Public Media Daily

Welcome to the weekend and Episode #32 of Public Media Daily, now in your podcast feed. Highlights from Thursday, July 5th include just two things...01) 91.5 KUSU-FM Logan introduces a new program on science and bringing scientists together to talk about science and life.02) Michigan Radio's 70th birthday!Please subscribe to this pod wherever you find it just by searching "Public Media Daily" and leave us a rating and a review as well. Your feedback is vital to this podcast and how it sound and how it works. You can go enjoy your weekend now.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

It's the 4th of July edition of Public Media Daily, Episode #31. Not much happened during the holiday but some highlights from Wednesday, the 4th of July, 2018 include...1) 101.9 WDET Detroit is trying to start an NPR-inspired tradition by reading the Preamble and the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution.2) 90.5 KUT Austin listeners get to decide which program will take over the Saturday 2:00 p.m. timeslot to replace Marketplace Weekend, which has ended production.3) WBAA West Lafayette's AM 920 translator on the FM dial (105.9 W290CM) has been having some problems since Tuesday.Please subscribe to our podcast wherever you get your shows and leave us a rating and a review. Your feedback is much appreciated and we hope you enjoyed the 4th of July, even if you're not from here.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.NPR's voices reading the Declaration of Independence: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/623836154/a-july-4-tradition-npr-reads-the-declaration-of-independenceWDET's voices reading the Preamble and the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution: https://wdet.org/posts/2017/07/04/85435-this-july-4th-know-your-bill-of-rights-a-wdet-primer/#.Wzy6wueLjpc.twitter

It took forever but its now Episode #30 of Public Media Daily in your podcast feed. Highlights from Tuesday, July 3rd include...01) 94.9 KUOW Seattle and NPR are working on donations made by listeners tuning in through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices.02) Two retirements... Radio Kansas' music director Mark Simmons and WKNO's chief engineer Russ Abernathy.03) Two tower maintenances... WGVK-TV 52 Kalamazoo and 90.7 WMFE Orlando. Both were brief.04) NPR will continue its 30-year tradition by reading the Declaration of Independence during Morning Edition later today. Happy 4th of July! Its the USA's 242nd birthday.Programming note: PBS' annual A Capitol Fourth special hosted by John Stamos is at 8:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. CT and then seen again at 9:30 p.m. ET / 8:30 p.m. CT on most PBS stations.Leave us a rating and a review as feedback is vital. Let us know how we're doing and what we can do to improve this podcast. Please subscribe to this pod wherever you listen to your programs for past episodes and future updates. Listen in including the new Google Podcasts as well as TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts and pretty much everywhere else.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

After a long period away, we're back! This is Episode #29 of Public Media Daily, now available on your podcast feed for the first time in weeks. Highlights from Friday, June 29th-Monday, July 2nd include...01) Texas Standard had Current's Dru Sefton on about the struggles PBS is having in Texas.02) KBYU is no longer a PBS affiliate. KUED is Utah's ONLY PBS affiliate now.03) 91.5 WUNC Chapel Hill adds The New Yorker Radio Hour and the How I Built This/Planet Money combo to its Sunday schedule.04) Nashville Public Radio adds 1A, another hour of Morning Edition and the BBC Newshour to its schedules.05) KTWU 11 Topeka decides to launch World on channel 11.2 to replace MHz Worldview.06) Capital Public Radio expands the Sunday overnight simulcast of the BBC World Service and moves Reveal on Sundays too.07) 90.7 WFAE Charlotte adds 1A and The Daily to its weekday schedule. Plus, the overnight BBC World Service simulcast got expanded too.08) Technical problems include 91.7 KOSU Stillwater - Oklahoma City getting hit by lightning in its antenna on Friday, two of WVTF Roanoke's Music stations suffering power outages and WVIA-TV 44 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton suffering quick problems on Monday afternoon.09) 103.3 KWBU-FM Waco turned 18 on July 1st. It signed on-the-air July 1st, 2000.10) Everything that you also missed since the last time we did the last episode in a brand new segment called "What You Missed."Please subscribe wherever you listen to your favorite shows and leave us a rating and a review as well. Also, let us know what we're doing great and what we can do to improve on.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

