System/Policy
California pubcasters escalate tower dispute
|
KVIE and CapRadio have filed countering lawsuits laying claim to a transmission tower.
Texas Public Radio employees seek to unionize amid leadership transition
|
The staffers say the union would “safeguard our organization’s future success.”
SPONSORED
Project Core: A vision for scale and growth
Over the past three years, CentralCast has been hard at work implementing critical upgrades that lay the foundation for a more resilient and advanced future. And now, the culmination of these efforts is taking shape in our most ambitious initiative yet: Project Core.
People
Interim GM at WPSU gets permanent post
|
Isabel Reinert has led the station on an interim basis since August 2017.
System/Policy
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.
Local That Works
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.
Programs/Content
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.
Development
Capital campaign, spectrum sale fund new WOSU headquarters
|
The open-space building incorporates classrooms, meeting centers and a media learning lab.
Development
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.
Tech
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.
People
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.
Programs/Content
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.
People
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.