System/Policy
NPR, advocacy group call on Congress to give university stations access to PPP
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Tyler Falk, Reporter |
University stations have been shut out of applying for the relief loans.
Programs/Content
Filmmakers join Kerger at press tour to discuss pandemic’s effect on forthcoming PBS series
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At an executive session with the PBS president, Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates Jr. discussed how the pandemic has affected productions of their next major series.
Programs/Content
Turn around radio’s audience losses by being ‘Fringe-friendly’
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The recent decline in listening has been staggering, but so is the opportunity lying right behind it to make infrequent listeners more loyal.
Programs/Content
With in-person events on hold, organizations turn to ‘next best thing’ in virtual gatherings
By Tyler Falk, Reporter |
The pandemic has forced nonprofit and public media to rethink their events strategies.
System/Policy
Giovannoni: Listening dynamics of core NPR News listeners ‘are shifting in the wrong direction’
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Three full months into the COVID-19 pandemic, listening to NPR News stations remains only 80% of what it was a year ago. Full recovery of the lost listening is nowhere in sight despite a few changes in the margins.