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CPB awards $2.65M for state government coverage
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
“Southwest Florida in Focus,” a half-hour of TV news for Fort Myers and beyond, launched as a cost-effective model for producing local coverage.
The FCC wants comments on suggested rules that will let broadcasters begin sending ATSC 3.0 transmissions.
The app focuses on short-form pieces and draws from a wide pool of content, some of which sounds decidedly un–public radio.
The grant will support reporting on inequality and marginalization along the U.S.–Mexico border.
Simon’s films included an unflinching, deeply intimate portrait of a Vietnam veteran, broadcast on PBS in 1981.
The station’s school-board licensee has suggested making news staffers employees of the school district.
With road trips to red states and dialogues about race and identity, producers for “The Takeaway” will hold out a microphone to people whose voices have been marginalized.
The live taping was Sam Sanders’ last episode as he moves on to his own podcast.
Partners in the multimedia project used social media marketing and a variety of digital tools to get a broad cross-section of voters talking about ballot measures.
As the spectrum auction winds down, the FCC plans to open another opportunity for stations to negotiate channel-sharing deals.
University president Wayne A. I. Frederick said the school “voluntarily withdrew from the auction when it became apparent that the relatively low yield would not justify relinquishing the university’s rights to broadcast WHUT.”