We go Episode #28 of Public Media Daily inserted into your podcast feed. Check it out as we have the latest public media news inserted into here. Highlights from Thursday, June 7th include...1) Bill Littlefield is retiring after 35 years in public radio and 25 years hosting NPR and 90.9 WBUR Boston's Only A Game.2) KLRU 18 Austin is scheduled to move into its new building in 2020 and will be shared with the Austin Community College District.3) All of Northwest Public Broadcasting (NWPB)'s radio stations are scheduled to go off-the-air for at least two hours Saturday for maintenance.4) Former NPR reporter and editor John McChesney, who co-created the national desk, has passed away Tuesday at 78 from complications of leukemia.5) KTWU 11 Topeka will add World to its subchannel lineup in July.6) Reading Rainbow is 35 years old. The legendary PBS Kids program made its debut on June 6th, 1983. It went on to run until 2006, a 23 year run.Subscribe to this podcast, wherever you can find this episode (and there are plenty of platforms to subscribe on) and leave us a rating and a review before you head off into the weekend. Note, we'll be back on Tuesday and not on Monday due to personal commitments.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.Reading Rainbow theme is courtesy of Reading Rainbow and WNED-TV 17 Buffalo with YouTube audio from user fraust076.

A very short episode of Public Media Daily for you today, Episode #27, for your Thursday morning.Highlights from Wednesday, June 6th include a new report from The Pew Research Center indicating the state of public media on various factors including investments into newsrooms, economics and audience figures. That report can be found on our twitter page @PubMediaFans with a link detailing more information. Also, 89.3 WFPL Louisville will launch a new podcast next week that's similar to a podcast that 90.1 KUER Salt Lake City is doing.This is probably the shortest episode we've every done but hopefully more news will come out for tomorrow's program. Subscribe wherever you can find this podcast or hear our host's voice. Also, leave us a rating and a review to help us grow and make this show better.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

We now have Episode #26 of Public Media Daily for you on your feeds. Highlights from Tuesday, June 5th include...1) After a 19 year run leading 89.3 KPCC Pasadena - Los Angeles, Bill Davis has decided to step down as President and CEO in December 2019. He has turned KPCC around into become the most-listened-to NPR News outlet in Southern California.2) WGVK-TV 52 Kalamazoo, WGVU Grand Rapids' satellite station, is doing some maintenance for an hour later this morning.Yep. The episode is that short. Find us wherever you get your shows and leave us a rating and a review. Also, subscribe to get more episodes in the future or to just catch up on past episodes that you may have missed.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

Episode #25 of Public Media Daily from Public Media Fans is now available on your podcast feeds. Highlights from Monday, June 4th include...1) A slew of programming changes at 88.5 WAMU Washington, D.C. starting June 25th. The changes mainly affect weekends with one change on weekdays. Listen in for more details.2) 91.7 WVXU Cincinnati is changing up the source on its HD2 subchannel, playing Triple-A Music, from XPoNential Radio to a local Cincinnati brewery.3) If you're in the Syracuse area, listen in for details on how to tour WCNY's television and radio studios.4) Robert Siegel is back but for only this week, guest hosting On Point starting today and for the rest of this week.If you like what you hear, let us know! Leave us a rating and a review and also subscribe to our podcast today wherever you can hear us.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

We're back after a long break! This is Episode #24 of Public Media Daily and we're glad that your patient enough to stick around. We took some time off and upgraded our equipment to sound better than before. Highlights from Friday-Sunday, June 1st-3rd, include...1) 90.7 WMFE Orlando delivering another successful "silent drive," its fourth victory in a row.2) NPR is shutting down five news blogs, "The Two-Way," "All Tech Considered," "Parallels," "NPR Ed" and NPR Music's "The Record."3) Revenue is growing inside public media but the smaller stations aren't receiving it, leaving it just for the larger and midsize stations, according to CPB's latest "State of the System" report.4) WKAR East Lansing has just changed its frequencies in the Spectrum Repack, the first public television station in the United States to do so.5) 88.7 WBFO Buffalo wins 11 awards (9 first place and 2 second place) from the New York State Associated Press Association, including "Outstanding News Operation" for the fifth straight year in a row.6) St. Louis Public Radio (90.7 KWMU) turned 46 over the weekend. Over the years, its increased listenership and now broadcasts on an additional two stations (90.3 WQUB and 88.5 KMST).7) We now have a new intro and a closer for the podcast! If you're wondering, it begins with an old PBS ident theme, followed by American Public Television (APT), the legendary and now retired Robert Siegel saying "This is NPR," the Public Radio International (PRI) jingle, the American BBC World Service theme to introduce American Public Media (APM) and the former jingle to PRX (Public Radio Exchange). It concludes with yours truly saying the podcast's name.Its good to be back and if you like what you heard, then subscribe to the podcast wherever you can find us, including: Messy FM, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Player FM, Podcast Addict, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Castbox, Overcast, Short Orange and Podchaser plus everywhere else we could be. Also, leave us a rating and a review and is well appreciated if you do.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

