Quick Takes
We now pause for a celebrity sighting
OK, Masterpiece “Wallander” fans, here are a few on-location photos of star Kenneth Branagh snapped during filming in Latvia last week. Enjoy.Berenstain Bears to premiere in Lakota language in September
The Lakota version of The Berenstain Bears, Matȟó Waúŋšila Thiwáhe — The Compassionate Bear Family, will debut at 9 a.m. Sept. 11 on South Dakota Public Broadcasting and ...KQED extends offer for pledge-free listening
San Francisco’s KQED Radio will re-launch its pledge-free stream for donors seeking respite from on-air pitches during its fall fundraising drive. Listeners ...ITVS, NCME partnering to bolster Community Cinema engagement
The Independent Television Service and the National Center for Media Engagement are partnering up this fall on ITVS’s tremendously successful Community Cinema ...Board of Education backs governor’s veto of pubcasting money in Florida
The Florida Board of Education, which has purview over public broadcasting, has made it official: For the first time in 35 years, ...A crazy news cycle, captured in Carvin’s tweets and storified by MediaShift
Andy Carvin’s epic weekend of tweeting the Libyan revolution inspired MediaShift to storify a day in the life of NPR’s star Tweeter. ...News collaborations enable “many voices” in pubcasting, Kerger says
The second speaker in ITVS’s short-video series on the future of public media is PBS President Paula Kerger, who calls this a ...MPR’s Eichten announces retirement
Longtime Minnesota Public Radio news host Gary Eichten will retire in January 2012, he announced at the end of his Midday program Monday ...Larry Heileman dies; worked in fundraising at WGBH, WHYY, PBS
Larry Heileman, a longtime public broadcasting fundraiser, died Aug. 18 at Queen Anne Nursing Home in Hingham, