System/Policy
Stations step up education efforts around COVID vaccine with help from CPB grants
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Funds are enabling stations in current and potential COVID-19 hotspots to design projects that address their communities’ specific needs.
System/Policy
CPB gives $275,000 to 14 stations for COVID PSAs, community outreach
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Each station will receive up to $20,000.
Programs/Content
PBS announces initiatives to increase programming diversity
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During the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, PBS announced funding for Firelight Media, updates to its producer requirements and a new SVP for DEI.
System/Policy
President Biden nominates three directors for CPB board
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If confirmed, the nominees would fill three of four vacant board of director seats.
System/Policy
House Appropriations Committee recommends $565M for CPB
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The measure approved for consideration by the full House proposes an increase of nearly 27% from CPB’s current funding levels and recommends $20 million for a public safety program funded through FEMA.
System/Policy
CPB board boosts CSG funds by delaying Healthy Network Initiative for second year
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Board member Ruby Calvert said setting aside the initiative for another year is “the right thing to do.”
System/Policy
CPB analysis finds steep declines in station underwriting, foundation funding
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While income from individual giving grew 5% last fiscal year, stations were hit by losses in all other revenue categories.
System/Policy
President Biden’s proposed budget includes $475M for CPB
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APTS President Pat Butler called the proposal “a good first step.”
Programs/Content
The missing middle: Reimagining a future for tweens, teens and public media
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Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center report on how public media can create media that’s relevant to the lives of the teens and tweens who make up Gen Z.
CPB
CPB has ‘no immediate plans’ to recruit new ombudsman
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CPB has had an ombudsman — and sometimes two — since 2005.
System/Policy
CPB requests $300M in federal support for pubmedia infrastructure
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The funding pool would be similar to the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, which was eliminated in 2011.
System/Policy
Public Media for All analysis highlights persistent gaps in pubmedia diversity
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Comparing recently released CPB data to U.S. Census demographics shows that public media is only keeping pace with or lagging behind national trends.
System/Policy
GM who broke ceilings and took heat urges public radio to confront ‘rapidly changing environment’
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“The ways we embrace change and respond to the unknown will define us,” writes Patricia “Patty” Cahill, former CPB director and retired GM of KCUR.
System/Policy
CPB to receive $175M in additional emergency funding
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CPB estimates that total losses to the public media system due to the pandemic could approach $400 million.
System/Policy
CPB increases annual funding to public TV’s multicultural alliance
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Each of the nonprofits that fund and support public TV content by and for diverse communities will receive an additional $500,000.
System/Policy
CPB data shows ‘incremental growth’ in racial diversity across stations
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The data also reveals that men and women held equal shares of jobs in the system in 2020.
System/Policy
CPB receives FY23 raise, denied emergency relief
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The corporation, which had sought $50 million in increased appropriations, got a $10 million bump.
System/Policy
Proposed funding in Senate leaves out $50M bump for CPB
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Increased funding could support remote-learning services amid the pandemic, argued APTS CEO Pat Butler.
System/Policy
The ‘Local that Works’ — and what’s still needed
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“The presence of frontline reporters throughout the country provides a different sort of opportunity for public media journalism: to surprise, to uncover, to find not just the local angle but the issues that are most engaging local citizens and might be of broader interest as well.”
System/Policy
Ohio stations move forward with news collaborative
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A CPB grant will help the three stations develop a business and sustainability plan.