Episode #23 of Public Media Daily is here. Before you get lost because its the weekend, highlights from Thursday May 17th include...01) Day 4 and the final day of April 2018 public radio ratings. Today, we look at Austin, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, Providence, Jacksonville, Greensboro, West Palm Beach, Memphis and Hartford.02) WEIU-TV 51 Charleston, Ill. suffered a technical problem yesterday. As of this episode, its still off-the-air.03) WSKG-TV 46 Binghamton turned 50 last weekend and will throw a party in just a couple of weeks to celebrate it.04) WCVE Richmond is throwing a big party to celebrate the upcoming launch of "WCVE News" (88.9 WCVE, 89.1 WCNV and 90.1 WMVE) and "WCVE Music" (93.1 WWLB and 107.3 WBBT). Robert Siegel will be there emceeing the event so you know it will be good.Before you ooze off for the weekend, a couple of things. No podcast on Monday and we may be back on Tuesday but for sure we'll return on Wednesday. Before then, please subscribe for more episodes wherever you listen (including on Google Play Music now) and leave a rating and a review.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit our website at PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

This is Episode #22 of Public Media Daily and highlights from Wednesday, May 16th include...01) WKAR East Lansing receives 12 regional Michigan Emmy nominations.02) Marketplace has announced the end of Marketplace Weekend, hosted by Lizzie O'Leary.03) Vermont Public Radio (VPR) is upgrading its audio equipment over the weekend so they'll be in automation.04) Day 3 of public radio ratings. Today... Portland, Charlotte, San Antonio, Sacramento, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Orlando, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City and Columbus.04) WSHU opens up a brand new three-story, 21,000 square foot broadcast center facility in Fairfield.05) Clifford The Big Red Dog is returning to PBS Kids in Fall 2019. It will also air on Amazon Prime.06) 1430 WPLN Nashville is off-the-air thanks to damage from its transmitter tower.07) TV 7 and 90.3 FM - KMNE Bassett, Neb. from NET Nebraska was off-the-air for a while yesterday but came back on-the-air within two hours.08) 90.5 KUT Austin is (currently) off-the-air. No word as to why that's the case.09) 93.5 KRTS Marfa, Tex. went off-the-air twice yesterday because of tower maintenance and weather. It came back on-the-air on both occasions.Subscribe to this podcast wherever you can, including our newest podcast platform, Google Play Music! Subscribe for free and leave us a rating and a review. Feedback is very much appreciated. So we're now available on both Apple and Google's respective podcast platforms.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit our website at PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

This is Episode #21 of Public Media Daily on your podcast feed and highlights from Tuesday, May 15th include...01) 90.9 WBUR Boston, Montana Public Radio and 89.7 WUWM Milwaukee won 2018 Associated Press Media Editors awards.02) Janae Pierre is moving from hosting A.T.C. for 89.9 WWNO New Orleans to doing the same thing for 90.3 WBHM Birmingham starting June 18th.03) Day 2 of Public Radio ratings. This time, from D.C., Boston, Miami, Seattle, Detroit, Phoenix, MSP, San Diego, Denver, Tampa, Baltimore and St. Louis.04) 91.3 WUKY Lexington becomes the next to carry "The Daily" from NYT and APM. It starts next week.05) NPR Politics is heading to Charlotte for a live event on June 1st focusing on the 2018 Midterm Elections.Please subscribe on your favorite podcast player and leave a rating and a review as well. Where is this podcast located? Find us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more details.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

This is Episode #20 of Public Media Daily and higlights of this episode, from Monday, May 14th, include...1) A detailed report from Current about transparency for pay equity and sexual harassment trainings that NPR staffers are asking for so badly.2) KDLG Dillingham, Alaska has just added a new radio station to expand its reach.3) 91.5 KIOS Omaha is renovating its studios, mainly its spaces and outside its on-air studio.4) Public radio ratings! Day 1, covering N.Y.C, L.A., Chicago, San Francisco, DFW, Houston, Atlanta, Philly, San Bernardino, San Jose and Northern New Jersey.5) One of Capital Public Radio's stations will experience outages later today because of tower maintenance for 90 minutes.If you enjoy this podcast, then please subscribe wherever you can find us and leave us a rating and a review to help this podcast grow more. We appreciate all ratings and reviews delivered so far about this podcast.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit our website at PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

