Programs/Content
New preschool series aims to teach coding skills
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“Mia & Codie,” a public TV show from the creator of “WordWorld,” combines computational thinking and socioemotional learning.
American Public Media Group shuffles leadership
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Chandra Kavati is now SVP of business development and president of American Public Media.
Development
Capital campaign, spectrum sale fund new WOSU headquarters
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
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Jim Dunford rises from VP of programming and operations into the new PBS position.
Programs/Content
‘This Old House’ moves from presenter WGBH to WETA
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Public TV’s iconic home remodeling show premiered in 1979 on WGBH in Boston.
Local That Works
Milwaukee PBS teams up with newspaper chain to help communities address teen suicide
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“It makes me really hopeful to see collaborations like this happen because they help us accomplish more than … we’d be able to alone,” says Rory Linnane, lead reporter of “Kids in Crisis” for USA Today Network-Wisconsin.
People
ValleyPBS bids farewell to CEO after 7 months
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Jenny Toste had led the station since December.
System/Policy
Crossword: ‘The British Invasion’
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Test your public media knowledge with our latest challenging crossword.