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Opera House Director Clashes with PM Magyar over Public Media Bias
In a Facebook post, General Director of the Hungarian State Opera House Szilveszter Ókovács questioned the impartiality of…
#Hungary #HU #Europe #Europa #EU #bias #debate #facebook #hír #HungarianStateOperaHouse #hungary #Hungarynews #Magyarország #mediabias #MTI #negativecoverage #Origo.hu #PeterMagyar #PrimeMinister #Publicmedia #SzilveszterÓkovács
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https://www.europesays.com/3251191/ Opera House Director Clashes with PM Magyar over Public Media Bias #bias #debate #facebook #hír #HungarianStateOperaHouse #hungary #HungaryNews #Magyarország #MediaBias #MTI #NegativeCoverage #OrigoHu #PeterMagyar #PrimeMinister #PublicMedia #SzilveszterÓkovács
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Opera House Director Clashes with PM Magyar over Public Media Bias https://www.byteseu.com/2365788/ #bias #debate #Facebook #HungarianStateOperaHouse #Hungary #HungaryNews #MediaBias #MTI #NegativeCoverage #OrigoHu #PeterMagyar #PrimeMinister #PublicMedia #SzilveszterÓkovács
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https://www.europesays.com/people/227453/ Opera House Director Clashes with PM Magyar over Public Media Bias #bias #debate #Facebook #HungarianStateOperaHouse #Hungary #HungaryNews #MediaBias #MTI #NegativeCoverage #OrigoHu #PeterMagyar #PrimeMinister #PublicMedia #SzilveszterÓkovács
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https://www.europesays.com/people/219939/ Six Members Elected to New Hungarian Public Media Independence Body #BayerJudit #Hungary #HungaryNews #independence #journalism #Legislation #Media #Parliament #PeterMagyar #PublicMedia
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Revenue Without Capture
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 8, 2026
Overview
Public media has long treated revenue as a threat to mission rather than a condition of survival. This caution is understandable. Commercial pressures have distorted media institutions repeatedly, often at the expense of public trust. But the absence of a revenue strategy does not eliminate risk. It concentrates it.
The challenge is not whether public media should generate revenue. It is whether it can do so without surrendering control, credibility, or purpose.
The false choice between purity and collapse
Debates about public media funding are often framed as moral binaries: public funding versus commercialization, integrity versus profit, mission versus money. This framing obscures a more practical reality. Institutions without resilient funding structures are easier to pressure, redirect, or dismantle than those with diversified support.
Revenue is not inherently corrupting. Capture occurs when revenue sources gain leverage over editorial or strategic decisions. Avoiding capture requires design, not abstinence.
Why dependence creates vulnerability
Public media systems that rely heavily on a single funding stream—especially one subject to annual political negotiation—operate under permanent uncertainty. That uncertainty shapes behavior long before any explicit threat is made. Decisions are deferred. Risks are avoided. Innovation becomes conditional.
Diversified revenue does not eliminate public accountability. It reduces fragility.
An institution supported by multiple aligned sources can withstand pressure that would overwhelm a single-source model.
Ethical revenue models already exist
Public media does not need to invent new funding mechanisms. Many are already in use at limited scale:
Subscription access that prioritizes archives and educational material.
Institutional licensing for schools, libraries, and universities.
Curriculum partnerships that integrate existing programming into formal education.
International access models that serve global audiences without advertising pressure.These approaches share a common feature: they monetize access, not influence.
Revenue flows from use, not from control over content.
Separating funding from influence
The central principle of revenue without capture is structural separation. Funding mechanisms must be designed so that no single contributor, sponsor, or partner can shape programming priorities or suppress material.
This requires clear governance rules, transparency, and limits on dependency. It also requires cultural clarity inside the institution: revenue exists to support the mission, not redefine it.
Public media already understands this principle in theory. The task is to apply it systematically in digital environments.
Scale without distortion
Digital delivery changes the economics of public media. Archives that were once costly to distribute become scalable. Educational content that served local audiences can serve global ones without proportional cost increases.
This creates the possibility of modest, distributed revenue at scale rather than large, concentrated funding sources. Many small contributors exert less influence than a few large ones.
Scale, when aligned with mission, can be protective.
Revenue as resilience, not growth
The goal of revenue diversification is not expansion for its own sake. It is stability. A resilient institution can plan, invest, and adapt without constantly recalculating political risk.
Revenue that reinforces access, education, and preservation strengthens legitimacy rather than undermining it. When audiences pay for what they use, support becomes tangible rather than abstract.