Episode #19 of Public Media Daily is now available. Highlights from the weekend, Friday-Sunday, May 11th-13th includes...01) Twin Cities PBS (KTCA/KTCI) CEO Jim Pagliarini has decided to retire after 21 years at the helm. He'll stay until a successor is named.02) Technical problems include two of 106.3 KGOU Norman - Oklahoma City's Ada, Okla. transmitters not working on Friday and WFSU-TV 11 Tallahassee getting kicked off-the-air for over-the-air viewers yesterday.Yep, today's episode is that short. Subscribe wherever you can listen and leave a rating and review. Its probably the shortest episode we've ever done so far.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

Episode #18 of Public Media Daily from this shortened week. Due to personal commitments, there was no episode on Wednesday or Thursday. But we're catching up with highlights from Tuesday-Thursday, May 8th-10th including...01) Amanpour is sticking around on PBS with a new hour-long late-night program called "Amanpour and Company." NPR's Michel Martin and PBS Newshour's Hari Sreenivasan will be among the contributors.02) Royal Wedding Watch, a five-part event on the upcoming Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The series and the wedding will be aired on PBS.03) A Congressman from South Texas is trying to get PBS to restore public TV programming in Texas' Rio Grande Valley.04) Stations are worried about changes to NPR's Morning Edition clock.05) All NPR podcasts are now available on Spotify, including Up First, How I Built This, Planet Money and Hidden Brain.06) 106.3 KGOU Norman - O.K.C. has a new information metadata system to alert listeners of severe weather and emergency information to multiple platforms, including mobile phones, HD Radios, "connected car" devices and online apps.07) 91.5 WBEZ Chicago is shaking up its weekday and weekend schedules and is to begin Monday. Tune in for all the details.08) 89.1 WUFT Gainesville now carries "The Daily" from The New York Times and American Public Media.09) Wisconsin Public Television (WHLA-TV 31) and Radio (90.3 WHLA and 88.9 WLSU) is doing tower maintenance in the La Crosse area that will affect service for weeks, even months.10) All three of 89.3 WQED-FM Pittsburgh's online streams was down, including its two online exclusive ones. They're all back up and working now.Subscribe now wherever you can listen. We're available on most podcast platforms. Also leave a rating and a review to send in feedback and help us expand. We hope to be back on Monday with a week full of new episodes.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans and at PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

This is Episode #17 of Public Media Daily. Highlights from Monday, May 7th include...1) WYIN 56 (Gary, Ind. - Chicago), known as Lakeshore PBS, lost power at its offices.2) Advanced tower maintenance coming to 91.3 WLTR (Columbia, S.C.), one of South Carolina Public Radio's "News and Music" stations.3) 90.7 KWMU (St. Louis Public Radio)'s longtime evening host Gerry Rohde passed away unexpectedly yesterday. He was only 55.4) Amy Walter will also host The Takeaway, mainly on Fridays and become the inaugural host of "Takeaway Fridays," an hour-long Takeaway franchise show focusing on policy issues. Tanzina Vega will only host Mondays-Thursdays.5) Georgia Public Broadcasting is experiencing audio and video issues at its TV stations.Subscribe wherever you can listen and leave us a rating and a review. Again, if you want to submit any tips to us, then click on the "Contact Us/Submit Tips" tab at PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com and also check out the site too for more news and content.For even more news and content, then follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans

Episode #16 of Public Media Daily is now here and we're ready to start the week off right. Highlights from the weekend of Friday-Sunday, May 4th-6th include...1) Two 91.5 KJZZ Phoenix executives are suspended on paid leave due to "anonymous allegations" against them.2) KBDI 12 Broomfield - Denver (CPT12: Colorado Public Television) is upgrading its studios to HD.3) 90.1 WABE Atlanta's Denis O'Hayer is retiring after nine years at WABE and 42 years in Atlanta broadcasting.4) WLVT 39 Allentown - Bethlehem, Penn. is hiring journalists for its new nightly newscast, "Reporter Corps."5) WKAR continued its transmitter work for the upcoming F.C.C. Spectrum Repack.6) Alabama Public Radio (APR) was the recipient of the national Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for radio in honor of their multi-part series "Help Wanted: Alabama's Rural Health Care Crisis."7) Technical problems include KLRU 18 Austin and its subs going off-air for a while on Friday and 88.9 KLDN Lufkin - Nacogdoches (RRR: Red River Radio) currently broadcasting on low-power.8) Later today, Tanzina Vega's debut as permanent host on The Takeaway from PRI and WNYC.Subscribe wherever you can listen including RadioPublic, TuneIn, Apple Podcasts, Messy Bun and Stitcher. Leave us a rating and a review as well. 89.7 WUSF Tampa's All Things Considered host Lisa Peaks' interview with Tanzina Vega can be found at wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu (an almost 4-minute interview in full)Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit us at PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

