“Throughout the merger process, we have been honored by the support of our communities in creating a joint organization that can dramatically increase the level of public media service to South Florida,” said WPBT2 President/CEO Dolores Sukhdeo, who will serve as CEO of South Florida PBS. “As the largest public media company in South Florida, we will be using all media platforms to achieve...
Read More...Public Radio Station WNTI/Hackettstown, NJ is Purchased by Philadelphia Public Radio Station WXPN
Centenary College of Hackettstown, New Jersey and Philadelphia public radio station WXPN 88.5, owned by the University of Pennsylvania, jointly announced a sales agreement and transfer of ownership for the broadcasting license of WNTI 91.9 FM, the public radio station owned by Centenary College, to WXPN. WXPN's award-winning music programming will be broadcast on WNTI starting at noon ET on Thursday, October 15, 2015....
Read More...NHPR Finances 20,000 Square Foot Space with $6 Million Loan
With 39 fulltime employees and signals reaching 90% of the state’s population with news and information, the only thing small about New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) was their building. Cramped cubicles, mazes of extension cords and a makeshift recording studio were part and parcel of day-to-day operations at NHPR. This behind the scenes view was invisible to the 150,000 weekly listeners who rely on...
Read More...Channel X Launches New Feature to Spur Video Collaboration in Public Media
Boulder, CO (September 29, 2015) – Channel X debuts a game-changing new technology feature today to drive more video sharing across public media. The feature, called Media Asset Collections, allows stations and producers to license packages of single videos and related media assets, such as background video, photos, scripts and audio files. ...
Read More...VuHaus Launches Today – Come in. See the Music.
"You really just need to browse the VuHaus site and see the quality of the videos for yourself to understand why so many people have been waiting with anticipation for this launch,” comments Erik Langner, President of VuHaus and Managing Director of Public Media Company (PMC). “For more than a year, PMC has been working with the best music stations in the country to...
Read More...Alison Scholly Joins Public Media Company as Channel X Executive Director
Boulder, CO (April 1) – Public Media Company (PMC) is proud to announce that Alison Scholly will be Executive Director of Channel X. As former COO of Chicago Public Media, WBEZ in Chicago, and digital media executive for the Chicago Tribune, Scholly joins PMC as a renowned public media leader with a passion for innovative growth and a track record of success. “We are...
Read More...VuHaus Unveiled as Brand Name for Public Media’s New Music Discovery Video Platform – Mark Abuzzahab Joins VuHaus as Program Director
Boulder, CO (March 5, 2015) – “VuHaus” is unveiled as the brand name for a new, non-profit video collaboration of public radio’s leading music discovery stations. Known by the code name “Music X” since it was announced in May 2014, VuHaus (“view house”) is a collaboration of founding stations WFUV/New York, KCRW/Los Angeles, WXPN/Philadelphia, KUTX/Austin, and KTBG/Kansas City. The stations have joined together to...
Read More...To Participate or Not: The Spectrum Auction
Even before the FCC raised $45 billion in the recent wireless Spectrum Auction, Public Broadcasting was in agreement – the upcoming television FCC Spectrum Auction will change the world of Public Television as we know it. Public Media Company (PMC) sees the Auction as, potentially, the most significant opportunity to positively transform the public television system since its inception. We also recognize that, if...
Read More...Music X Project to be Unveiled at SXSW 2015
The Music X Project will be officially named and launched at SXSW 2015 in a panel session called, “MTV for 2015: A New Music Video Channel by PubRadio.” This streaming platform will feature unique music videos of live performances from stations across the country. While other noncommercial stations will join the collaboration, the project is currently being led by 5 founding stations (KCRW/LA, WXPN/Philly,...
Read More...Presenting Public Media Database Plans at Public Radio Super-Regional Meeting
At the upcoming 2014 Public Radio Super-Regional Meeting, PMC’s Managing Director Dennis Hamilton is a panel member for “The Intersection of Data and Decision-making”. This session will cover the importance of Big Data for public media and the development of the new Public Media Database (PMD). With initial strategic input from eight of the nation’s leading public broadcasters, the comprehensive Database is designed to...
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