Public Media Company’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Erin Moran has been named CEO of Public Media Company. Erin joined the nonprofit strategic consulting firm in 2002 as the principal advisor on financial matters. She had served as its CFO for 17 years and was named President in October 2019. “Public Media Company’s services are in demand during this crucial time...
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Our latest newsletter is out: super-helpful info on collaborations, our new Financial Analysis Reports, revenue trends in public media, and leveraging bond financing…read all about it at https://bit.ly/2HMwk99...
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Public radio stations are continuing their long trend of revenue growth and public television stations are also growing again after a period of contraction brought on by the Great Recession. However, success is not equally distributed. On average, larger public radio and television stations are growing at much higher rates than their small station counterparts. These are the key takeaways from the latest Annual...
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Public Media Company congratulates Vermont PBS and Vermont Public Radio on the decision to join forces and strengthen service for the people of Vermont. It has been a pleasure working with such dedicated and insightful leaders over the past several months. FROM CURRENT: The boards of Vermont PBS and Vermont Public Radio unanimously voted Wednesday to merge their organizations into one public media station....
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PMC’s last blog post focused on public media revenue trends during the Great Recession (December 2007 to June 2009) to help reveal insights that may be relevant to the current COVID-19 crisis. In this post, we explore the relative successes of public stations since the last recession to discover what further lessons can be learned. Our analysis has found that public radio has flourished...
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Boulder, CO. (June 30, 2020) — Public Media Company is pleased to announce the Public Media Bond Program for public media organizations to leverage their assets for capital projects. The new national bond program provides public broadcasting entities access to taxable and tax-exempt bonds to finance their capital improvement projects through the Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority (CECFA). Public Media Company pioneered the...
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FROM Virginia M. Dambach, Executive Director, The University Station Alliance: There are many ways of providing public media services – and sometimes those services allow ample time for planning but other times they require bold action. In the first of a series, this article explores how WGLT Bloomington-Normal, Illinois came to manage WCBU in Peoria, which is about 40 miles away on Interstate 74....
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Congrats to KQED and NPR in securing a major gift from Eric and Wendy Schmidt to support investigative journalism in both California and the Midwest. Public Media Company worked with KQED, NPR and other leading California public radio stations to create and document a plan to expand investigative journalism in the state. This led to a momentous show of philanthropic support for the leadership...
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The Covid-19 crisis is unprecedented in its impact on society across the world and has forced organizations to take immediate steps to protect the health of their employees as well as the health of their organizations. It’s incredibly challenging to take immediate mitigating action while also planning for future challenges but it’s an unfortunate reality that all public media organizations need to face. This...
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The impact of Covid-19 is a very different financial shock than public media has seen before but it’s not the first fiscal challenge that the industry has faced. The Great Recession (December 2007 to June 2009) also posed a huge test for public radio and television stations throughout the country and so we thought it would be a good idea to take a look...
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