That support is harder to withdraw quietly.
Establishing the boundary
Public media’s credibility depends on maintaining a clear boundary between funding and editorial authority. That boundary must be explicit, enforced, and visible. Without it, revenue becomes a liability. With it, revenue becomes insulation.
The next essays in this series will examine how public media can operate under permanent political pressure and what institutional life looks like once survival is no longer the dominant concern.
For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com
This essay will be archived as part of the ongoing WPS News Monthly Brief Series available through Amazon.
Cliff Potts holds a degree in telecommunications management, a diploma in radio broadcasting, and a PhD in metaphysics. He is the sole author of this series.
References
Aufderheide, P. (1999). Communications policy and the public interest. Guilford Press.
Baker, C. E. (2002). Media, markets, and democracy. Cambridge University Press.
Napoli, P. M. (2011). Audience evolution: New technologies and the transformation of media audiences. Columbia University Press.
#digitalSustainability #institutionalResilience #mediaFunding #publicBroadcastingStrategy #publicMedia #revenueModels
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"...the federal money Congress rescinded last summer was not paying for national programming. It was keeping the local signal on the air. And in many of those communities, that signal does something most Americans never think about: it carries the emergency alert."
The Hollywood Reporter: Congress Didn't Just Defund Public Media, It Defunded the Emergency Alert
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Iran’s currency hits new record low as US prepares to announce more sanctions
The rial dropped to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar as trading opened on currency markets. The currency…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #BBC #breakingnews #Business #CurrencyMarkets #DonaldTrump #Iran #Irangovernment #iranwar #Israelgovernment #LukeGarratt #MasoudPezeshkian #MediaAPIvideo #Publicmedia #Sanctionsandembargoes #ScottBessent
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/262460/ Iran’s currency hits new record low as US prepares to announce more sanctions #bbc #Business #CurrencyMarkets #DonaldTrump #Iran #IranGovernment #IranWar #IsraelGovernment #LukeGarratt #MasoudPezeshkian #MediaAPIVideo #PublicMedia #SanctionsAndEmbargoes #ScottBessent
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Iran’s currency hits new record low as US prepares to announce more sanctions
The rial dropped to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar as trading opened on currency markets. The currency…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #BBC #business #CurrencyMarkets #DonaldTrump #Iran #Irangovernment #iranwar #israelgovernment #LukeGarratt #MasoudPezeshkian #MediaAPIvideo #middleeast #middleeastcrisis #Publicmedia #Sanctionsandembargoes #ScottBessent #Tehran
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Iran’s currency hits new record low as US prepares to announce more sanctions
The rial dropped to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar as trading opened on currency markets. The currency…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iran #bbc #Business #Currencymarkets #DonaldTrump #Irangovernment #IranWar #Israelgovernment #LukeGarratt #MasoudPezeshkian #MediaAPIvideo #Publicmedia #Sanctionsandembargoes #ScottBessent
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https://www.europesays.com/3212743/ Iran’s currency hits new record low as US prepares to announce more sanctions #BBC #business #Conflicts #CurrencyMarkets #DonaldTrump #Iran #IranGovernment #IranWar #IsraelGovernment #LukeGarratt #MasoudPezeshkian #MediaAPIVideo #MiddleEast #MiddleEastCrisis #PublicMedia #SanctionsAndEmbargoes #ScottBessent #Tehran
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https://www.europesays.com/people/199410/ Trump urges court to reject BBC’s bid to secure records from his family in defamation case #BBCTrumpDefamationLawsuitSubpoenasIvankaKushner #Business #Courts #DonaldTrumpJr #Entertainment #GeneralNews #lawsuits #LegalProceedings #Politics #PublicMedia #subpoenas #Trials #Trump #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/people/198992/ BBC seeks Trump family testimony in his defamation lawsuit #BBC #Business #Courts #DonaldJTrump #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpJr #Florida #GeneralNews #IvankaTrump #JaredKushner #Jr #lawsuits #LegalProceedings #PublicMedia #RoyAltman #Trials #Trump #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/people/198258/ Trump urges court to reject BBC bid for family records in defamation case #BBC #Business #Courts #DCWire #DistrictOfColumbia #DonaldTrump #Entertainment #FLStateWire #Florida #GeneralNews #IvankaTrump #JaredKushner #JeffreyKuntz #JoeBiden #Jr #lawsuits #LegalProceedings #Miami #Politics #PublicMedia #subpoenas #Trials #Trump #TrumpHub #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/people/198153/ Trump urges court to reject BBC’s bid to secure records from his family in defamation case #Business #Courts #Entertainment #GeneralNews #IvankaTrump #lawsuits #LegalProceedings #Politics #PublicMedia #subpoenas #Trials #Trump #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/news/66288/ BBC seeks Trump family testimony in $10B defamation case #BBC #Business #Courts #DonaldJTrump #DonaldTrump #Florida #GeneralNews #Headlines #IvankaTrump #JaredKushner #Jr #Lawsuits #LegalProceedings #News #PublicMedia #RoyAltman #TopStories #Trials #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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BBC seeks Trump family testimony in $10B defamation case
