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.
CPB
CPB grants fund expansion of video journalism at regional centers
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CPB is bolstering its financial support of five regional Local Journalism Collaborations to add video reporting units.
Documentaries
Firelight Media receives MacArthur grant for reserves, innovation fund
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Firelight Media, based in New York, gets $500,000 to expand its reserves and establish an innovation fund to experiment with digital storytelling platforms.
CPB
Spectrum auction issues dominate CPB Board meeting
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CPB is aware of as many as six public television stations considering going off the air, said Michael Levy, e.v.p., during the meeting, which was held by phone.
Podcasting
Not just about the money: Public radio veterans drawn to creative freedoms of podcasting
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Podcasts with public radio connections dominate iTunes podcast charts, so it’s no wonder that podcasting companies are snapping up talented producers who earned their stripes in public media.
mobile
NPR aims to raise profile of its podcasts with new directory
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NPR has a revamped, mobile-friendly hub for podcasts. But it isn’t done improving its podcast technology.
System/Policy
Five lessons public media can learn from commercial media
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A public radio and TV CEO shares gleanings from Columbia University’s Punch Sulzberger Program.
Podcasting
To boost income, podcasters look to partnerships, native ads and listeners
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Podcasters are creating business plans that are hybrids of unapologetically advertiser-based funding and direct listener support raised via crowdfunding, which in some cases is cultivated as monthly gifts.
People
Nycklemoe heads Mountain Lake PBS, NPR shifts news staffers, and other comings and goings in public media
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Nycklemoe succeeds Alice Recore, who became president in 2003 and retired Dec. 31.
Federal budget
Proposed federal budget includes level CPB funding, support for Ready To Learn, new interconnection system
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The CPB funds, which are approved two years before being paid out, not only stay at the current level but would include annual increases of roughly 2.2 percent through 2025.
Programs/Content
Louisiana network launches online archive of historic video
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A new digital archive co-created by Louisiana Public Broadcasting contains more than 500 hours of streamable online video, including civil-rights era broadcasts, Louisiana-themed cooking shows and speeches by political leaders. The Louisiana Digital Media Archive went live Jan. 20 after more than five years of development, featuring videos from both public and commercial broadcasters. “One of our missions is to create TV worth watching,” said Beth Courtney, president of LPB and a 30-year veteran of the station. “If we’ve made 40 years of TV worth watching, it’s worth saving.”
LPB inventoried and digitized video artifacts from the civil-rights and World War II eras as part of an American Archives pilot project in 2009, a CPB-funded effort to create a national archive of public television content.