System/Policy
Merged stations VPR and Vermont PBS to be named Vermont Public
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The stations announced merger plans last summer.
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The stations announced merger plans last summer.
Board member Ruby Calvert said setting aside the initiative for another year is “the right thing to do.”
“Television and radio should be getting together. Joint licensees have advantages that neither one of us have individually.”
A series of case studies on mergers of public media and digital news outlets will look at “what has worked and where expectations have fallen short.”
WSIU and Network Knowledge have been discussing a partnership for nearly three years, according to WSIU Executive Director Greg Petrowich.
The deal was a long time coming, but when it finally arrived, it still took the staff of KPLU by surprise.
A proposed merger of two Florida public TV stations would serve a combined market area roughly equivalent to the country’s seventh-largest Nielsen market.
The arrangement grew out of a neighborly collaborative relationship between the stations as well as a desire to save personnel costs.
Public media is made up of hundreds of storefronts in communities large and small, each of which has a unique window into America, its people and their stories. These storefronts — local public TV and radio stations — have built public media’s greatest asset: our unique relationships with listeners and viewers, local businesses and governments, and anchor institutions in the arts, philanthropy, education and social welfare. Yet at Public Radio Capital we increasingly hear from public media executives facing competitive and financial challenges that threaten their stations’ economic foundations and thus their effectiveness. Let’s face it: The public media business model isn’t changing. It has already changed in dramatic ways.