Quick Takes
It’s got a pulse
Like Vermont Public Radio’s new weekdaily Vermont Edition, the program’s theme has a bit of the unexpected, the network says. In the MP3 of ...New blog covers Colorado public media
Critics of Colorado Public Radio recently launched the Colorado Public Radio blog, which aims to cover all public and community stations in ...Elmo, Big Bird and other toys recalled
More than a million Chinese-made Mattel/Fisher-Price products, including Sesame Street character toys, are being recalled because their paint may contain toxic levels of lead, ...WYPR “darn close” to blanketing Maryland
Baltimore’s WYPR will extend its service to Maryland’s Eastern shore with the pending purchase of WRXS in Ocean City, a top-40 commercial ...What next for Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal?
Media analysts and writers forecast what will happen now that Rupert Murdoch has succeeded in his quest to buy the Wall Street ...National Archives cuts DVD deal with Amazon
The National Archives announced a non-exclusive agreement to sell digital copies of its historic films on Amazon.com. The first DVDs, a collection ...FCC wants DTV education ideas
The FCC is seeking comment (PDF) on potential digital TV transition consumer education initiatives, the commission announced today. The FCC wants input ...Senators concerned about digital transition
At a hearing yesterday, Senators lamented the government’s puny efforts to educate people about the digital TV transition, reports the Los Angeles ...NPR joins battle over satellite radio merger
The Washington Post reports on why the proposed merger of two “bit players in the media world“–satellite radio companies XM and Sirius–has ...Moyers letter to Ombudsman
Bill Moyers responded to PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler’s July 20th column, which criticized Moyer’s program about impeachment for lacking balance, by writing ...Study: Social media building new connections in pubradio
The effectiveness of social media tools is hard to measure and such efforts don’t yet produce obvious financial rewards, but many pubradio ...APTS digital tv study
The Association of Public Television Stations reports that “older Americans are significantly more likely to receive their television signals over-the-air, and are ...APTS joins mobile DTV group
Public TV’s lobbying group signed on to the Open Mobile Video Coalition, a consortium of broadcast station groups working to establish a ...
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