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Programs/Content

Station town halls connect lawmakers and constituents in tense times

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | September 22, 2017

The public broadcasters have found various ways to handle protesters, politicians and outsized community interest.

System/Policy

After release of results, stations announce plans for FCC auction largesse

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor and Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | April 13, 2017

The big sums will help to expand services, pay off debts and enable technical upgrades.

System/Policy

Pennsylvania public TV station takes over commercial video firm

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | May 25, 2016

“This is one way for public media to develop alternative revenue streams,” WLVT CEO Tim Fallon said.

State funding

Pennsylvania pubTV could see funding restored six years after being zeroed out

By Ben Mook, Former Reporter | April 3, 2015

For the first time since state funding was cut in 2009, Pennsylvania’s eight public television stations could see funding restored as Gov. Tom Wolf included $4 million in his proposed budget.

Firelight Media

PBS discount plan a ‘no-brainer’ for WLVT

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | July 9, 2012

The public TV station serving eastern Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley recently decided that the best way to survive as an independent station was to step back from its status as the primary station serving its market. For WLVT in Bethlehem, a small city less than 70 miles north of Philadelphia, becoming a PDP station “was a natural,” said Tim Fallon, acting c.e.o. “It just doesn’t make sense that two stations, just two channels away from each other, have exactly the same programming.”

WLVT, which is locally branded as PBS39, was hard-hit by budget cuts in 2009 when the state sliced its $1 million in annual support to $100,000. Nearly half of its staff was laid off. When longtime C.E.O. Patricia Simon stepped away in March, the board appointed Fallon, a businessman and longtime station board member and volunteer. After taking over at WLVT, Fallon came to an “alignment of vision” with WHYY President Bill Marrazzo on how the stations could complement each other.

Development

With renewal aid, HQ cost is practically a steel

By | March 30, 2009

Thanks to the June arrival of the Sands Casino Resort in the industrial Lehigh Valley in east central Pennsylvania, the region can expect the opening of a shiny new public TV station as well.

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