Episode #15 and the final Public Media Daily for this week. Its now on your podcast feed so before you enjoy your weekend, highlights from Thursday, May 3rd include...1) NPR, WNYC Studios, 91.5 WBEZ Chicago and This American Life team up to buy the popular podcast app, Pocket Casts.2) 90.3 WPLN-FM Nashville wins 21 Tennessee Associated Press awards.3) 90.1 KUER-FM Salt Lake City has a new news director, Andrew Becker. Julia Ritchey will remain as Managing Editor.4) PBS has announced the hosts, stars and performers for this year's National Memorial Day Concert.5) South Carolina Public Radio has now added Reveal (CIR and PRX) on its "News" stations.6) 89.3 KCCU Lawton had problems but Lawton never lost NPR thanks to a low-power translator.7) NPR's All Things Considered turned 47 yesterday!Subscribe wherever you can find us including Apple Podcasts, The Short Orange, Podcast Addict, RadioPublic, iHeartRadio or everywhere else you prefer to listen. Leave us a rating and a review as well.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

This is Episode #14 of Public Media Daily, now available and ready for you to listen. If you don't catch up on public media, then thats okay. This is the podcast where you'll hear the latest news from inside the world of public media. Highlights from Wednesday, May 2nd include...1) Public Television will soon have a new interconnection system that'll probably provide programs between stations much cheaper. New Mexico PBS and KSPS-TV 7 Spokane are the test stations.2) KRWG-TV/FM Las Cruces, N.M. wins two-first place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists' Colorado chapter.3) South Carolina Public Radio is the best in Charleston, voted by readers of the Charleston City Paper.4) 90.3 WKMY Morehead, Ky. experienced problems yesterday and is not back until later today. Its webstream was down too so NO access to WMKY whatsoever.We're now on iHeartRadio too! The two biggest radio apps are TuneIn and iHeartRadio and this podcast is now on both! Subscribe there or on RadioPublic, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, Stitcher, Messy Bun or wherever else you prefer to listen to. Leave a rating and a review to help us grow.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans or visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

Episode #13 of Public Media Daily is now on your podcast feed. Highlights from Tuesday, May 1st (our first birthday) include...1) U.K.-based PBS America has moved on Sky from Channel 534 to Channel 160.2) WGVU General Manager Michael Walenta is retiring after 30 years with the PBS/NPR member stations for West Michigan.3) 14 stations have received a CPB grant to cover a special series on veterans coming home and transitioning to normality. Listen to find out which stations received the grant.4) Rachel Estabrook is the new News Director of Colorado Public Radio's news division.5) New Mexico PBS celebrated 60 yesterday. It now has two stations... KNME-TV 5 and KNMD-TV 9 Albuquerque.Subscribe on RadioPublic, TuneIn, Stitcher, Podcast Addict or wherever you listen. Programming notes: Terry Gross interviewed Michelle Wolf about this year's White House Correspondents Dinner (available on podcast platforms now) and Diane Rehm will interview Judy Woodruff this Friday for Diane's "On My Mind" podcast.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans and visit PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com for more news and content.

This is Public Media Daily - Episode #12 on your podcast feed. Its a special episode because one year ago today, Monday, May 1st, 2017, we launched something called Public Media Fans and it still exists today. We pay homage to it at the end of the episode. Highlights from Monday, April 30th include...1) PBS and American Public Television win Daytime Emmy awards.2) Deirdre Walsh is leaving CNN after 17 years to join NPR and its Politics team starting Monday, May 14th.3) Monday, May 14th will also be the day Alabama Public Radio (APR) adds "The Daily" to its schedule. The APM-distributed program will air at 6:30 p.m. weeknights after Marketplace, another APM-distributed program.4) 89.1 KANW-HD2 Albuquerque had some problems and it affected its low-power translators too.5) WDPB 64 Seaford may have had some problems too but its back on-air. This is WHYY-TV 12 Wilmington, Del. - Philadelphia's satellite station.6) Judy Woodruff is the guest speaker for an event in Connecticut on Thursday, May 24th to honor women making significant contributions to journalism, media and communications.7) Its our first birthday! 90.9 WBUR Boston is our 300th follower! Sole one-year birthday gifts include: Our podcast now being on TuneIn and we now have a website too! PublicMediaFans.wordpress.com (Yes, its not fancy... yet.)Thanks to everyone who's followed us and supported us over the past year on Twiter and now, we're adding new places to expand our content and its great!Subscribe on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, RadioPublic, Stitcher, Castbox, Overcast, Short Orange or wherever you prefer to listen. Leave us a rating and a review as well.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content and happy birthday to us!

