How a Public Media Station Can Work Remotely: Advice From a Company That Does It All the Time

With the spread of COVID-19, many public media outlets are quickly becoming “distributed” organizations – with employees working remotely from home or other places outside of the office. This is nothing new to us: Public Media Company has been working in this manner throughout our 19 year history. Since we work with local media around the country, we don’t locate everyone in a single...

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Public Media Company Announces Carlos Barrionuevo as Director

Public Media Company is expanding its team with the hiring of Carlos Barrionuevo as a director focused on local media growth strategies.Carlos has held numerous leadership roles over his 25-year career in media developing new business ideas, forging partnerships, leading acquisitions, and securing revenue-generating opportunities. As Director of Business Development at NPR, he directed the formation of National Public Media and led the planning...

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Are Public Radio & TV Station Revenue Trends Really That Different?

Our October blog post explored how public radio revenue is now higher than public television revenue thanks to significant radio growth over the past decade. The post also highlighted great disparities between radio stations of different sizes – big growth for large stations and revenue declines for small stations. The variation by station size is also very evident in public television. Small TV stations...

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Public Media Company’s Webinar Series: Financial Oversight for General Managers

Public media leaders may not have a financial background, but they are charged with overseeing the health of a critical local media organization in flush times…and not so flush times. How do you make sure that your station is operating on strong financial footing regardless of the economic climate? Get an overview during our upcoming webinar on best practice financial management for station general...

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Public Media Company Names Erin Moran President

Public Media Company is pleased to announce Erin Moran as its next President. Erin Moran has a long history at Public Media Company, joining the nonprofit strategic advisory firm in 2002 as the principal advisor on financial matters. She has served as interim President since April 2019, when Public Media Company announced that co-Founder and CEO, Marc Hand, was leaving to run the Public...

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Public Media Company Celebrates 19 Years!

Public Media Company has a board of 9 inspired and devoted public media leaders, who meet twice a year in person to help chart our course in making public media more dynamic and sustainable. At our board meeting on May 5th, Public Media Company went back to its roots in Boulder, Colorado to celebrate our 19-year history and the contributions of Public Media Company...

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ATSC 3.0 One Year On: Are Broadcasters Ready?

FROM TV TECHNOLOGY: A year after the FCC gave U.S. broadcasters the green light to deploy ATSC 3.0, stations are ramping up their efforts to make the Next Gen TV standard a reality by 2020. Last month’s announcement of support from prominent station groups illustrated how far efforts have come in the past 12 months. At NAB Show New York, executives from Fox Television...

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Public Media Company, WGBH Business Unit to Launch Public Media Purchasing Service

CPB is backing a cooperative purchasing service for public broadcasters in an effort to reduce costs and eliminate duplicative procurement work among stations. Public Media Company and WGBH’s business services unit will run the service. CPB is providing $250,000 for the venture, which is a first in public media. Details of the initiative will be discussed at PBS TechCon in Las Vegas, said a...

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FCC Authorizes Next Generation TV Broadcast Transmission Standard

(Via FCC News)  The Federal Communications Commission today adopted new rules to let television broadcasters use the Next Generation broadcast television transmission standard, also called ATSC 3.0, on a voluntary, market-driven basis. The Next Generation TV standard will let broadcasters provide consumers with more vivid pictures and sound, including Ultra High Definition television and superior reception, mobile viewing capabilities, advanced emergency alerts, better accessibility...

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