Top producers at five stations have devised a flexible approach for sharing news segments on timely national issues.

The open-space building incorporates classrooms, meeting centers and a media learning lab.

But to continue growing income and increasing donor value, stations will have to get better at upgrading sustainers.

Engineers at public TV stations in the Mountain West are still coping with wintry weather as they try to complete their pieces of the national conversion of translators to new channels.

Earlier James Baum led KRSC in Claremore, Okla.; WLVT in Bethlehem, Pa.; and KETC in St. Louis.

Station sites also benefited from Facebook's "Today In" feature and a bump in search traffic.

Jim Dunford rises from VP of programming and operations into the new PBS position.

Public TV's iconic home remodeling show premiered in 1979 on WGBH in Boston.

“It makes me really hopeful to see collaborations like this happen because they help us accomplish more than ... we’d be able to alone,” says Rory Linnane, lead reporter of "Kids in Crisis" for USA Today Network-Wisconsin.

Jenny Toste had led the station since December.

"No single entity can do it alone, but collectively, we can evolve to strengthen public media’s relationship with its audiences."

“There’s something humbling and humiliating about a group exercise class,” said host Anna Sale. “We thought, let’s just get together and do something really fun as a 'Death, Sex & Money' community.”

An eight-episode prequel is setting the stage for the PBS Kids show's July premiere.