Ball State Public Media

Ball State Public Media is the public media service of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. It serves East Central Indiana with programming from PBS, national and world news from NPR, and independent local journalism through two brands, Ball State PBS and Indiana Public Radio. It is part of the university's College of Communication, Information, and Media, and its general manager also serves as the college's Assistant Dean of Media.

Ball State PBS, licensed as WIPB-TV in Muncie, went on the air on October 31, 1971, after a group of Muncie residents formed Eastern Indiana Community Television to give the city its own PBS station. The station works from the E.F. Ball Communication Building on the Ball State campus, with multiple studios and its own remote production truck, which it uses for its own productions and rents to production companies and other television stations.

Indiana Public Radio grew from WBST, which went on the air from Ball State in 1960 and became an NPR member station in 1980. Since 1998 it has operated as a network, with stations licensed in Muncie, Anderson, Marion and Hagerstown. Ball State Public Media also runs the Public Media Accelerator, an experiential learning program that brings Ball State students into its newsroom and productions.

Ball State Public Media hires for television production, news, membership and fundraising, events and station leadership. Its staff are Ball State University employees, and openings are posted on the university's careers site.