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Commercial TV owner gives Helena station to Montana PBS
The new station will allow licensee Montana State University to operate a full-power PBS member station in the state capital for the first time.The last days of ‘Soul!’: Why a trailblazing show about black issues couldn’t last
An excerpt from a new book looks at the shifts in funding that doomed the documenting of an era.Profile 2015 study sizes up education, spending habits of NPR listeners
A quarter of NPR listeners watch no prime-time television.
Hazen Schumacher, host who introduced audiences to classic jazz, dies at 88
Schumacher’s Jazz Revisited aired for 30 years.Keillor’s goal by fall 2016: ‘To be a gray eminence’
Keillor wants to "fade away into well-deserved obscurity."On ‘R-words’ that the media shouldn’t (or maybe should) say
Rather than putting our energy into avoiding taking sides on the use of offensive terms, let’s put that energy into picking the right side.
WGBH cameraman Frank Lane dies; recorded historic James Brown concert
Lane worked at the Boston public broadcaster from 1968 through his retirement in 2003.WWNO wins ‘Morning Edition’ contest, gets show for free
NPR’s Spark initiative aimed to boost audience for Morning Edition and will focus next on All Things Considered.Europe’s public broadcasters undergoing many changes
The Guardian checks on recent happenings.Union shares details of NPR contract
The two-year contract includes pay raises of 2.5 percent that take effect Jan. 1, 2016, and Jan. 1, 2017.Push for major gifts advances as NPR, stations work together
The network’s Jazz Night in America and NPR One app have benefited from the effort.Vermont PBS to replace show host after sponsorship controversy
The host of Connect is a spokesperson for Vermont’s largest electric utility — which is a corporate sponsor of the station.Research informs new PBS tactics to woo national sponsors
PBS is ramping up efforts to attract a new generation of sponsors, with a campaign that combines paid ads and web-based marketing.‘The Pub’ #27: NPR One’s Sara Sarasohn, live from Lost & Found in Washington, D.C.
Seeing how listeners use the NPR app "is brand new and a little scary, but also priceless."Citing budget crunch, KUAC drops out of statewide Alaska radio network
A reduction in funding prompted KUAC to leave APRN, making it the state’s only pubcaster missing from the network.
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