Preserve local service through shared strength.
Our mission is to unite public media stations in a practical, collaborative network that preserves local public broadcasting, strengthens community service, shares high-value programming and expertise, and lowers the cost of operating in an increasingly complex media environment.
We believe local public media survives and grows when stations stop carrying every burden alone. The Cooperative creates a place to share proven ideas, combine resources, modernize operations, and build new services together without sacrificing local identity or community accountability.
Shared work becomes shared momentum.
Station Collaboration
Members exchange operating procedures, lessons learned, vendor experience, planning tools, and success stories that help every station make better decisions.
Content Exchange
Stations identify well-produced local programs with lasting value and make them available for distribution across participating markets.
Shared Expertise
Smaller stations benefit from the collective work of professionals in programming, traffic, business development, promotions, engineering, and digital media.
Modern Operations
Members gain access to new workflows and AI-enhanced management tools designed to reduce repetitive work, licensing costs, and technical overhead.
Boards built around real station needs.
The Cooperative will establish working boards and trustee groups made up of station leaders and subject-matter experts. Each group will focus on practical challenges, measurable savings, and ideas that can be used across the membership.
Programming & Content
Content discovery, rights, scheduling, themed channels, and shared program libraries.
Technology & Operations
Master control, traffic, automation, digital delivery, cybersecurity, and workflow modernization.
Revenue & Business Development
Underwriting, sponsorships, digital revenue, shared services, and sustainable operating models.
Promotion & Community Impact
Audience development, cross-promotion, station branding, local engagement, and public-service outcomes.
TitanAI MCO: a complete media operation on one affordable platform.
Developed in partnership with public media stations, TitanAI MCO is the Cooperative's integrated technology platform for managing traditional broadcast and digital distribution with dramatically lower infrastructure and licensing costs.
The system runs on a single, off-the-shelf consumer-grade PC and combines master control, traffic, scheduling, media management, automation, digital publishing, and AI-enhanced operational tools in one coordinated workflow.
AI-Enhanced Management
Automates repetitive tasks, assists content preparation, and supports leaner station operations.
Lower Licensing Costs
Reduces dependence on separate traffic, digital-service, and remote master-control systems.
Additional Channels
Launches low-cost themed or community channels using shared content and centralized workflows.
New Revenue Formats
Supports underwriting, billboards, sponsor snipes, and corporate branding around specialized content.
More local service without multiplying the cost.
Shared content and coordinated operations give stations room to grow. Members can strengthen their primary service, replace expensive channel models, or launch new themed channels tailored to local audiences.
- Reduce software, staffing, infrastructure, digital-service, and remote master-control expenses.
- Expand program schedules with proven content contributed by member stations.
- Create new underwriting inventory and specialized sponsorship opportunities.
- Share professional knowledge across programming, traffic, promotions, engineering, and business development.
- Preserve each station's local voice while gaining the strength of a national cooperative.
Public media's next chapter should be written together.
Tell us about your station, your challenges, and the resources or ideas you may be able to share. The Cooperative is being built by public media people for public media stations.