Tag: Recession
PTFP’s last round of grants, fiscal year 2010
PTFP’s last annual grant round came toward the end of fiscal year 2010, and the agency later began soliciting applications for FY ...Salt Lake news station back in jeopardy
KCPW in Salt Lake City is less than two weeks from a loan default that could put it off the air. The new ...Into the gig economy
The author is president of Western Reserve Public Media (WNEO/ WEAO), which serves Akron, Youngstown and Kent in northeast Ohio. Right after ...Panel to weigh state spinoff of NJN
The governor says the state can’t afford New Jersey Network anymore. NJN’s leaders say it would do better as a nonprofit anyway. ...PBS won’t raise dues income again next year; Kerger warns it may lose capabilities and ...
Paula Kerger wants public TV stations to know that the combination of flat station dues, dwindling resources and balanced budgets may be ...Congress allots $25 million ‘stabilization’ aid to stations
The number was a compromise between the House’s $40 million figure and the Senate’s $10 million.Florida dean pushes to cut expenses, gets pushback about blurred roles
Dean Wright has asked his outside advisors to cut costs by consolidating management of its two commercial and three public stations—creating a ...Fiscal year-end layoffs include 10% of PBS staff
Swamped by the recession tsunami as they prepared for the new fiscal year, public broadcasters at PBS headquarters; WQLN in Erie, Pa.; ...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.Burns pipeline to pump despite GM withdrawal
Ken Burns will proceed with his films as planned despite General Motors’ withdrawal as a major sponsor, according to Washington’s WETA, Burns’ ...Emergency infusion: Rx for fiscal hemorrhage
Public television is asking Congress for a $211 million supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2010 on top of the usual ...Northern Calif. combo lays off 30, including much of San Jose staff
Northern California Public Broadcasting, licensee of KQED-TV/FM and KTEH-TV in San Jose, laid off 30 employees and cut its budget 13 percent ...CPB: System revenue may drop $418 million in fiscal 2009
Public radio and TV station revenues may decline $418 million or 14.6 percent this fiscal year, CPB executives estimated in ...Options run out in Ohio college town as licensee guts its pubradio budget
In a southwestern Ohio college town, the public radio news station with seven full-time employees will become an unstaffed repeater for Cincinnati ...
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