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What public radio can learn from pro wrestling’s loyal fan base
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“Sometimes, the most valuable insights come from looking beyond our immediate environment.”
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“Sometimes, the most valuable insights come from looking beyond our immediate environment.”
After the hurricane wiped out infrastructure across western North Carolina, BPR focused on basic information, such as road outages and where to get drinking water.
The staffers are seeking voluntary recognition of their union from CEO Jim Schachter.
“It’s BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It’s not people who are from outside the South coming in and telling what they conceive of the South.”
Board member Ruby Calvert said setting aside the initiative for another year is “the right thing to do.”
WHUT’s broadcast signal will get new equipment and a power boost to serve as the ATSC 3.0 host station, carrying not only its own programming but streams from four major commercial stations.
In an alternate reality in 1983, NPR President Frank Mankiewicz, desperate for cash, unloads the network’s arts programs on a consortium of major-market stations. Where would arts programming be today?
PBS CFO and Treasurer Tom Tardivo said the new dues amount to a “modest increase.”
Tong has worked for “Marketplace” for more than 16 years.
Hendryx previously worked for newspapers in Kansas and radio stations in Texas.
Hunton fills the vacancy left by Kim Johnson, who resigned from the board and PBS12 in Denver.
The community radio station in Charlottesville, Va., will turn the show “Jazz at 100” into a curriculum for high school and early college students.