Quick Takes
NewsWorks going strong after one year
Here’s a look back over the first year of NewsWorks, WHYY’s ambitious hyperlocal news site for northwest Philly. It was the station’s ...Roger Ebert says show needs a funding “angel,” or will end soon
“Unless we find an angel, our television program will go off the air at the end of its current season,” writes Roger ...Challenging times for PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour is navigating troubled waters, the New York Times reports. The show’s main corporate underwriter, Chevron, is departing at the end of the year, taking ...Romney cites CPB as target for “deep reductions in subsidies”
In a column in USA Today, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney vows to “enact deep reductions in the subsidies” for entities including the National ...Harmon retiring at Public Radio Capital; Ikeda will succeed her
Susan Harmon, a career-long public radio leader and one of Public Radio Capital’s two managing directors, will retire from the position Dec. ...Austin City Limits to stream live on PBS Facebook
Austin City Limits will present a live stream of its Friday night (Nov. 4) show on PBS Facebook — a first for both ACL and ...New Connecticut pubTV channel is all sports, all the time
Connecticut Public Television this month kicks off a 24/7 sports channel running high school, college and other sporting events throughout the state. ...NewsHour’s David Chalian will head Yahoo News D.C. bureau
Yahoo News is reporting that it has hired PBS NewsHour’s political editor, David Chalian, as its Washington bureau chief. Chalian came to NewsHour in July ...Pubcasters sign on with new Future of TV Coalition
Several pubcasting groups are part of the new Future of TV Coalition, just announced by the National Association of Broadcasters, which “unites ...Audie Cornish to host ATC for upcoming election year
NPR announced today (Nov. 2) that Audie Cornish will spend one year as co-host of All Things Considered, as Michele Norris steps down while ...It’s bluegrass, in a 333-foot-deep cave, on PBS
Bluegrass Underground, the unique public TV show recorded live 333 feet below ground at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville, Tenn., has caught the attention of ...Back to the drawing board for WBEZ’s “Eight Forty-Eight”?
As Chicago’s WBEZ works on plans to double its output of original local news programming, proposed scenarios for scaling up production have ...State legislator wants to phase out all funding to Oklahoma Network
Funding for OETA — The Oklahoma Network is in a state lawmaker’s bulls-eye for elimination. Rep. Leslie Osborn (R-Tuttle) said she will ...Editorial Integrity group examining transparency in pubmedia
Could transparency become as important as objectivity in public media newsgathering? That was part of the discussion last week when a group ...White House nominates two for FCC vacancies
President Obama has nominated Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel to serve on the Federal Communications Commission. “Filling one Republican vacancy and one ...
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