System/Policy
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 project marks the “largest non-capital investment that PBS39 has ever made,” according to the station.
NPR, WNYC, WBEZ and This American Life teamed up to make the deal.
A Pennsylvania district will reportedly no longer use Mission US: Flight to Freedom due to complaints from parents.
An outside law firm’s report on New York Public Radio’s workplace culture was widely panned by critics for not assigning blame for the harassment that employees endured.
The new WTTW president was most recently SVP of global brands for Hyatt Hotels.
The April 19 collapse of an Ozarks Public Television tower killed one worker and injured three.
Proponents say the system designed to move content from expensive satellite transponders to a terrestrial fiber-based system will be cheaper and more versatile.
Public Media Women in Leadership has received funding for a three-year program.
NPR also announced the head of a station collaboration on election coverage.
The wireless carrier and a team from PBS are working under tight deadlines to find new homes for public TV translators that are being displaced by the FCC’s repack of TV channels.