LONDON (AP) — The BBC asked a U.S. court for help in getting documents and testimony from members…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #BBC #Business #Courts #DonaldTrump #donald-j-trump #Florida #Generalnews #IvankaTrump #JaredKushner #Jr. #Lawsuits #Legalproceedings #Publicmedia #RoyAltman #trials #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
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BBC seeks Trump family testimony in $10B defamation case
LONDON (AP) — The BBC asked a U.S. court for help in getting documents and testimony from members…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #BBC #business #courts #donaldjtrump #DonaldTrump #Florida #generalnews #IvankaTrump #JaredKushner #jr. #Lawsuits #Legalproceedings #Publicmedia #RoyAltman #trials #trump #Washingtonnews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/3197590/ BBC seeks Trump family testimony in $10B defamation case #BBC #business #courts #DonaldJTrump #DonaldTrump #Florida #GeneralNews #IvankaTrump #JaredKushner #Jr #Lawsuits #LegalProceedings #PublicMedia #RoyAltman #trials #trump #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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M1 to Broadcast Performances by Hungarian Artists from Sziget Festival
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#Hungary #HU #Europe #Europa #EU #broadcasting #concerts #Culture #Festivals #hír #hungary #Hungarynews #M1 #Magyarország #music #Publicmedia #Sziget #SzigetFestival
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https://www.europesays.com/3177965/ M1 to Broadcast Performances by Hungarian Artists from Sziget Festival #broadcasting #concerts #Culture #Festivals #hír #hungary #HungaryNews #M1 #Magyarország #music #PublicMedia #Sziget #SzigetFestival
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Supporting Public Media does have its rewards, like a mug for hot cocoa
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One year after #Congress cut $535 million in #federalfunding for #CPB #publicmedia, the network is still adapting. While donations increased, they came disproportionately from big donors in big cities, leaving smaller stations vulnerable. The #PublicMediaBridgeFund, a $100 million effort by large foundations, is helping stabilise the network, with some mergers already underway. https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-public-editor/2026/07/23/g-s1-135128/one-year-ago-congress-killed-the-cpb-public-media-is-still-trying-to-figure-out-the-future?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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I grew up watching the World Cup on SBS. It opened a window to the world that commercial TV never could.
Since then it’s given us outstanding journalism, foreign films, documentaries and voices you simply don’t hear elsewhere. It’s one of Australia’s great public institutions.
Now it’s under attack by the usual right-wing culture warriors. I owe SBS far more than I can ever repay, so this is my chance to give something back.
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Polish Journalists’ Association Condemns Hungary Public Media Restructuring
Péter Magyar (left) and Donald Tusk (right) The Polish Journalists’ Association says the situation in Hungary bears an…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #DonaldTusk #mediafreedom #mediarestructuring #PéterMagyar #PolishJournalists'Association #pressfreedom #publicmedia #SDP #statemedia
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https://www.europesays.com/people/146739/ Polish Journalists’ Association Condemns Hungary Public Media Restructuring #DonaldTusk #MediaFreedom #MediaRestructuring #PeterMagyar #Poland #PolishJournalists'Association #PressFreedom #PublicMedia #SDP #StateMedia
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Polish Journalists’ Association Condemns Hungary Public Media Restructuring https://www.byteseu.com/2182419/ #DonaldTusk #Hungary #MediaFreedom #MediaRestructuring #PeterMagyar #Poland #PolishJournalists'Association #PressFreedom #PublicMedia #SDP #StateMedia
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https://www.europesays.com/people/143922/ Public Media Goes Silent, EU Mentored Tisza Government Fires Editors and Journalists #AndrásPHorváth #HiradoHu #HírTV #M1 #MediaReform #MTVA #NewsSuspension #PublicBroadcasting #PublicMedia #TiszaParty #ViktorOrbán
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https://www.europesays.com/people/143549/ Péter Magyar’s New Public Media Czar Fires Editor of Beloved Sports Daily #AndrásHorváth #Fidesz #GyörgySzöllősi #MediaRestructuring #MTVA #NemzetiSport #PeterMagyar #PublicMedia #Tisza #ZsoltSomogyi
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https://www.europesays.com/people/143417/ Hungary’s Public Media Goes Dark, Apologizes for ‘Years of Lying’ as Tisza Takes Over #Fidesz #HiradoHu #Hungary #HungaryNews #MediaOverhaul #MTVA #OperationPurgatory #PeterMagyar #Propaganda #PublicMedia #TamásSulyok #TiszaParty #ViktorOrbán
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I regret that I missed the opportunity to tell maga morons that they are doing geo-engineering with their fireworks.
