Tag: Rural broadcasting
Obama requests level CPB funding but would slash rural grants, consolidate Ready to Learn
President Obama has maintained level CPB funding in his fiscal 2015 federal budget request, but recommends eliminating the Rural Digital program and ...$2.5 million in grants will help rural stations complete DTV transition
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced six grants totaling more than $2.5 million Wednesday as part of its Public Television Digital Transition ...Redefining public media for the future
Public media is made up of hundreds of storefronts in communities large and small, each of which has a unique window into ...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 ...USDA grants back equipment upgrades at 10 rural pubTV stations
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $3.2 million in grants to 10 pubTV operators serving rural areas, assisting with equipment upgrades that ...An oasis for the ears in Trans-Pecos
Five ways Marfa Public Radio is different from your nearest NPR-member station: 1. The drivetime host reports on rush-hour traffic of five vehicles, ...On the road with a circuit-riding Native American radio engineer
Lakota radio engineer Alex Lookingelk rides the highways of Wyoming, Montana and North and South Dakota, covering as many as 5,000 miles ...Rural translators threatened with loss of their frequencies
Translators — the lonely relay-runners of broadcasting — are a rural institution under siege. While pubcasters use hundreds of them to reach ...‘Frontline’s first happy ending, ever’
At first glance, the girding storyline is whether Darrel and Juanita Buschkoetter, a farming couple raising three young daughters in Lawrence, Neb., ...Coming of public radio to rural areas can be rough on both listeners and broadcasters
With about 90 percent of the population covered by its signals, public radio has reached all the ”easy” regions and is now ...
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