Development
October CDP Index: Radio results remain sluggish while TV waits for next blockbuster
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A declining rate of growth among Passport users is exposing cracks in new donor programs at TV and joint licensees.
California pubcasters escalate tower dispute
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KVIE and CapRadio have filed countering lawsuits laying claim to a transmission tower.
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Quick Takes
PBS-commissioned survey finds 73 percent of voters oppose eliminating federal funding for public TV
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Support for funding spanned all regions of the country, with most respondents citing public TV’s educational mission as its most important value.
People
Pittsburgh’s WESA hires consultant John Sutton as GM
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Sutton is stepping back from his consulting firm to run the station under Terry O’Reilly, CEO of licensee Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation.
Diversity
Who are the rising black talents in public media?
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We need your help to identify up-and-coming talents whose names we don’t know yet and should.
Programs/Content
New Hampshire Public Radio goes to court in trademark dispute with ‘Outside’ owner
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The owner of the outdoors-focused magazine had claimed that the name of an NHPR podcast amounts to infringement.
Programs/Content
Travel ban complicates VPR’s special coverage of refugee resettlement
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Plans for the State Department to facilitate interviews fell apart while reporter Nina Keck was on the ground in Jordan.
Awards
NPR’s Andrea de Leon to receive PRNDI’s Leo C. Lee Award, and other awards in public media
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Also, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb will receive a Writers Guild award for his contributions to a “Frontline” documentary.
System/Policy
Licensee sells Kentucky’s WNKU to religious broadcaster
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The Bible Broadcasting Corp. will pay $1.9 million for the station.
System/Policy
California station reaps $72M in spectrum auction proceeds
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KRCB’s location was “considered prime real estate by mobile providers,” the station COO said.
People
Love trumps competition for married couple reporting for Fox News, NPR
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With Myre’s move to a new position at NPR, he and his wife Jennifer Griffin are again competing on a beat.
Quick Takes
WGBH allegedly dismisses reporter after discovering views on vaccines
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The Boston Globe says WGBH released the reporter after learning of “past statements linking vaccines and autism.”