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| Mike Crane is still in Madison |
Perhaps
I wasn’t the only person who did a double take when seeing an online post about
an opening for a new Director of Wisconsin Public Media. Could Mike Crane be
leaving?
Crane
immediately replied to our question about his status with a concise No way! It turns out that new Wisconsin
opening is a person to be Crane’s boss.
Wisconsin
Public Media is an umbrella organization that administers state and private
funding for Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) and
statewide educational outreach.
If
you or someone you know is interested, application information is here. Questions may be directed
to Carla.anderson@vilas.uwex.edu.
FOUR MORE CITIES WHERE
NPR NEWS/TALK STATIONS ARE “KING OF THE NEWS HILL”
We
received several comments from readers about our post yesterday regarding markets
where NPR News/Talk stations are leading commercial News/Talk stations in both
weekly cumulative listeners and AQH share. This is a trend we will continue to
follow because it seems to be gaining momentum.
In
some cases the once dominant commercial News/Talker stations are suffering
declines because budget cutting has zapped local newsrooms. In other cases, commercial
stations have apparently given up.
In
Portland, KOPB is not only the top station in estimated weekly listeners it
beats all other stations in the market with a 9.6% AQH share.
KOPB’s AQH is
almost double their closest commercial station rival KXL-FM which had a 5.0%
AQH and 278,300 estimated weekly listeners.
The
station with the biggest percentage gainer of weekly listeners is KBOO [link],
a Portland media voice since 1968.
KUT
in Austin lost 8% of their estimated weekly listeners comparing January 2018
Nielsen PPM ratings with January 2017. Despite this drop, KUT extended its AQH
lead (AQH share: 7.2%) over long-time commercial News/Talk KLBJ-AM (AQH share:
4.1%).
Also
in Austin, Sun Radio, an amalgamation
of five signals including KDRP, almost doubled its estimated weekly listeners
in the past year.
The
“Research Triangle” is one of the places where is appears commercial News/Talk
operators have given up.
Not only did
WUNC increase its estimated weekly listeners between January 2017 and January
2018, WUNC’s AQH share of 9.1%, dwarfs the AQH of its closest commercial
News/Talk competitors WTKK (AQH share 4.7%) and WPTF-AM (AQH share 1.1%).
WPLN
in Nashville had an AQH share of 5.0%, far bigger than Cumulus Media’s right-wing
talker WWTN (AQH share: 3.5%. A few years ago WLAC-AM was the “radio news of
record” in Nashville. Now it barely has a pulse with an AQH share of 1.4% and a
weekly cume of only 52,600.
CURRENT HOSTS PUBLIC MEDIA CAREER FAIR
Folks
interested in pursuing a career in public media, or upgrading their current
career, are invited to participate in a Public Media Virtual Career Fair sponsored
by Current on Thursday, March 15th
from Noon to 3:00pm ET.
The
three-hour career fair will be meeting online. Participants will see which
employers are looking to hire, the specific opportunities available from each
employer, and background information about each hiring organization. Job
seekers will be able to chat with employer representatives.
Some
of the participating employers include: PBS, NPR,
WGBH,
WNYC, WNET, WBUR, Arizona Public Media, South Florida PBS, Louisiana Public
Broadcasting and KUED-TV & KUER-FM, Salt Lake City.
Virtual
Career Fair is free for jobseekers! For more information Reserve your spot and
upload
your resume today at [link]. Employers who want to be added to the roster
should contact
Julie Drizin at julie@CURRENT.ORG.
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