Could you imagine telling the #ChemTrail crowd? 🤯 Something to keep in your pocket for next year…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection
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The season of #HowWeSurvive I’m listening to is about geo-engineering. One of the methods of cooling the planet is injection of sulfur into the atmosphere. Ideally a lot higher in the atmosphere than last night. I wonder if today will be cooler it’s pretty thick…
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100 founding seats. That's the ceiling, and it doesn't refill.
Being a founding member of The Daily Gathering means a hand on the wheel — founders help steer where this thing goes, what it covers, what it grows into. And the live broadcast every Monday and Friday at 1pm? The host's chair is open to founders. You don't just read the room. You can stand in it#FoundingMember #IndieMedia #FediverseCulture #QueerMedia #ReaderFunded #Newsletter #Community #LGBTQ #PublicMedia
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#PBS #NPR - On Thursday, June 4, local public media stations, partners, and advocates are uniting for Protect My Public Media Day, a national moment to protect the future of local, noncommercial service.
This year’s theme, Locally Rooted. Rising Together., reflects the spirit of the day: locally grounded service, collective action, and shared commitment to protecting the future of local public media stations.
Here’s how you can help on June 4:
Take action: Contact your Members of Congress and urge them to restore federal funding for local public media stations.
Share your story: Record a short video message or submit a brief testimonial about what your local public media station means to you, how it has shaped your life or how it strengthens your community.
Spread the word: Post on social media and encourage others to rise in support of their local public media stations. #PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting -
Why on earth is rnz.co.nz - a website run by 100% publicly-funded RNZ - still quietly serving scripts from third-party domains?
If the software they're running is Free Code they can serve it from their own domain. If it's not, depending on it is a ruinous compromise, in some case with known DataFarms, owned by technofacsists who are cozying up to the antidemocratic regime currently occupying the White House.
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NPR Receives $113 Million From 2 Gifts #publicmedia
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Trump Attacks On Public Media Blocked By Judge (But It’s Too Little, Too Late)
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Trump Attacks On Public Media Blocked By Judge (But It’s Too Little, Too Late)
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CW: US Politics / Public Media Funding
Public Television Stations Blast `Zero' Funding in Proposed Federal Budget | TV Tech https://www.tvtechnology.com/regulatory-legal/public-television-stations-blast-zero-funding-in-proposed-federal-budget
#PBS #PublicMedia #USPol #Broadcasting #Journalism #Budget2026
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Too late - he will ignore per usual. Judge rules #Trump order eliminating #NPR, #PBS funding is #unconstitutional. #Trump order violated the #FirstAmendment #rights of the #publicmedia giants, a federal judge in Washington found. #democracy #ruleoflaw #government #journalism #media #freespeech https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/31/trump-npr-pbs-funding-unconstitutional/?location=alert
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AP News: Judge blocks Trump order to end funding for National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service
https://apnews.com/article/trump-npr-pbs-funding-executive-order-fbd9500e5f7400deab84ead188c35694
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Episode 39 - They're Shutting Down Big Bird and Elmo #publicmedia #shocking #news
Thanks for check out my Short. If you're looking for a deeper dive you can find my long-form videos over on my main YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheBusinessBehindTheNews#business #businessnews #tbbtn #youtube #shorts #reels #tiktoks #vids #fyp #fypシ #fypシ゚viral #fyppppppppppppppppppppppp
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Episode 27 - Public Media Death Spiral Just Accelerated #publicmedia #npr #apm
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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=zuZV7ES4VE8gonna teach this tomorrow
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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
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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.
But the cancellation of Fair Go and other flagship TVNZ shows was an example of what I meant.
