System/Policy
NPR CEO warns of ‘hostile environment’ ahead for journalism, scrutiny of pubmedia
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“We should be well prepared at every moment to talk with enthusiasm about the purpose and value of public media,” CEO Katherine Maher said.
October CDP Index: Radio results remain sluggish while TV waits for next blockbuster
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A declining rate of growth among Passport users is exposing cracks in new donor programs at TV and joint licensees.
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Programs/Content
After WNKU sale, Cincinnati station adds Triple A service
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Cincinnati Public Radio hopes to attract WNKU listeners after the station is sold.
Development
Sesame Workshop named semifinalist in $100M MacArthur Foundation grant competition
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Its proposal, one of eight selected as semifinalists, targets children who face violence, limited access to education, loss of loved ones and other challenges.
Quick Takes
PBS-commissioned survey finds 73 percent of voters oppose eliminating federal funding for public TV
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Support for funding spanned all regions of the country, with most respondents citing public TV’s educational mission as its most important value.
People
Pittsburgh’s WESA hires consultant John Sutton as GM
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Sutton is stepping back from his consulting firm to run the station under Terry O’Reilly, CEO of licensee Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation.
Diversity
Who are the rising black talents in public media?
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We need your help to identify up-and-coming talents whose names we don’t know yet and should.
Programs/Content
New Hampshire Public Radio goes to court in trademark dispute with ‘Outside’ owner
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The owner of the outdoors-focused magazine had claimed that the name of an NHPR podcast amounts to infringement.
Programs/Content
Travel ban complicates VPR’s special coverage of refugee resettlement
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Plans for the State Department to facilitate interviews fell apart while reporter Nina Keck was on the ground in Jordan.
Awards
NPR’s Andrea de Leon to receive PRNDI’s Leo C. Lee Award, and other awards in public media
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Also, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb will receive a Writers Guild award for his contributions to a “Frontline” documentary.
System/Policy
Licensee sells Kentucky’s WNKU to religious broadcaster
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The Bible Broadcasting Corp. will pay $1.9 million for the station.
System/Policy
California station reaps $72M in spectrum auction proceeds
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KRCB’s location was “considered prime real estate by mobile providers,” the station COO said.