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8/26/2010 - Barbara Cochran, former president of the Radio Television Digital News Association, has been named the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She will work out of the school's D.C. bureau. Full story: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/456411-Cochran_Named_Journalism_Chair_At_Mizzou.php
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ReplyDeleteBarbara Cochran: Public Broadcasters Need Broadband Makeover
Former RTNDA president says noncoms should seek government space on cable, telco broadband nets
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/8/2010 9:42:31 AM
Former RTNDA President Barbara Cochran is advising public TV and radio stations to morph from a broadcast to a broadband model, and says one way to do that would be to seek government reserved capacity on those cable and telco broadband networks similar to their broadcast spectrum set-asides.
While she says spectrum auction proceeds could be used to support that remake, fees on broadcasters or advertising are not a fair funding model.
In a new report released Wednesday (Dec. 8), she recommends that public media should seek a government set-aside of broadband capacity similar to their broadcast spectrum "reservation," that public TV stations should start producing more local news and information, expand on programs to share more digital content, that the Public Broadcasting Act should be overhauled and funds redirected from "outmoded broadcasting infrastructure" to broadband," and that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP) should become the Corporation for Public Media (CPM). CPB is the congressionally created entity that administers the approximately 15% of noncom budgets that comes from federal funding.
Full article: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/460820-Barbara_Cochran_Public_Broadcasters_Need_Broadband_Makeover.php