A brand new week is here and with it, a brand new week of Public Media Daily episodes. Call this one Episode #11 if you're keeping track. Highlights from Friday-Sunday, April 27th-29th include...1) NPR's Research, Archives and Data Strategy (RAD) unit will soon digitize "Enfoque Nacional," NPR's first-ever Spanish-language program, thanks to an almost $37,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).2) Public radio stations winning awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).3) Abigail Beckman will be the new local host for "Morning Edition" on 91.5 KRCC Colorado Springs.4) An update on the Ozarks Public Television (OPTV) transmitter tower situation.5) Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) will be conducting some maintenance on four of its stations during the month of May.6) Colorado Public Radio (CPR) has expanded its reach of CPR Classical to the Fort Range and into Northern Colorado for the first time in a decade.7) Technical problems include: WCNY-TV 24 Syracuse and CPR both conducting maintenance again over the weekend.For more episodes or just to catch up, subscribe on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, RadioPublic, Stitcher, Castbox, Overcast, Short Orange or wherever you prefer to listen.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

This is episode ten of Public Media Daily from Public Media Fans. Its the final episode for the second week of the program and highlights for Thursday, April 26th include...1) Classical 89 is saved as BYU will keep classical music on 89.1 KBYU-FM while putting BYU Radio on its newly purchased 107.9 KUMT.2) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has announced Jan Schaffer as its new Ombudsman. She'll serve a three-year term.3) Window to the World Communications, Inc. (WTTW 11 and 98.7 WFMT Chicago) hires Sandra Cordova Micek as its new President and CEO.4) Firing Line is coming back to PBS under new host Margaret Hoover and new production station WNET New York.5) StoryCorps' Dave Isay becomes a Ellis Island Medal of Honor and from the Washington Women in Journalism awards, Audie Cornish is recognized for Broadcast Radio and Amy Walter is recognized for Broadcast Journalism.6) Happy 69th Birthday, 89.1 KMUW Wichita!Subscribe on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, RadioPublic, Stitcher, Castbox or wherever you prefer to listen. Leave us a rating and a review as well. We're just six followers away from 300 now on Twitter and our first birthday is just four days away.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

Episode nine of Public Media Daily is here. Pay attention to today's episode because its an awards-heavy episode. Highlights from Wednesday, April 25th include...1) KCET and KOCE are merging to combine one super public broadcaster in Southern California. KOCE will still be the main PBS station for SoCal while KCET will return to the network for the first time since 2011 but under secondary status.2) The *FULL* list of public media winners at the 2018 Regional Edward R. Murrow awards.3) 106.7 WKVM Matewan, W.V. from WVPB is back on, as it promised.Subscribe to us on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, RadioPublic, Stitcher or wherever else you found this and decided to listen from. Listen in and then leave us a rating and review as feedback is much needed to help grow and improve the program.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

This is Episode 8 of Public Media Daily from Public Media Fans. Highlights from Tuesday, April 24th include...1) More award news to talk about, involving 90.3 WVIK-FM Rock Island, Ill. and the Illinois A.P.; NPR, PBS, MPR and S-Town win Peabodys and public media winners at The Webbys!2) Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR) wants to sell 1290 WRPA Providence after Latino Public Radio ended its run and failed to buy the 1290 frequency.3) A 10-page report detailing results into a five-month investigation of New York Public Radio's sexual harassment allegations and workplace behavior. NYPR owns AM 820 and 93.9 FM - WNYC Radio, Classical 106.9 WQXR, New Jersey Public Radio and WNYC Studios.4) Technical problems include a low-power digital translator for Iowa Public Television (IPTV) going off-the-air for maintenance and a radio station from WVPB going off-the-air that may not return until later today.5) An All Things Considered host is heading down to Baltimore for an event hosted by 88.1 WYPR Baltimore. HINT: Its definitely not Ari Shapiro. Instead, its one of the three ladies who co-host the program. Tune in to find out who.6) Yesterday was WOSU's 96th birthday and it may originate from a station that is still on-the-air, however, its no longer connected to WOSU in any way.7) NPR Music has awarded a winner in the fourth-annual Tiny Desk Contest! Tune in to find out more about the winner, what the winner will receive and listen in to the winning song submission.Subscribe on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, RadioPublic, Stitcher and wherever you prefer to listen. We're still working to get on TuneIn and iHeartRadio and we'll also try to get into Google Play Music as well. Just search the program's title, "Public Media Daily" on any one of the five platforms the podcast is already available on.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.Song submission, "Soft Spoken" and audio is courtesy of Naia Izumi on YouTube.

