Programs/Content
How ‘Nightly Business Report’ defined daily business coverage on television
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The founding executive editor reflects on the program’s origins in a vastly different television landscape.
System/Policy
Senate approves first CPB funding increase in a decade
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The appropriation for the Ready To Learn grant program also increased.
System/Policy
Nevada Public Radio looks to access endowment to pay off $1.4 million in bills
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The station’s board and interim CEO have discovered roughly $700,000 owed to NPR, as well as other outstanding debts.
People
Former assistant GM will lead Detroit’s WDET
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Mary Zatina is returning to the station after more than 30 years.
System/Policy
Changes to FCC licensing standards lay groundwork for new radio filing windows
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Based on staff workloads and other FCC deadlines, a window for new noncommercial educational stations could open as early as next summer.
Programs/Content
How public radio can build on its hidden strengths to solve podcasting’s biggest challenges
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Look to your ideals and decades of experience creating programs that listeners value.
Featured in Category
At BizLab Summit, stations share lessons from experiments with new income streams
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The center for pubmedia innovation is urging participants to “fail fast” with bold efforts to find new revenue sources.
System/Policy
Update to fee model ties NPR’s income to station donor revenue
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The network’s board approved last week a shift from basing station fees on broadcast audience, an effort to create a more “forward-looking” approach.
Programs/Content
‘Growing Bolder’ producers tweak self-help genre to promote healthy aging lifestyle in pledge
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“Launchpad to What’s Next” combines motivational talks with online tools and resources to “convert the inspiration into action,” says founder and host Marc Middleton.
System/Policy
In FCC proceeding, APTS makes case for aiding FirstNet
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“To leave public television stations … on the sidelines of the FirstNet infrastructure is to ignore a robust, reliable and ubiquitous partner whose public safety capabilities have proven effective in a variety of critical use cases,” APTS told the FCC.
People
‘Radiolab’ co-host Robert Krulwich will retire in January
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Krulwich said his decision to retire was not because “anything bad has happened, more like the opposite.”
System/Policy
Miami school board postpones vote on management of WLRN
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A bid from South Florida PBS was challenged by fundraising group Friends of WLRN.
Programs/Content
For a new variety show coming to public radio, a prairie farther south is home
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With support from CPB, “Live From Cain’s” will bring music and interviews to listeners from an iconic music venue in Oklahoma.
People
A quest for public radio bumper stickers: ‘My Corolla is less a car now than a mobile museum’
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After his Honda was totaled, a public radio journalist set out to cover his new Corolla “with a ridiculous amount of bumper stickers.”
Programs/Content
WTTW’s Firsthand looks at impact of gun violence on victims, perpetrators and their families
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Producer Dan Protess profiled Chicagoans whose stories point to solutions to the city’s high rate of gun-related crimes.
People
Margaret Low on her ‘double homecoming’ to WBUR
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Low is returning to public radio in January to lead the Boston station.
People
Julian Wyllie joins Current’s reporting team
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He’ll report from Washington on public TV and CPB.
System/Policy
Why the Public Broadcasting Act needs an update to save local public media journalism
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A former CPB board member argues that the funder’s Regional Journalism Collaboratives “are based on priorities set by Washington, not localities.”
