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OETA's fundraising group asks court to intercede in disputes with station
The OETA Foundation's petition reveals acrimonious conflicts over everything from content production to management of CSGs.We couldn’t have covered these top stories of 2018 without you
And your year-end donation helps ensure that we can keep following harassment and workplace climate issues in 2019.'The World Is Yours': How the travelogue shaped early public broadcasting
The globetrotting quality of public media is neither new nor politically neutral and has roots in the earliest days of American broadcasting.
If public radio's smaller stations vanish, we all lose
"The ice is melting beneath our feet with the current business model," writes a station leader.WXXI to take over local alt-weekly
Station President Norm Silverstein said the deal “helps WXXI to better serve our community."Public TV is best equipped to educate on channel repack, station GM tells lawmakers
Bohdan Zachary of Milwaukee PBS testified in Congress Tuesday on the need for consumer education following the spectrum auction.
PBS Board adopts tiered pricing model for top sponsorships
The board also heard that PBS' old non–real-time satellite transponder will be turned off Jan. 2.New NPR tool provides richer data about podcast listening
Remote Audio Data aims to help podcast creators and advertisers better understand their audiences.Creating ‘After Paradise,’ a public radio show for Northern California's fire-ravaged communities
How North State Public Radio's exhausted news staff and a veteran public radio journalist conceived, birthed and launched a half-hour daily show within 72 hours.With generous help from volunteers, overextended California station creates local show about wildfire recovery
After the regional Society of Professional Journalists put out a call for journalists to help North State Public Radio's two-person newsroom, veteran host Tess Vigeland stepped in to direct the launch of "After Paradise," a daily news show.WGBH collaboration with NASA to yield new resources for space education
Over 50 activities allow students of all ages to learn about complicated space phenomena.'Car Talk' donation program splits from CARS/V-Dac merger
An announcement from "Car Talk" EP Doug Berman surprised competitor CARS and left some stations flummoxed.Alaska pubcasters pitch in to help Koahnic, station hit hardest by quake damage
Koahnic's KNBA may not be able to return to its studios and offices for months.Evans to leave PRPD, W.Va. pubcaster picks new leader and other comings and goings
Jody Evans, selected to lead PRPD in 2014, wants to return to working at a station.Public media must reimagine itself for a new era — or give up 'reason to exist'
"The time is right to re-examine basic assumptions about public media and to ask, anew, essential questions," writes an outgoing CPB board member.
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