Episode seven of Public Media Daily is now available on this podcast feed. This is where you'll get all the latest news from the world of public media and highlights from Monday, April 23rd include...1) PRX has received a new look and a new website for its upcoming 15th anniversary in September.2) Michigan Radio has won 14 awards Sunday from the Michigan A.P. Media Editors while 89.1 WGLT Bloomington, Ill. wins four awards from the Illinois A.P.3) WYCC is back on-the-air in Chicago on Channel 20.1 broadcasting MHz Worldview programming.4) 91.3 WHQR Wilmington becomes the latest station to announce that it'll add "The Daily" (NYT and APM) to its weeknight schedule at 6:00 p.m. starting next Monday, April 30th.5) Classical HQR Wilmington will add three new classical music programs to its schedule starting next week: Performance Today (MPR and APM), SymphonyCast (MPR and APM) and From The Top (NPR).6) Required tower maintenance for the upcoming FCC spectrum repack will force WKAR-TV 23, 90.5 WKAR-FM and 105.1 W233CH in East Lansing to experience outages and off-air periods until May 9th.7) Happy 45th Birthday to 89.9 WVIA-FM. It signed on-the-air April 23rd, 1973 and Mixed Bag host George Graham has been there since day one. Did you know it owns a jazz music record label called "Chiaroscuro Records"?8) This podcast is now available on Stitcher! We're now available on at least five different podcast platforms with more in the works.Subscribe on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, RadioPublic and Stitcher. Leave us a rating and review to help us become more noticeable.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.R.I.P. WCMZ-TV 28 Flint, Mich. (August 23rd, 1980-April 23rd, 2018)

This is episode six of Public Media Daily, giving you the latest news on public broadcasting in podcasting form. Highlights from Friday-Sunday, April 20th-22nd include...1) NPR's Tamara Keith has given birth to a baby boy. She also did her NPR Politics podcast a day before giving birth.2) 89.5 KWGS Tulsa, 90.5 KUT Austin and 90.1 KERA Dallas - Fort Worth all won awards over the weekend.3) South Florida PBS launches a new 24-hour health channel called obviously, "The Health Channel."4) Ozarks Public Television (OPTV) is back on DirecTV, U-verse and Mediacom customers after a tower fall that killed a worker and injured several others last week.5) Alejandra Martinez has left KUT Austin to join WLRN Miami.6) Boise State Public Radio will have its own daily show, "Idaho Matters," starting later today. Programming changes have been made as a result too.7) Technical problems include: KMBH has been off-the-air for two months, KXJZ and its online stream was briefly off Saturday morning, WCNY-TV wasn't working most of the weekend and Colorado Public Radio had maintenance Saturday night.8) NPR's Its Been A Minute is visiting Chicago for a live show.9) WFAE's Charlotte Talks turned 20 last Friday and Robert Costa has now hosted Washington Week for a year.10) NPR's Tiny Desk concerts turned 10 over the weekend and as a treat, we play one of Laura Gibson's songs from the first-ever concert back in 2008.Subscribe for free on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM and now, RadioPublic! We're working on getting this podcast up on Stitcher and TuneIn. Also, leave us a rating and review to help us grow.Audio at the end from today's episode is from NPR's first Tiny Desk Content in 2008 and is courtesy of NPR Music on YouTube.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

