Quick Takes
Maine Public Broadcasting pondering role in saving three classical radio stations
Mark Vogelzang, president of Maine Public Broadcasting, told the Bangor Daily News that the pubcaster is following the bankruptcy proceedings of Princeton, N.J.-based Nassau ...‘Education Station’ KLCS in Los Angeles launches first-ever fundraising drive
KLCS-TV in Los Angeles is conducting the first fundraising drive ever in its 40-plus year history, hoping to replace $1.4 million for ...If it’s spring, it’s Great TV Auction time in Milwaukee
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Channel 10 Great TV Auction, now in its 44th year of raising funds for Milwaukee ...State funding cuts trigger layoffs at Virginia’s Community Idea Stations
Virginia’s Community Idea Stations — WCVE Public Radio, WCVE PBS and WCVW PBS in Richmond and WHTJ PBS in Charlottesville — on ...On C-SPAN, ex-FCC official Copps worries over noncom stations in spectrum auction
Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps expresses concern for public TV stations in the upcoming spectrum auctions, in an interview on The Communicators series on ...POV offering Twitter chat on producing for pubTV
Want to get your documentary on public television? POV Series Producer Yance Ford will be on Twitter at 7 p.m. Eastern April 25 ...Barbra Streisand rings up “Smiley & West”
Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, co-hosts of PRI’s Smiley & West, hear from a surprising caller on their Friday (April 20) show: Music legend ...“Martha Stewart’s Cooking School” starting on PBS this fall
Domestic doyenne Martha Stewart hits the PBS airwaves this fall in a weekly culinary master class, Martha Stewart’s Cooking School. The 30-minute show will ...WETA to offer 24/7 British channel starting this June
WETA in suburban Washington, D.C., on June 2 will launch a new multicast channel devoted to British programming. The 24-hour WETA UK ...Localore, now on Facebook
The Association of Independents in Radio has created a Facebook page to showcase projects in its $2 million Localore initiative (Current, Jan. 30), ...American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects Woodruff, Wilson as fellows
PBS NewsHour Senior Correspondent Judy Woodruff and Ernest Wilson III, former CPB chair, have been been elected to the American Academy of Arts and ...V-me pulls sponsorship spots to review noncom content
Alvaro Garnica, general manager of the V-me Spanish multicast channel on pubTV, recently informed station managers that it replaced all sponsor spots ...Public Media Company, Independent Public Media finalists to buy San Mateo’s KCSM-TV
The two remaining finalists bidding for KCSM, public TV in San Mateo, Calif., are local groups affiliated with Independent Public Media and ...Veteran KCUR broadcaster Walt Bodine, 91, retiring this month
A public radio legend in Kansas City, Mo., is retiring at the end of the month. Walt Bodine, 91, has spent 72 ...Stanley Harrison dies at 81; headed communications at CPB
Stanley Harrison, a former communications director for CPB, died of cardiac arrest after a stroke on April 5 in Miami Beach, Fla. ...
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