that Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, should build a Mastodon server on the global network.”
Centralcast and Digital Convergence Alliance will combine their operations in Syracuse, N.Y., next year.
“Following the global success of our Tiny Desk Concerts, we are excited for our podcasts to reach new audiences on YouTube,” said NPR’s Anya Grundmann.
Stations are continuing to reinforce their datacasting efforts as the initial urgency of the pandemic has given way to longer-term planning.
Disruption and dislocation allowed some public media stations to plan — and even finish — upgrades to their headquarters.
“There are no roads to here, so the only way you get in is by airplane or ship, or if you have a snow machine,” says Pierre Lonewolf, chief engineer of KOTZ in Kotzebue, Alaska.
At the NAB Show, broadcast tech companies rolled out FM boosters that enable “zonecasting” and previewed the next-generation capabilities they’re developing for HD Radio.