People
Schneider to leave WETA executive post, Bruns returning as interim
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As WETA COO for four years, Schneider managed the station’s ownership takeover of “PBS NewsHour.”
Spectrum Auction
Spectrum repack expenses top $1.75 billion fund
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The $2.1 billion total includes $336.6 million requested by 148 public broadcasters.
Programs/Content
‘Washington Week’ picks Ifill successor
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With “Washington Post” reporter Robert Costa on board, WETA continues its search for a “PBS NewsHour” co-host.
Programs/Content
Hosts familiar to public media filling ‘PBS NewsHour’ co-anchor slots
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NPR’s Steve Inskeep joins Judy Woodruff on tonight’s broadcast.
Quick Takes
WETA finds Passport members skew younger
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Passport donors who made their first gift to the station online were 47 years old on average.
Development
Pubcasters refine tactics for acquiring donors through canvassing
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Data collection and research have become more sophisticated over the past five years.
television
Study to give public TV first granular look at local audiences
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TRAC Media Services is starting a deep dive into demographics, with findings that counter conventional wisdom.
Programs/Content
NEH awards $2 million to pubmedia projects
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Seven public media projects got a boost July 21 with the announcement of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which included almost $2 million for pubcasters. The largest grants, each for $600,000, will support documentaries from WGBH in Boston and Firelight Media in New York. WGBH will use the grant for a two-hour American Experience episode, “Into the Amazon: The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition.” The documentary, produced by American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels, covers a 1913 expedition to an unmapped territory of the Amazon led by Theodore Roosevelt and Brazilian colonel Candido Rondon. Firelight Media, whose documentaries frequently air on PBS, will use the grant to fund Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Firelight founder and filmmaker Stanley Nelson is leading the project to produce the two-hour documentary.
Jim Lehrer
WETA to create subsidiary for transfer of PBS NewsHour ownership
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WETA’s board of trustees unanimously authorized the transfer, which does not involve any cash, at a June 17 meeting in Arlington, Va.