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Veto by Alaska's governor threatens funding for state pubcasters
An end to state funding could devastate Alaska's small and medium-sized stations, according to the executive director of Alaska Public Broadcasting Inc.By inviting their kids along, WTMD engages new parents missing out on live music
“We’re basically raising the next generation of WTMD listeners at the shows,” said Sam Sessa, WTMD’s Baltimore music coordinator.Public TV stations collaborate on covering marijuana legalization
Top producers at five stations have devised a flexible approach for sharing news segments on timely national issues.
Capital campaign, spectrum sale fund new WOSU headquarters
The open-space building incorporates classrooms, meeting centers and a media learning lab.Growth in sustainers helped stations hold on to more donors in FY2018
But to continue growing income and increasing donor value, stations will have to get better at upgrading sustainers.Never-ending winter hampers conversion of TV translators
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.
Baum sets retirement from Virginia’s Blue Ridge PBS
Earlier James Baum led KRSC in Claremore, Okla.; WLVT in Bethlehem, Pa.; and KETC in St. Louis.Study finds NPR station websites grew audience with coverage of local midterms
Station sites also benefited from Facebook's "Today In" feature and a bump in search traffic.Comings and goings: PBS creates station services SVP post, SoCal stations hire CFO ...
Jim Dunford rises from VP of programming and operations into the new PBS position.‘This Old House’ moves from presenter WGBH to WETA
Public TV's iconic home remodeling show premiered in 1979 on WGBH in Boston.Milwaukee PBS teams up with newspaper chain to help communities address teen suicide
“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.ValleyPBS bids farewell to CEO after 7 months
Jenny Toste had led the station since December.Crossword: 'The British Invasion'
Test your public media knowledge with our latest challenging crossword.Two House bills seek to ban federal funds to CPB and NPR
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) has once again proposed legislation to defund CPB and NPR.How CPB is accelerating digital transformation across public media
"No single entity can do it alone, but collectively, we can evolve to strengthen public media’s relationship with its audiences."
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