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"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
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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#Fediverse #Mastodon #Journalist #Nachrichten #socialmedia #SozialeNetzwerke #ÖRR #PublicMedia
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“Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come.”…
Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting ran on PBS (and the CBC) from 1983 to 1994. Reruns continue around the world, including the non-commercial digital subchannel network Create and the streaming service Hulu. As part of its launch of Twitch Creative, Twitch streamed every episode over a nine-day period starting on October 29, 2015 – what would have been Ross’s 73rd birthday– and scored 5.6 million viewers. So they created a weekly rebroadcast of all 31 seasons of The Joy of Painting to air, with episodes in order, on Twitch each Monday from November 2015 onward, and a marathon of episodes each October 29. In the United Kingdom, the BBC re-ran episodes during the COVID-19 pandemic while most viewers were in lockdown at home.
Ross is estimated to have pained 30,000 canvases during his lifetime. But as those paintings are scarce on the art market, sale prices of the paintings average in the thousands of dollars and frequently topping $10,000. Lately, they’ve done even better– and for an important cause.
Starting last November, auction house Bonhams has been offering what will be a total of 30 Ross oils to benefit the public broadcasting system that made him famous…
Bob Ross’s Babbling Brook (1993)Bonhams has revealed the next works by the beloved US television painter Bob Ross it will offer for sale, with auction proceeds going toward public television following devastating funding cuts by president Donald Trump’s administration. More than $1bn in federal funding previously allocated to support public broadcasters was slashed by the Republican-controlled congress last year.
Last year, Bonhams announced it would sell 30 Ross paintings donated by Bob Ross Inc to benefit public television. The first three paintings from the group went up for sale in November and fetched a combined total of $662,000 with fees. Ross’s painting Winter’s Peace (1993) sold for $318,000 with fees, setting an auction record for the artist. Just weeks later, that record was shattered again when his painting Cabin at Sunset (1987) sold for more than $1m in an online charity auction for the Public Media Bridge Fund initiative [see here], organised by the television host John Oliver. [One more reason to love John Oliver.]
Three more Ross paintings will be part of the “Americana: Crafting a Nation: Art, History & Legacy” auction on 27 January at Bonhams in Massachusetts, and could fetch as much as $155,000 collectively, according to the auction house’s estimates.
Valley View (1990) is estimated to sell for between $30,000 and $50,000, and was the first work completed for the 21st volume of Ross’s Joy of Painting instructional book. Change of Seasons (1990) comes with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000, and was completed live on air in 1990, on the 11th episode of the 20th season of his The Joy of Painting television series. In that episode, Ross describes the scene as “just a beautiful little painting”.
Babbling Brook (1993), a unique oval-shaped painting, is estimated to fetch between $25,000 and $45,000. It was completed during filming for the first episode of the 30th season of The Joy of Painting. Ross often let the subject in his landscapes develop as he went along, encouraging viewers to add spontaneous details as they saw fit. While painting Babbling Brook, Ross said, “I see something!” and painted in a waterfall, adding: “Let your imagination take you to any world that you want to go to.”
An additional 24 Ross works will be sold throughout this year across Bonhams salesrooms in New York, Boston and Los Angeles, the auction house says…
Giving back: “More Bob Ross paintings head to auction to benefit US public television” from @theartnewspaper.bsky.social.
* Bob Ross
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As we “don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents,” we might note that Ross’ rough contemporary and fellow “popular” painter, Thomas Kinkade was born on this date in 1958. While Ross was concerned with communicating the joy of creating and was opposed to his paintings becoming “financial instruments,” Kinkade was focused on capitalizing on his creations.
Kinkade, who described himself as a “master of light” (putting himself in the company of Rembrandt and Caravaggio), achieved success during his lifetime via the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products through the Thomas Kinkade Company (according to which, at one point one in every 20 American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings).
Ross died in 1995 of complications from lymphoma (which he’d had for several years). KInkade died in 2012 of acute intoxication from alcohol and diazepam.
Thomas Kinkade “Bambi’s First Year” (source)“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that”
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day
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Open Source Mapping for News - Reuters [tutorial / overview]
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https://scottreinhardmaps.com/blogs/custom-mapping-projects/custom-reuters-open-source-mapping <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Reuters #news #publicmedia #media #maps #cartography #cartographer #opensource #opendata #Mapbox #MapLibre #Maputnik #Protomaps #newsservive #newsroom #news #tools #workflows #tutorials #overview #webmapping #newsorganisations #newsorganizations #automation #reporters #aesthetics #design #graphics #infographics
#Reuters | #OpenStreetMap | #OGC