Its the fifth episode of Public Media Daily and the final one for the week. Highlights for Thursday, April 19th include...1) Ozarks Public Television's transmitter tower collapsed, killing one and injured six others. Transmitter work was done because of the upcoming FCC Spectrum Repack. OPTV is scrambling to get satellite and over-the-air viewers back on.2) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is requesting for an additional $10 million in federal funding, starting in FY21.3) NPR's Mary-Louise Kelly, NPR and public radio women have won several Gracie awards for their work, one including Mary-Louise's interview with NPR CEO Jarl Mohn after the sexual harassment allegations against NPR surfaced.4) WCMZ-TV 28 Flint is going off-the-air Monday at Midnight. WDCQ-TV 19 (Q-TV) will remain as the PBS affiliate for Flint and all of Mid-Michigan. (WCMU Public Television will remain in the market via flagship WCMU-TV 14 Mount Pleasant, Mich.)5) WCNY-FM's satellite station, 90.9 WJNY Watertown, is off-the-air due to a failure with a connection provider.We'll review Friday's, Saturday's and Sunday's happenings on Monday's episode so please subscribe to our weekday podcast on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM or wherever you prefer to listen.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

The fourth episode of Public Media Daily is here. This is a new, quick and daily podcast from Public Media Fans. Highlights from Wednesday, April 18th include...1) 90.7 WFAE Charlotte's Joni Deutsch wins a Gracie award for a WVPB-produced podcast.2) Michigan Radio is the most-listened-to NPR station in most of Michigan, mainly in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Flint, its coverage area.3) WKAR East Lansing has moved its News/Talk service from 94.5 to 105.1 FM. Its 24/7 because AM 870 WKAR is only on from Sunrise to Sunset. Plus... 90.5 WKAR-FM had poor or no reception due to ice build up on their main antenna from winter weather.4) KERA TV/FM DFW is nominated for 12 Texas A.P. awards this weekend. But WMKY Morehead, Ky. won 16 awards recently from the Kentucky A.P.5) KPBS TV/FM San Diego is up for a Malin Burnham award for being the Most Admired News Source in San Diego.6) KAET 8 Phoenix is experimenting the new "ATSC 3.0" format.7) Tributes continue to pour in for Mr. Carl Kasell who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 84 from Alzheimer's Disease. Hear from the tribute from The Takeaway (in full) on today's episode.8) Hey, University of Kentucky's School of Journalism and Media. You just got a shoutout from us because you're now following us. They own 91.3 WUKY Lexington.9) Lakshmi Singh, one of NPR's newscasters, was a guest on WGVU Grand Rapids' Newsmakers.10) POV on PBS aired a documentary on Bill Nye: The Science Guy. Despite that show being co-produced by Walt Disney Television, it was aired on PBS and co-produced and nationally distributed by KCTS 9 Seattle.Subscribe to us on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM or wherever you prefer to listen.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.

The third episode of Public Media Daily for you to listen to get your day started. Highlights for Tuesday, April 17th include...1) NPR wins three Gracie awards for coverage of the #MeToo movement.2) 102.3 KHNS in Haines, Alaska has become the first station to add "The Daily" from NYT and APM since the program's public radio debut.3) Hawaii Public Radio unexpectedly expanded their Spring Fund Drive by a day. It reached its goal and then some.4) Technical problems involving one TV/FM combo from NET Nebraska and an HPR-2 translator in Kailua-Kona.5) A tribute to Carl Kasell, the longtime "Morning Edition" newscaster and "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" scorekeeper, who passed away at the age of 84 after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.Subscribe to this podcast on Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM or wherever you prefer to listen. We're on your podcast feeds every weekday morning.Follow us on @PubMediaFans for more news and content.R.I.P. Carl Kasell (April 2nd, 1934 - April 17th, 2018)

This is episode 2 of Public Media Daily. News and notes from Monday, April 16th include...1) More awards were received by public broadcasters.2) 90.3 KEXP Seattle receives a generous gift.3) A How I Built This summit (October 16th in San Francisco).4) Shoutouts to give away to.5) Technical problems at WBFO's WUBJ repeater and Michigan Radio's WVGR.There's a whole lot more, including a programming note for Fresh Air listeners for Tuesday's edition.Subscribe at Messy Bun, Apple Podcasts, Player FM or wherever you prefer to listen.Follow us @PubMediaNews for more news and content.

Its the first episode of Public Media Daily! It won't be perfect from the start, but we will improve as time goes by.1) Lots of awards given to public radio stations at Associated Press' statewide broadcasters associations awards.2) Winter weather causing problems at Pioneer Public Television and Michigan Radio, as well as technical problems at KNPB and at one of W.V. Public's radio stations.3) MPR and Garrison Keillor now like each other again as past editions of APHC and The Writer's Almanac will soon be available once more for your enjoyment.4) WLRN has to pay back $784K to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) due to overpayments.5) Other news includes Kai Ryssdal hosting CBS Sunday Morning and Science Friday has returned to Indiana Public Radio.Follow us on Twitter @PubMediaFans for more news and content.