Trina Cutter has outlined an agile business model for PBS stations that needs to be seriously embraced by stations facing budget shortfalls, increased expectations and younger workers with different workplace expectations. Even stations such as ours (Mountain Lake PBS) that still operate with full-time staffers can adopt a “gig economy” mindset. (This article is abridged [...]
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I usually try to shorten reposted blogs, but this Gwen Ifill/Jay Rosen dialogue has really caught my interest. I’m convinced that public media needs to be looking at itself HARDER and with more real concern than we are. Because the tidal wave is about to wash over us… (for more background on the Ifill/Rosen story [...]
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Washington Post Critic takes on PBS for replacing Moyers with Need to Know: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/10/AR2010051005113.html I’m not sure it is really deserved. Watch here and decide for yourself: http://video.mountainlake.org/program/1458405365/ via video.mountainlake.org
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In 4th quarter 2009, the time spent per week with online videos, social networks, blogs, and mobile videos combined was barely 3% as much time as was spent watching television on a home TV set. via baselineintel.com
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Thanks @AmyWoo and the Twitter Chat group #pubmedia for the tipoff to go read this statement. About Mission Guided by your aspirations, WSKG serves to inspire with the highest quality educational programming, explore the arts, culture and heritage of the region and beyond, engage in thoughtful consideration of news and issues of importance, and entertain [...]
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This new (anonymous) voice in the ether is offering up some radical, and, it seems, well motivated ideas about how to change up the public television system. Certainly worth wrestling with or embracing depending on your point of view… Efficiency Idea 1 In our quest to identify ways that PBS can cut costs, we will [...]
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