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July 8, 2021 Bureau of Labor Statistics Shows Broadcasting Added Back 700 Jobs Since June 2020The latest employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows some growth in the broadcasting business from a year ago, with 700 jobs added since June 2020. In addition, total jobs in broadcasting (excluding internet) have seen a gain of 1,300 from April to June of this year, reflecting stations re-hiring as vaccinations increased and mask mandates were lifted, following the worst of the pandemic. |
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July 8, 2021 Back to the Office by Labor Day?While companies and their employees have been enduring workplace closures due to the pandemic for well over a year, most HR teams have been imagining and planning for the physical reopening of their office spaces.Decisions about this significant, symbolic event have been months in the making. HR professionals, working in tandem with their C-suites, have taken into account state and federal guidelines, employee sentiment, the company's bottom line, and the value of inperson employee and customer interactions. |
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July 6, 2021 Study Points to Ways Public Media Could Build Teen and Tween Audience—and Risks of Not TryingA report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop released in May made plain what had already been clear to some for years: Public media isn’t on the radar of many tweens and teens.Researchers for the CPB-backed study arrived at their findings with the help of 50 interviews with participants from 10- to 17- years old. Some of the interviewees’ comments are a gut punch: “I don’t feel like I’m ever gonna really get back into watching TV, but I do know a lot of people aren’t gonna watch PBS anymore, ‘cause it’s mostly Curious George and stuff like that,” said a 14-year-old from Bossier City, Louisiana. “[It’s] little kid shows.” |
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June 22, 2021 FCC Tells Stations to Get Ready as 2021 Brings Biennial Ownership Report RequirementUnder Federal Communications Commission rules, all commercial and noncommercial stations are required to file ownership reports every two years. The rules usually mean that the biennial ownership reports must be filed by December 1 in all odd numbered years. This being one of those years, the Media Bureau said Monday that it will open a filing window for the reports starting October 1. |
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June 21, 2021 How to Build the Next Generation of Public Radio ListenersIf you ask most people to go find a picture of a public radio listener, most would come back with an image of a gray-haired baby boomer. There’s fair justification for that, as boomers have dominated public radio for more than a generation. Yet as the Silent Generation fades into the sunset and Generation X continues just to occupy space, there’s been a radical change in the public radio audience. A surge of new younger listeners have discovered public radio. They’re tuning in often enough to show up in weekly cumes. |
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June 17, 2021 Pandemic Had Lasting, Major Implications for Employer Flexibility, Randstad Survey ShowsHybrid work looks to be "the new norm," Randstad declared in the survey, demonstrating that the pandemic pushed employers to rapidly embrace a change in company culture and expectations. The company's findings align with other surveys that show the move toward hybrid work is underway; a West Monroe poll released in April, for example, showed that 1 in 5 employers is already implementing the method. |
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June 10, 2021 Job Candidates Seek Assurances on Workplace Safety, FlexibilityJob seekers are holding potential employers to higher standards in workplace health and safety efforts, diversity initiatives, and flexible work arrangements in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and social unrest of 2020, according to a recent survey. |
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June 9, 2021 Radio Hits a Bumpy Road in the Car MediascapePerhaps the greatest negative impact that COVID has had on radio, according to Jacob Media’s TechSurvey 2021, has been on AM/FM listening in the automotive mediascape. The short answer as to why might be more time spent at home, and less in cars. It’s more complicated than that, though. Information provided in the recent survey focuses on that. Some of the information seems to contradict. Fasten your seat belt, this could be a rough ride. |
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June 4, 2021 CPB Analysis Finds Steep Declines in Station Underwriting, Foundation FundingRevenues of public television and radio stations declined by $147 million, or 5%, in fiscal year 2020, which included the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, according to CPB’s latest “State of the System” analysis.The steepest losses in fiscal 2020 were in underwriting, foundation funding, and investment income. CPB’s year-to-year analysis charted drops of $66 million, or 14%, in underwriting and $60 million, or 32%, in foundation support from fiscal 2019 to 2020. Investment-related losses totaled $39 million, a 13% decline. |
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May 26, 2021 By Joining Forces, Stations Find New Potential for Boosting Revenue, ContentWhen Vermont PBS and Vermont Public Radio formally join forces in July, the merged station will have the largest staff of any media outlet in the state.It’s a distinction out of reach for some of the biggest public media stations in the country’s largest markets. It’s also a sign to officials at both stations of the impact and reach that public broadcasting can have in a state with fewer than 650,000 people. |
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