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Texas Tech Public Media cuts spark concern among university faculty
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The restructuring included layoffs and cuts to local programming.
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The restructuring included layoffs and cuts to local programming.
The commission is evaluating allegations that programs promoting nutritional supplements and other products violate its standards for noncommercial broadcasting.
Today’s higher education leaders face unprecedented financial pressures. What is your station doing to help them solve their problems?
The CPM model of advertising does not — and will not ever — work to sustain podcasting.
“We are reaching a really big audience,” says Abby Jenkins of PBS Kids. “They are born gamers.”
SIG will rebrand itself to Media Management as part of the purchase.
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A $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation supports HBCU stations in preserving historical recordings in their archives.
The job cuts affected staff working in children’s media, local news and the Interactive Engagement Group, among other units.
In an email to staff, outgoing CEO Matt Moog and board chair Robert Pasin said that revenues “are not growing to support our mission.”
While it’s too soon to project whether the station in central Pennsylvania will have layoffs, GM Isabel Reinert said it is clear that there is no way to deal with the budget challenges without addressing staffing.
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“This is an event that can bring an entire country together and show people the world in a way that only science can,” says Julia Cort, co-executive producer.
APM Studios will move away from being a standalone podcast studio.
More than 60 employees will be part of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union.
“Surely, we are capable of changing when the stakes are so high and the consequences of failure so dire. And make no mistake: the stakes are high.”
Longtime WTTW host and producer Geoffrey Baer has made programs about Chicago’s history and architecture since the 1990s. “Chicago Mysteries” offered a new way to tell the city’s story.
“Part of our vision is to lead the community conversation. … I see ‘Engage’ as the most public, consistent way we’re doing that,” says WMFE CEO Judith Smelser.
“This is a story that needs to be told … for my sake, for our family’s sake, and for those who will listen to it in Detroit and see themselves in it,” Mosley said.
A proposal to be forwarded to stations allocates $7.6 million of PBS’ own funds for strategic priorities.