Tag: LocusPoint Networks
Channel-share agreements bring Connecticut station $32.6M in spectrum auction
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network is holding on to its stations in Bridgeport and Hartford-New Haven.Conn. network strikes deal with LocusPoint on proceeds from spectrum auction
The Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network plans to relinquish the spectrum assigned to WEDW-TV in Bridgeport, one of four stations in its statewide ...University licensee trims Arizona Public Media by $2M over five years
Arizona Public Media will lose $2 million in support from its university licensee over the next five years starting July 1. Over that ...NPR cancels ‘Tell Me More’, cuts 28 staff positions
A mandate for a balanced budget and a drive to reduce its production commitments spurred NPR to cancel Tell Me More, one of the ...Obama would maintain CPB funding, eliminate rural digital grants in 2014 budget proposal
President Obama released his fiscal 2014 federal budget proposal April 10, and recommended $445 million in two-year advance funding for CPB. This ...Sponsor churn, ebb in digital cut into NPR’s bottom line
With one of its biggest corporate sponsors pulling back from a multiyear underwriting commitment, NPR has an uphill climb to rebuild its ...NPR budget for 2013 projects $5 million deficit
The 2013 budget approved by the NPR Board Sept. 14 projects a $5.1 million operating deficit, with expenses adding up to $185.5 ...Pacifica orders austerity cuts after grim auditors’ report
Responding to a June 15 auditors’ report expressing “substantial doubt” that the Pacifica Foundation has the financial wherewithal “to continue as a ...Ten stations below CPB grants criteria
At least 10 public television stations could be at risk of losing vital CPB community service grants this fiscal year and next ...Capacity: Radio’s local newsrooms weigh in
As the chorus calling on public media to add more local journalists grows, let’s be mindful of the specific ways adding ...Urgency: Recession is just the latest thing to go worse for public television
Between the years 1995 and 2010, public television stations’ cash revenues rose, plateaued and then crashed with the 2008 recession, falling altogether ...State aid down $85 million in four years
In four years that include the deepening recession, fiscal 2008 through 2012, public broadcasting stations in 24 states have lost a total ...Recession 101 is the next course for 22 pubradio journalists
A new journalism training program offered by NPR News and funded by CPB will train 22 public radio reporters from 19 states ...Planet Money grew ‘organically’ from ‘A Giant Pool of Money’
In this Q&A, Karen Everhart talks with This American Life producer Alex Blumberg and NPR reporter Adam Davidson.Your local network, the Tribe of ‘A Giant Pool’
We can see much of a new value proposition for public media in a new pattern that we can all copy and ...
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