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Meetings for station leaders will focus on ATSC 3.0 TV broadcast standard
Business, technical and legal experts will update participants on the potential ATSC 3.0 holds for public media.New APM podcast revisits unsolved case of child abduction
The podcast debuts Sept. 13.Tennessee station switches to Americana format
WMOT partners with Music City Roots for the new format.
Public TV sustainer growth may be slowing, but still shows progress
Sustainers “are still the best possible source of membership revenue,” said Michal Heiplik of Contributor Development Partnership.Pittsburgh Public Media asks supporters to back jazz station
The station needs to raise $150,000 by the end of the year to broadcast on a new FM signal.Greater Public donations help pubcasters after Louisiana floods
More than $11,000 has been distributed to 12 station employees and their families.
Ow, Canada: Cross-border crackdowns take toll on station donations
Border broadcasters are taking various approaches to handling challenges to Canadian friends groups.‘Prairie Home’ host announces new house band
Two members are in Thile’s band Punch Brothers.Philadelphia’s WXPN reaches membership milestone
The station’s donor base grew 11 percent over two years.Podcast audiences look increasingly like America
The ethnic diversity of podcast listeners has grown in the last five years.WGBH, WNET Writers Guild members agree to new contract
The deal provides a 3 percent increase in minimum salaries effective July 1, 2016.Wyoming Public Radio expands Triple A music
The new music programming will air on three FM signals.Channeling Charles Siepmann for public media’s future
The media reformer and scholar urged listeners to remember that the “wavelengths of the air belong to the people of America.”Pubmedia win several awards at AAJA convention
Pubmedia producers won awards in several categories at the Asian-American Journalists Association’s national convention this month in Las Vegas.APM, Washington Post seek submissions for new podcast on black history
Submissions will be considered for “Historically Black,” an eight-episode weekly podcast set to launch Sept. 19.
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