Quick Takes
FCC spectrum workshop addresses timing, compensation, repacking, more
The FCC’s first spectrum auction workshop for broadcasters, Oct. 26 at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., covered a wide range of concerns ...Fajardo exits as WMFE converts into a radio-only outlet
After five years as president of Orlando’s WMFE, the Florida pubcasting outlet that completed the sale of its TV station last month, ...NHPTV’s academic quiz show returns, with new sponsors
Granite State Challenge, the longtime academic quiz show from New Hampshire Public Television, is returning to the airwaves after a yearlong hiatus due to ...MMG honors WFYI’s Wright; elects new board leadership, members
Public television’s Major Market Group has presented its 2012 William Kobin Public Television Leadership Award to Lloyd Wright, president of WFYI Public ...Modern midwives speak out in Detroit PTV blog inspired by Call the Midwives
Detroit Public Television has created a blog, Modern Day Midwives, to take an updated look at the nursing services that are the ...Yu named chief exec of Dayton’s WDPR
Shaun Yu, interim co-manager of Classical 88.1 WDPR in Dayton, Ohio, has been appointed president and c.e.o. by the station’s board of ...Attorneys craft abbreviated advisory for FCC’s spectrum NPRM
Telecom attorneys Scott Flick and Paul Cicelski of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman have pored over the FCC’s massive Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ...Knight grant turns podcast segment into online video
Today marks the premiere of the video “The Emperor’s New Onesie,” based on an excerpt from pubradio producer Hillary Frank’s blog and ...Lloyd Mintzmyer dies in car crash; was chief engineer at Smoky Hills PTV
Lloyd Mintzmyer, the founding chief engineer at Smoky Hills Public Television in Bunker Hill, Kan., died in an automobile accident Oct. 14 ...Three nonprofit news orgs join forces on Beyond November project
Here’s a look at the nuts-and-bolts behind Beyond November, a three-way election coverage collaboration among St. Louis Public Radio, Nine Network of ...Smiley fires back at WBEZ’s cancellation of Smiley & West
Tavis Smiley has posted a scathing letter he emailed to Torey Malatia, president of Chicago Public Radio, in response to the station ...William Friday dies at 92; hosted UNC-TV’s North Carolina People for 41 years
William Friday, a past president of University of North Carolina and longtime host of North Carolina People with William Friday on UNC-TV, died Oct. ...Whad’Ya Know? hires new announcer
The popular pubradio quiz show Whad’Ya Know? has selected a successor to longtime announcer Jim Packard, who died in June. Sara Nics is joining the ...Mary Pruess resigns as president, g.m., of South Bend’s WNIT
Mary Pruess, president and g.m. of WNIT Public Television in South Bend, Ind., has resigned from the station “to pursue other opportunities,” ...Ken Burns, defending PBS in USA Today, pits Reagan’s words against Romney’s
PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose extensive credits include The Civil War, Baseball and the upcoming The Dust Bowl, authored an editorial in Tuesday’s USA Today in which he ...
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