Tag: Underwriting
NPR Underwriting Credit Guidelines, 2012
Retrieved from NPR.org Nov. 25, 2012 Underwriting credits acknowledge organizations which fund public radio programming. Federal law mandates this identification and further allows ...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 ...Insistent sponsors put newsrooms on alert
Underwriters of public radio programs increasingly want to link their names more closely to particular stories and reporting projects, according to station ...Underwriting drop leaves NPR with $2.6M shortfall
Facing an operating deficit of $2.6 million this fiscal year due to a shortfall in corporate sponsorship income, NPR is stepping up ...No-chat zone ’twixt funders and reporters?
Radio news veteran Jim Asendio resigned as news director of Washington’s WAMU-FM last week after an internal dispute over a private fundraising ...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 ...If you pay commissions on underwriting sales, make them incentives for team behavior
... Management can support responsible behavior, however, by designing compensation systems that reward it. These techniques include offering a livable base salary ...WBUR finds ROI for stores in underwriting
Looking to expand the pool of companies that place underwriting spots on public radio stations, Boston’s WBUR unveiled results from its first-ever ...Flow plan would push spots deeper into PBS hours
The traditional pledge-drive mantra brags about a piece of public television’s ancestral DNA: “PBS — your home for quality, uninterrupted programming.” So the ...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’ ...Masterpiece to be umbrella for 3 strands
Suspecting that Masterpiece Theatre is showing its age after 36 seasons — an eon in TV years — the program’s producers at Boston’s WGBH ...NPR Underwriting Guidelines, as of 2000
Undated document supplied by NPR, January 2000. No Commercial Obligations or Influence NPR is an independent, nonprofit organization that carries no on-air advertising. One ...FCC to WTTW: too much of that funky stuff
WTTW and PBS say they’re baffled by the FCC’s proposal to fine the Chicago station $5,000 for airing four underwriting spots, including ...FCC notice to WTTW of fines for underwriting violations, 1997
In 1997, the FCC fined Chicago public TV station WTTW for violating commission standards for underwriting credits (Current coverage). More than two years ...‘The question of length is really settled’
A movement among big-market stations to accept 30-second underwriting spots is turning up the heat on PBS to resolve longstanding discrepancies between ...
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