- The next CPB Board meeting, Feb. 10, will take directors on a field trip. While the morning session will be at headquarters in Washington, D.C., the board will head to WETA in suburban Arlington, Va., in the afternoon for a look inside PBS NewsHour. Also on the agenda: updates on diversity work, spectrum issues and American Graduate activities.
- If you thought ratings for the Season 4 premiere of Downton Abbey were high, wait until you read these numbers: PBS and WGBH announced Monday that the Jan. 5 Masterpiece episode had an average audience of 15.5 million viewers, 52 percent more than the 10.2 million average audience initially reported in Nielsen Fast National data.
- Legendary comic John Belushi would have celebrated his 65th birthday this month. To mark the occasion, the Chicago Film Archives has released a snippet of Belushi on a proposed pubTV environmental show, Earth Keeping. The program never hit the airwaves, but his quirky tryout lives on.
- Former NPR head Kevin Klose discusses his life in radio, including his years with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as well as NPR’s past and future, in a two-part interview with Radio Prague.