Jeff Boudreau provided this link to an article called “Your tax dollars turn on WGBH” by Jessica Heslam on the website of the Boston Herald. In it, Jessica writes that despite ‘GBH protestations that it gains but a pittance from federal largesse in the form of public funding, truth be told, some $80 million found [...]
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This post on the Radio Ink website highlights one of the big problems associated with the use of Arbitron by non-commercial as well as commercial radio stations — particularly among the consolidators (Clear Channel, Emmis, NPR): Here’s one quote from a GM “I could go on for days about how radio is getting screwed by [...]
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It wasn’t long ago that people left the “public service” — i.e., government jobs, teachers, public safety positions, and the like — because more money could be had in the private sector. Nowadays, those firemen and teachers are being excoriated because those same jobs are suddenly exalted positions held by malingering slackers, the root of [...]
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Greg Smith sent along this link to Mark Ramsey’s influential blog, wherein he makes a few observations about what Apple is up to with its iPhone: Back in December, Apple quietly submitted a patent application that altered the radio experience for its users and introduced three new elements to the iPhone: FM, AM, and Satellite [...]
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The lead in this post on boston.com says it all: Union busting at WGBH? How will that play during Pledge Week? Labor-management relations at the World’s Greatest Broadcast House are sinking quicker than PBS ratings. At the end of October, management declined to extend its contract with the 280 members of the Communications Workers of [...]
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Yesterday a correspondent sent this along via the message box in the left column: Re: a recent op-ed in the Washington Post by the CEO of New York Public Radio, ending with what is obviously a cut-and-paste from the “170 Million for public media” people. “At its core, public broadcasting belongs to the American people; [...]
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In Massachusetts, the site for Jobs with Justice and one of our sister Facebook sites, Supporters of Folk and Blues on WGBH (here), is passing the word about extraordinary demands management is making of workers — after giving themselves bonuses: Workers at WGBH, our local public television and radio stations, are fighting for the basic [...]
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Todd Urick, writing on the site Common Frequency (link on right), shared some words of wisdom in the item “Push to Grow the Audience.” It details his take on what we’ve called the manifest-destiny model in public radio nowadays: Station Resource Group in coordination with CPB recently released its final report in their “Grow the [...]
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Here at the beginning of a new year it’s a bit of a tradition for both individuals and groups to look back on the past year and look forward to the year ahead. Here at Keeping the Public in Public Radio, the contributors and editors don’t want to be left out, so we’re going to [...]
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Boston’s Jeff Boudreau clued us to this post on Boston.com, website for the Boston Globe. In it, writer Johnny Diaz reports on a battle between the two NPR news radio stations, WBUR and WGBH, for supremacy. WBUR has embarked on an “aggressive advertising campaign, which includes TV ads and billboards along Interstate 93 and the [...]
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