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How public radio can build on its hidden strengths to solve podcasting’s biggest challenges
Look to your ideals and decades of experience creating programs that listeners value.At BizLab Summit, stations share lessons from experiments with new income streams
The center for pubmedia innovation is urging participants to "fail fast" with bold efforts to find new revenue sources.Update to fee model ties NPR's income to station donor revenue
The network's board approved last week a shift from basing station fees on broadcast audience, an effort to create a more "forward-looking" approach.
Comings and goings: PBS adds two VPs, Neary prepares to retire from NPR …
Neary joined NPR in 1982 as a newscaster and later became the network's first religion correspondent.NPR asks FCC to let more stations boost digital signals
The network argues that more flexibility in how the FCC grants such requests would "strengthen the existing digital radio ecosystem."‘Growing Bolder’ producers tweak self-help genre to promote healthy aging lifestyle in pledge
“Launchpad to What's Next” combines motivational talks with online tools and resources to “convert the inspiration into action,” says founder and host Marc Middleton.
In FCC proceeding, APTS makes case for aiding FirstNet
“To leave public television stations … on the sidelines of the FirstNet infrastructure is to ignore a robust, reliable and ubiquitous partner whose public safety capabilities have proven effective in a variety of critical use cases,” APTS told the FCC.WETA promotes John Wilson to SVP
Wilson began supervising the station’s national productions on an interim basis in September.‘Radiolab’ co-host Robert Krulwich will retire in January
Krulwich said his decision to retire was not because "anything bad has happened, more like the opposite.”Miami school board postpones vote on management of WLRN
A bid from South Florida PBS was challenged by fundraising group Friends of WLRN.University of Memphis approves transfer of WUMR license
The new owner is a collaboration between two local organizations.For a new variety show coming to public radio, a prairie farther south is home
With support from CPB, "Live From Cain's" will bring music and interviews to listeners from an iconic music venue in Oklahoma.Current Crossword: 'Giving Up'
Pledge to finish our latest crossword as soon as possible.Comings and goings: AmDoc expands team, Kopp quits in Aspen ...
The producer of public TV's "POV" added two managers to POV Engage and hired a producer for its series of short films.A quest for public radio bumper stickers: 'My Corolla is less a car now than a mobile museum'
After his Honda was totaled, a public radio journalist set out to cover his new Corolla "with a ridiculous amount of bumper stickers."
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