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.
System/Policy
Tennessee radio station to cut jobs, local news
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The station will stop airing local newscasts and feature reports, but “the goal is to bring those back as soon as possible,” a spokesperson said.
System/Policy
After CPB support ends, Arkansas journalism collaboration scales back efforts
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Unable to raise enough money to sustain operations, KUAR in Little Rock laid off three Arkansas Public Media staffers.
Quick Takes
New Ready To Learn grants will center on ‘community collaboratives’
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Fourteen public television stations will each get $175,000.
Programs/Content
TV stations are getting more data, bigger audiences with end of Nielsen’s paper diaries
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A long-promised change in how Nielsen measures TV audiences in some markets brings benefits for public stations.
Obituaries
Former WVIA GM Bill Kelly dies at 71
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Kelly worked at the Pennsylvania station for four decades.
People
NPR’s Ydstie to end his 44-year career, and other comings and goings
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Economics Correspondent John Ydstie, who joined NPR in 1979, will retire Friday.
Programs/Content
Kansas station’s zoo cams tap global appetite for animal-watching
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KTWU’s webcasts of tigers and giraffes are pulling in YouTube ad income and finding fans in Germany, Japan and Bangladesh.
Quick Takes
NPR asks FCC for flexibility in aiding radio stations affected by TV repack
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In comments filed Wednesday, the network said eligible expenses proposed by the FCC “should be considered an initial provisional list of common anticipated expenses rather than a definitive catalog of all eligible reimbursable expenses.”
System/Policy
Upcoming ‘location-based experiences’ will feature PBS brand
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“Extending our brand into the location-based entertainment space offers new possibilities for connecting with our audience through learning and exploration,” said a PBS executive.
System/Policy
OSHA finds contractors at fault in fatal Missouri tower accident
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Current obtained the October OSHA report and related documents through a Freedom of Information Act request.