Programs/Content
Kentucky Public Radio’s recipe for a statewide voter guide success
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It takes some planning to create a voter guide that geolocates users, but the payoff is entirely worth it.
Why public media must support colleagues in the path of climate disasters
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We in public media often refer to our little world as “the system.” If we are, in fact, an interdependent system, fundraising to support fellow stations and staffers in distress is the kind of thing we can do to prove it.
Quick Takes
Deal with Miami station keeps NPR on air in Palm Beach
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WLRN reached an agreement with Educational Media Foundation, the translator’s new owner.
Programs/Content
David Remnick: “Radio is an obsession of mine”
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The New Yorker editor previews the magazine’s new weekly radio show, a collaboration with WNYC.
Programs/Content
WNET moves ‘MetroFocus’ newsmagazine from weekly to daily
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The public affairs show started four years ago as a web-only production.
People
Longtime WAMU host Ed Walker to retire
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Walker has hosted The Big Broadcast on WAMU since 1990 and helped launch the station in 1951.
Tech
Nielsen tweaks measurement of radio audience amid hush-hush adoption of Voltair boxes
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A Nielsen Audio chief engineer tacitly acknowledged that the company’s PPM technology does not fully measure listening in noisy real-world environments.
System/Policy
FCC issues initial bids for first phase of spectrum auction
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Among the larger opening bids for public television spectrum are $775 million for New Jersey Public Television and $672 million for WLIW, both operated by WNET.
Programs/Content
CBC approach to election coverage offers lessons for U.S. pubmedia
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The CBC digital team’s latest major voter-engagement initiative is a collaboration with Google’s civic engagement team.
Programs/Content
Drop in younger listeners makes dent in NPR news audience
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The trend could affect revenue for NPR and its member stations.
Quick Takes
It’s official: WPBT and WXEL are now South Florida PBS
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The two have been in talks on the deal for more than a year.
Programs/Content
KERA reels in awards, audience with multiplatform project on hip fractures
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“The Broken Hip” received widespread recognition, including an Online News Association award.