System/Policy
Former licensee of Philadelphia’s WYBE announces first round of grant recipients
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The foundation is giving $5.3 million to 11 local nonprofits, including public station WHYY.
System/Policy
PBS39 adds programming with donation of WYBE license
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The stations will share PBS39’s spectrum starting Jan. 5 until the FCC approves the license transfer.
spectrum auction
Philadelphia TV station will become grantmaker with spectrum auction winnings
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The foundation formed from WYBE plans to share its proceeds with other Philadelphia-area nonprofits.
People
Daniel del Solar, 71, believer in progressive public media
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Daniel del Solar, 71, a Chilean-American media activist, poet and photographer who headed training for CPB in its early days and later managed countercultural stations in San Francisco and Philadelphia, died Jan. 13 in Oakland, Calif. He had prostate cancer. Del Solar served as director of training and development at CPB in the late 1970s, during a period of active recruitment and training of ethnic-minority professionals. He later became g.m. of San Francisco’s KALW-FM from 1985 to 1992 and of Philadelphia’s WYBE-TV from 1992 to 1995.