Quick Takes

  • Patrick Goldstein of the L.A. Times says Bill Moyers, who leaves his PBS show at the end of December, “has used Now as a razor-sharp ...
  • “Nearly as splashy, flashy and phantasmagorical as the American art form it celebrates, Broadway: The American Musical is the TV equivalent of a grandly ...
  • Terry Gross tells the Boston Phoenix that interviewing guests by phone makes it less likely she’ll gush. “I’ve learned the hard way that that’s ...
  • “It’s one thing to get knocked off the air by a show that’s better than yours, but it’s another to get knocked ...
  • Mark Glaser sizes up podcasting, satellite radio and other technologies that could shape radio’s future, checking in with Public Radio Exchange to ...
  • A WXXI exec tells the Rochester City News why his station won’t carry Pacifica’s Democracy Now: “On our air, it would be swaying our balance. Our ...
  • A Boston Globe update on WBUR notes that Jane Christo’s son is being moved out of the station and adds some details about the ...
  • Boston University named one of its assistant vice presidents, former TV exec Peter Fiedler, interim g.m. of WBUR.
  • WBUR-FM and its parent, Boston University, share tendencies to overspend and dream too big, says a Boston Globe columnist.
  • Former PBS star Louis Rukeyser, stricken with cancer and absent from his CNBC investment commentary program for nearly a year, says he ...
  • Frontline‘s “The Choice 2004” debuts on PBS stations Oct. 12. Reviewers for the New York Times and the Seattle Times write in today’s editions that, by contrasting ...
  • More coverage of Jane Christo’s resignation in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald and the Providence Journal, and on NPR.
  • The New York Times reviews Postcards from Buster, the new PBS show starring “the sort of character that children understand: perpetually hungry, a little nervous and ...
  • Jane Christo, g.m. of WBUR-FM in Boston, announced her resignation today. Coverage in the Providence Journal and the Boston Phoenix. The Journal also reports that Boston’s WGBH ...
  • Tonight Cleveland’s WVIZ launches a new local series covering topics that viewers in Northeastern Ohio are most concerned about–education, the economy, jobs, ...