Public Media Veteran Mark Vogelzang named as New President and CEO of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

The radio and television stations of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network will take part in the first-ever national test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) on Wednesday, November 9 at 2:00 pm.

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Super Thursday” one-day pledge drive raised over $273,000 on donations from 3,152 individuals today.

Citing reduced margins and a need to put scarce resources to their most efficient use, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network announced it is pulling the plug on its annual MPBN Great TV Auction after 40 years.

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network is hoping that an abbreviated but highly publicized radio pledge drive will galvanize enough existing, former and potential first-time donors to pledge as much in donations in a single day as MPBN usually takes a week to raise.

On Thursday, October 20, beginning at 5:00 a.m., MPBN will conduct what it hopes will be the shortest radio membership drive in its history, seeking at least 2,600 individual pledges over 18 hours, either by phone or online through its web site. At prevailing average gift levels, those pledges should generate over $200,000 for the network