Episode 39 - They're Shutting Down Big Bird and Elmo #publicmedia #shocking #news

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Jesse Jackson leading kids in a call-and-response "I Am Somebody" on Sesame Street:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZV7ES4VE8

gonna teach this tomorrow

#JesseJackson #PublicMedia #SesameStreet

WTF is up with KVIE? Alarming bit about KVIE trying to go after CapRadio's license:

"Wiesenfeld also floated escalating the dispute by drawing the attention of NPR and the now-defunct Corporation for Public Broadcasting, suggesting in an email that Sacramento State’s FCC licenses could be challenged if those organizations believed the university had engaged in “yellow journalism” that harmed the station and its volunteers."

What the hell? Is our public TV station just trump style ratfucking our public radio station now? Just talking to relatives tonight about stopping our $ support for KVIE. #Sacramento #PublicMedia

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article314515622.html

Back in late 2023, I said of TVNZ

"If left to limp along as a for-profit, the few really useful things it still owns (free-to-air broadcast infrastructure, studios, etc) are at risk of neglect and asset stripping."

https://disintermedia.net.nz/reimagining-public-media-in-aotearoa/

What I didn't know at the time was that the broadcast infrastructure is actually owned by a different SOE, Kordia.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sponsored-stories/things-you-didnt-know-about-kordia/AP7VMIET7SHBFXB5GDVJWA66XI/

But the cancellation of Fair Go and other flagship TVNZ shows was an example of what I meant.

#PublicMedia #TVNZ

"When government funding disappeared from public media last year, experts predicted dire consequences for scores of stations. According to one estimate, 78 public radio stations and 37 TV stations were at risk of going dark as a result of the cuts. President Trump recently said NPR and PBS had “closed up.”

But six months after the funding cuts, few public TV or radio stations have closed their doors. Many have scraped together a patchwork of funding from concerned donors, philanthropies or government grants. Others, facing insurmountable budget issues, have resorted to mergers with bigger stations to stay online. NPR and PBS have not gone anywhere.

In fact, the country’s public media system — more than 1,000 radio and TV stations, serving millions of people — remains largely intact, despite the disappearance of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

But there is not a lot of celebrating among public media executives and supporters. Much of the angst about the long-term future remains. They point out that much of the money making up for the loss in federal funding has come from one-off donations and grants — short-term fixes — that may have managed only to defer the true financial pain.

“We’re not out of the woods at all,” said Tim Isgitt, chief executive of Public Media Company, a nonprofit that has stepped in to provide $30 million in emergency funding to rescue public TV and radio stations."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/media/npr-pbs-stations-funding.html

#USA #Trump #NPR #PBS #PublicMedia #Radio #TV #PublicBroadcasting

Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus

Der SWR, Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk, hat untersucht, ob Mastodon für Journalisten eine Alternative zu den faschistisch gesteuerten Netzen X u.s.w sein kann.

Die Ergebnisse mit vielen Chancen, Herausforderungen und konkreten Lösungsansätzen gibt es jetzt als Report zum Download.

Journalismus into the Fediverse!
@OeRR_bewegen

https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html?at_medium=social&at_campaign=info%40swr.de&at_source=mastodon

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Journalist #Nachrichten #socialmedia #SozialeNetzwerke #ÖRR #PublicMedia