Development
WBUR, Greater Public receive Knight grant for digital transformation
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The grant puts WBUR over the $9 million goal for Catapult, its initiative to improve digital fundraising and audience experience.
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The grant puts WBUR over the $9 million goal for Catapult, its initiative to improve digital fundraising and audience experience.
The breakthrough agreement bundles live feeds of 150 stations and ad-supported channels featuring dramas, documentaries and “Reading Rainbow.”
“I compare what I’m doing here to missionary work in the sense that the idea and knowledge of public radio isn’t well known in Guam,” says News Director Naina Rao.
The Writers Guild of America voted to authorize a strike if the current contract expires Thursday.
Even in the face of declining audiences and high inflation, a CDP analysis finds that many public media organizations experienced new donor growth in FY24.
The PBS board could vote on the model as early as next month.
“We should be well prepared at every moment to talk with enthusiasm about the purpose and value of public media,” CEO Katherine Maher said.
Max McClellan was named EP of “PBS News Weekend.”
A declining rate of growth among Passport users is exposing cracks in new donor programs at TV and joint licensees.
KVIE and CapRadio have filed countering lawsuits laying claim to a transmission tower.
The staffers say the union would “safeguard our organization’s future success.”
“As traditional broadcast gives way to new media, public television needs to dust off its early spirit of scrappy, decentralized innovation.”