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Sean Plater appointed GM for WHUT
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Plater, an alumnus of licensee Howard University, plans to expand content production and oversee the launch of local ATSC 3.0 signals.
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Plater, an alumnus of licensee Howard University, plans to expand content production and oversee the launch of local ATSC 3.0 signals.
With a two-year grant renewal from CPB, the journalism initiative will work with 20 stations on community engagement practices.
Alexander will be a co-EP for the production alongside Marcy Gunther, director of media development for children’s media at GBH. Kay Donmyer, a writer for “Curious George,” is co-creator and head writer.
Schneider returns to public media as successor to Mark Vogelzang, who retired June 30.
Calderone succeeds Donald Boswell, who is retiring after more than two decades of leadership of the stations.
The Indianapolis-based public broadcaster said that it “intends to maintain several staff positions” at the station in West Lafayette, Ind.
GBH promoted Dorothea Gillim to creative director and Marisa Wolsky to director of children’s STEM media.
Magura, who will join the station in September, is leaving WCTE in Cookeville, Tenn.
“If we don’t engage them now, the teens and tweens of today might not as adults of tomorrow value public media.”
Appreciating a longtime talk show producer who “made me a better host because it seemed unforgivable to let her excellent work go to waste.”
Van Hoesen joined the station in 2001.
“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.”
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.
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?
PBS CFO and Treasurer Tom Tardivo said the new dues amount to a “modest increase.”
Tong has worked for “Marketplace” for more than 16 years.
Hendryx previously worked for newspapers in Kansas and radio stations in Texas.