Quick Takes
Queen Curley reigns over creative kingdom in NPT award nomination photo
Nashville Public Television was a finalist for a local Bowtie Award for Best Workplace Environment, the Arts and Business Council of Greater ...Former PBS station WDSC to become college Center of Interactive Media
The Daytona (Fla.) State College Board of Trustees on Thursday (Feb. 16) unanimously approved changing WDSC, its former PBS member station, into ...Oklahoma bill to kill pubcasting funding withdrawn
A bill that would have ended funding to public broadcasting in Oklahoma failed to make it out of a House subcommittee and ...No blatant self-inflation on this premise, please
Randy Cohen, an Emmy-winning comedy writer and past author of “The Ethicist” column in the New York Times Magazine, starts a monthly public radio ...There’s good and bad news in indie online journalism, J-Lab reports
J-Lab, which advocates for new approaches to journalism, has posted an update on independent online news efforts. “We’re entering a period where ...The Moth, and Center for Investigative Reporting, win MacArthur grants
Two public media entities are recipients of MacArthur Foundation Awards for Creative and Effective Institutions, announced today (Feb. 16). The Center for ...First tablet launch for NPR Music? The iPad, of course!
The latest app from NPR’s digital team brings NPR Music to Apple’s iPad, and it’s now available for free download from the ...Michigan city official can’t sell LPFM license on eBay
A city official in Benton Harbor, Mich., has abandoned his efforts to sell the license to the city’s low-power FM radio station ...Public radio listeners more satisfied with stations than most, study finds
A phone survey of radio listeners in the U.S. this month found that public radio listeners are more satisfied with their stations ...Aereo to offer online subscriptions to over-the-air signals, including PBS
In 2010, a Seattle start-up called ivi attempted to sell online access to 28 encrypted broadcast signals, including public TV stations, without ...KUSC producer travels to Venezuela with L.A. Philharmonic, blogging all the way
Brian Lauritzen, producer and host at Los Angeles classical music pubradio giant KUSC-FM, is venturing far and wide in order to cover ...KCET launches arts series, adds eight “Land of Sunshine” local bloggers
KCET is launching a new arts series next month, Open Call, hosted by international operatic mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzmàn, showcasing cultural institutions and other groups ...Classical South Florida to extend its signal west
Miami-based Classical South Florida is expanding its service to the state’s western coast with the $4.35 million purchase of WAYJ 88.7 ...WPR host develops one-man show on image of Native Americans
Richie Plass, one of two hosts of Kalihwiyo’se on Wisconsin Public Radio, has developed a unique one-man show on the image of Native ...Reid returns with another healthcare doc
Journalist T.R. Reid, who parted ways with Frontline following a very public dustup over a controversial healthcare documentary nearly three years ago (Current, April ...
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