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Longtime WNYC music host Oscar Brand dies at 96
Brand hosted the station’s “Folklife Festival” for more than 70 years, earning him a Guinness world record.Nonprofit news outlets mirror overall media in diversity, according to ASNE survey
The survey found that minority employment is at 23 percent for online-only sites, slightly higher than the 17 percent reported for daily newspapers.TV spectrum auction enters next stage with new bidding, lower prices
With an oversupply of astronomically priced spectrum offered in the auction’s first stage, Public Media Company analysts predict what’s ahead.
History-themed ‘BackStory’ to end weekly hourlong radio show, continue as podcast
Producers plan to keep providing segments and other broadcast content to stations.KUOW partners with independent podcast about raising transgender child
“How to Be a Girl” is hosted by an anonymous mother in Seattle.Reshuffling of NPR Music includes farewell to ‘Microphone Check’ team
The network is also deepening partnerships with stations and filling new roles in the division.
PBS makes changes, Sarasohn leaves NPR after 24 years and more comings and goings in public media
PBS has reorganized its digital and marketing team, while also hiring and promoting executives in other departments.What does the public radio host of the future look and sound like?
The executive producer of WAMU’s successor to “The Diane Rehm Show” shares how the station is evaluating host candidates.Mark Handley, former New Hampshire Public Radio president and NPR board chairman, dies at 74
Handley was president and CEO of NHPR for 15 years.CPB IG audit finds station’s digital syndication revenue can’t count as fundraising
“The mechanisms for funding our work are evolving in the digital space,” responded TPT President Jim Pagliarini.Stanley Nelson urges academy to reach beyond comfort zone for new talent
Accepting an award for lifetime achievements, Nelson said that television has failed to tell “the full American story.”NPR’s website draws record audience during first presidential debate
More than 5 million users visited NPR.org Monday.Even after retiring, MPR founder Bill Kling seeks to improve public radio
Kling retired in 2011 but still has plenty to say about his field.Glass: Stations must create to survive
The best way for stations to deal with their anxieties about on-demand listening, Glass advised, is to experiment with podcasting.Analysts call for change in pubTV workforce, culture under ATSC 3.0 standard
Under the new standard, television will become “a key part of a network infrastructure in the home,” according to consultant Vinnie Curren. The change has implications for "the kind of people we hire and the culture that we’re building."
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