Development
Nine pubcasters receive $100,000 Press Forward grants
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
The June through August 2024 period was, at best, sluggish for station fundraising across several key performance indicators compared to the same period in 2023.
“If we don’t engage them now, the teens and tweens of today might not as adults of tomorrow value public media.”
Appreciating a longtime talk show producer who “made me a better host because it seemed unforgivable to let her excellent work go to waste.”
NJ PBS received $1 million, its first appropriation in a decade, while seven Pennsylvania stations lost support.
Van Hoesen joined the station in 2001.
The staffers are seeking voluntary recognition of their union from CEO Jim Schachter.
“It’s BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It’s not people who are from outside the South coming in and telling what they conceive of the South.”
Board member Ruby Calvert said setting aside the initiative for another year is “the right thing to do.”
WHUT’s broadcast signal will get new equipment and a power boost to serve as the ATSC 3.0 host station, carrying not only its own programming but streams from four major commercial stations.
In an alternate reality in 1983, NPR President Frank Mankiewicz, desperate for cash, unloads the network’s arts programs on a consortium of major-market stations. Where would arts programming be today?
PBS CFO and Treasurer Tom Tardivo said the new dues amount to a “modest increase.”