System/Policy
Vegas PBS seeks to dismiss lawsuits filed by former employee
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The lawsuits filed by a former director of digital marketing accuse station leaders and other parties of defamation and discrimination.
North Dakota’s Prairie Public dodges bill threatening to end state funding
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A bill attempting to end state funding for public broadcasting failed to make it out of committee.
Programs/Content
Study points to ways public media could build teen and tween audience — and risks of not trying
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“If we don’t engage them now, the teens and tweens of today might not as adults of tomorrow value public media.”
Programs/Content
The Producers. (Is that title taken?)
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Appreciating a longtime talk show producer who “made me a better host because it seemed unforgivable to let her excellent work go to waste.”
System/Policy
One up, one down: New Jersey station receives state funding, Pennsylvania’s lose appropriation
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NJ PBS received $1 million, its first appropriation in a decade, while seven Pennsylvania stations lost support.
People
Comings and goings: John Van Hoesen to retire from VPR, C.J. Janovy rejoins KCUR …
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Van Hoesen joined the station in 2001.
System/Policy
New Hampshire Public Radio staffers form union
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The staffers are seeking voluntary recognition of their union from CEO Jim Schachter.
Programs/Content
How the Hindsight Project built new relationships between Southern stations and BIPOC filmmakers
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“It’s BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It’s not people who are from outside the South coming in and telling what they conceive of the South.”
System/Policy
CPB board boosts CSG funds by delaying Healthy Network Initiative for second year
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Board member Ruby Calvert said setting aside the initiative for another year is “the right thing to do.”
Tech
Washington’s WHUT to play central role in partnership launching local ATSC 3.0 signals
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WHUT’s broadcast signal will get new equipment and a power boost to serve as the ATSC 3.0 host station, carrying not only its own programming but streams from four major commercial stations.
Programs/Content
What might have happened: NPR sells off cultural programming, new network dubbed ‘NPR Music & Entertainment’
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In an alternate reality in 1983, NPR President Frank Mankiewicz, desperate for cash, unloads the network’s arts programs on a consortium of major-market stations. Where would arts programming be today?