Category: News

Since our inception 20 years ago, Public Media Company continues to embrace our mission of helping stations provide new, innovative service models to increase their sustainability. We advocated for multiple formats in our “More Channels, More Service” campaign and our Non-Commercial Filing Window project in 2007; Pioneered tax-exempt financing as a tool for public broadcasters; Co-launched collaborative service models such as VuHaus;  Combined technical...

CREATING BUSINESS MODELS FOR JOURNALISM COLLABORATIONS  Public Media Company has always lived by our mission to foster sustainable local independent media growth, but how we achieve that has evolved as public media has changed to meet the needs of local communities. More recently, that has included supporting the development and ongoing financial sustainability of regional journalism collaborations across the county. In our early years,...

Client Spotlight Colorado Public Radio and Public Media Company: 20 years of Partnership Colorado Public Radio (CPR) was Public Media Company’s first client and we have been partners ever since. As CPR’s COO, Jenny Gentry, says, “When I look back on the evolution and growth of CPR over the past 20 years, Public Media Company has been a strong partner through every step. PMC’s services...

Public Media Company recently worked with the leadership of WYPR, the NPR news and information station in Baltimore, Maryland to secure a new home for  WTMD, the Baltimore music discovery station.  In 2020, the license holder of WTMD, Townson University,  decided to put the station up for sale and Public Media Company stepped in to find WTMD a new home in public media. The...

Current.org recently highlighted a series of journalism collaborations that have sprung up across the country in recent years. These journalism collaborations, which were launched in partnership with NPR,  are located in Texas (the Texas Newsroom), California (the California Newsroom) and most recently the Gulf States (the Gulf States Newsroom). Read the full article here. Public Media Company has played a crucial role as a...

STRATEGY SERIES WEBINAR: Does your community know that you exist? Grow station audience and revenue via increased awareness  Public media stations can increase revenue and impact with greater reach in their community. It starts with measuring how well the community knows your station (you’ll be surprised) and conducting a marketing campaign to “introduce” your station to new audience members. Public Media Company Managing Director Alison...