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WDET Documents Detroit with ‘COVID Diaries: Stories of Resilience’
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wayne State University’s WDET-FM is partnering with Documenting Detroit and local media makers to produce a multimedia series called “COVID Diaries: Stories of Resilience.” which will illustrate life and resilience during the outbreak in Southeast Michigan. As an expansion of WDET’s StoryMakers initiative, WDET will support six independent media…
Read MoreMichigan Radio’s Stateside debuts in U.P. on WNMU, WGGL
Michigan Radio’s daily public radio talk program, Stateside, hosted by April Baer, can now be heard across the Upper Peninsula on WNMU-FM (Marquette), and WGGL-FM (Houghton). The addition of these two public radio stations makes Stateside available to the majority of listeners in the Upper Peninsula. With conversations about what matters in Michigan, Stateside covers…
Read MoreCPB Gets $75 Million in Emergency Funds
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets $75 million in emergency funds in the $2 trillion coronavirus bill that passed the Senate late Wednesday night but still needs to be approved by the House and signed by the president. The money is to keep up facilities of noncommercial TV and radio stations and to help stations,…
Read MoreMichigan Public TV Stations Offer Help to Kids and Families
Michigan Association of Public Broadcasters (MAPB) television stations are offering up their 24-hour PBS KIDS channels and have special tips for parents about how to keep children learning while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fun and educational K-12 content is offered on-air and on-line for through local Public Television stations. Programs are…
Read MoreMAPB Board of Directors Elects Officers, Michigan Radio’s Steve Schram as President
The Michigan Association of Public Broadcasters (MAPB) elected its 2020-2021 Officers of the Board of Directors during a board meeting held on Tuesday, March 3 in conjunction with the Great Lakes Media Show at the Lansing Center. Officers elected to the 2020-2021 MAPB Board of Directors: President: Steve Schram, Michigan Public Radio Vice President: Tom…
Read MoreWKAR’s Elkins Speaks on NextGen TV at APTS Public Media Summit
WKAR Public Media (East Lansing) Director of Broadcasting and General Manager Susi Elkins spoke this past Tuesday (2/25) at the 2020 APTS Public Media Summit in Washington, D.C. during a session titled “Collaboration with National Partners on Spectrum Opportunities.” WKAR is one of the public stations that is currently experimenting with NextGen TV technology and…
Read MoreMichigan Radio’s Bryce Huffman Explores Black History in America with Live Dates Around State
Michigan Radio West Michigan Reporter and Same Same Different podcast host/creator Bryce Huffman is hosting three live events around the state that will explore the importance of black history in America — how it’s being taught and its impact on black identity. At each event Bryce and his panel will be discussing these and other…
Read MoreIPR News launches new series “Our Global Neighborhood”
Interlochen Public Radio has announced a new eight-week series where the station sits down with residents who moved to northern Michigan from across the globe. Our Global Neighborhood takes news consumers into the lives of their neighbors who decided to reside in our part of the world after experiencing a much different life in another…
Read MoreNorthern Radio Provides Interlochen Public Radio with Temporary Signal
Interlochen Public Radio (IPR) announced February 1 that listeners can now tune in to its “Classical IPR” on Northern Radio’s WSRJ-FM (Honor/Traverse City). WSRJ had been silent. IPR’s Classical music service in the Traverse City area has been hampered since mid-December, when its WIAA-FM experienced an antenna issue. Complicating repairs were harsh winter conditions which…
Read MoreWMU Trustees’ Vote Brings WMUK Closer To Buying A Second Signal
Western Michigan University’s WMUK-FM (Kalamazoo) has won approval by the University’s Board of Trustees to acquire WKDS-FM from the Kalamazoo Public Schools (KPS). The Trustees approved a $191,000 plan, which includes a cash payment to the KPS as well as leasing fees, a studio refit at the school district and underwriting trade for KPS. WMUK…
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