Quick Takes
At least the Senate Democrats aren’t cutting CPB’s future funding
Though CPB and many other relatively small federal outlays could get whacked or seriously trimmed in the forthcoming scrum of Supercommittee deficit ...Vermont net raises funds for Hurricane Irene relief
A one-day Vermont Public Radio fundraiser for Hurricane Irene relief Sept. 13 raised more than $628,000 for the Vermont Disaster Relief Fund. ...Ramer, Cahill now heading CPB Board
Bruce Ramer was re-elected chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Board of Directors at its meeting today (Sept. 20) at headquarters ...WPBT2 show wins National Academies honor
“Sentinels of the Seas,” an episode of WPBT2’s Changing Seas, has won a 2011 Communications Award in the Film/Radio/TV category, from the National Academy ...Big MacArthur kudo to Jad Jad Jad Abumrad rad rad
The MacArthur Foundation today publicly confirmed what fans already know: Jad Abumrad, auteur/producer and co-host of WNYC’s Radiolab, is some kinda genius. He ...Link TV announces new c.e.o., former ABC News exec Paul Mason
Nonprofit satellite channel Link TV today (Sept. 20) announced a new c.e.o., former ABC News executive Paul Mason. After 30 years in ...Hearst TV exec to head World channel
Elizabeth Cheng, a Hearst Television executive, is the new general manager for the World channel, WGBH announced today (Sept. 20). Cheng will ...CPB to ask for $451 million for fiscal 2015
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting soon will request $451 million in advance funding for 2015, Tim Isgitt, CPB’s government affairs s.v.p., told ...Blogosphere lashing for NPR report that went straight down the middle
As Jay Rosen sees it, “he said, she said” reporting is a “lame formula” for fact-based news reporting, a method of ...PBS steals big wins from HBO at Primetime Emmys
At the Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday night (Sept. 18), premium cable channel HBO “was beaten up in prestige categories by an unlikely ...Digital Promise finally realized in White House launch
Lawrence Grossman, former PBS president, and Shae Hopkins, executive director of Kentucky Educational Television, are two board members of Digital Promise, the ...FCC extends Common Alerting Protocol deadline into 2012
The Federal Communication Commission released an order today (Sept. 16) that extends the deadline for Emergency Alert System (EAS) participating stations to ...National Book Award finalists to be revealed live on pubradio
Finalists for this year’s National Book Awards will be revealed live on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud, from the new Literary ...WDUQ sale finalized
Essential Public Media has completed its purchase of Pittsburgh’s WDUQ/90.5 FM, reports the local Post-Gazette. The call letters will change to WESA-FM. Under ...WNET going into international distribution business
WNET will distribute its own content internationally beginning at next month’s MIPCOM program marketplace, according to entertainment news site C21. Previously, overseas ...
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