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A public radio and TV CEO shares gleanings from Columbia University’s Punch Sulzberger Program.
Podcasters are creating business plans that are hybrids of unapologetically advertiser-based funding and direct listener support raised via crowdfunding, which in some cases is cultivated as monthly gifts.
The art of radio and TV theme music and how to improve it.
A friendly Super Bowl wager between the top executives of public television stations in Boston and Seattle will yield one a booty of seafood or shellfish after Sunday’s game.
Charren founded Action for Children’s Television (ACT) in 1968 to fight commercialism in children’s television programming.
The discussion was friendly, but emotions ran high as filmmakers and public TV executives examined their often stormy relationship.
This list supplements Current’s Pipeline 2015, published in November 2014 and based on responses to our annual survey of public TV producers. Programs appearing in this update, three of which are offered for national broadcast this winter season, went to contract late last year or were submitted after the deadline for the earlier list. Winter ’15
Mia, A Dancer’s Journey
Producing organizations: Slavenska Dance Preservation Inc., PBS SoCaL. Distributor: NETA. Length: 1 x 60.
The program, produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting with partner Lion TV, had dwindled from 11 episodes per summer run to just four last season.
Adam Ragusea hosts our weekly podcast about news and trends in public media, posting every Thursday.
Marie Nelson arrives at PBS a time of transition and challenges.
New York’s WNET is reversing its decision — at least temporarily — to shift independent documentaries from primetime on its main channel to the secondary WLIW on Long Island, which reaches a far smaller audience.
The station later delayed its plans.
Broadcast TV in the U.S. will undergo two big changes in the next few years, and a clash in the timeline for those shifts promises big headaches for pubTV stations.
The veteran host and reporter sees a chance to “rescue fashion from frivolity and rank consumerism.”
Public radio journalists find themselves navigating an ethical gray area as they receive funds for reporting on education from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Association of Independents in Radio is preparing to roll out its next iterations of Localore, the innovation initiative that paired indie producers with local stations.
PBS staff asked Current to stop photographing as Brant Olson was put against a wall and handcuffed.
Philanthropist, investor and former cable TV executive Jarl Mohn will join NPR as its new c.e.o. July 1, the network’s board announced Friday. Mohn has served on the board of KPCC in Los Angeles since 2002 and is currently chair. He has worked mainly in commercial media, with a run as g.m. of MTV Networks from 1986–90. From 1990–98 he was c.e.o. of E! Entertainment Television, which he also founded.
Lessons learned from 10 station-based multimedia productions that tested new models of community service and engagement.
The grant will fund a film focusing mainly on the oil boom’s effects on Native tribes.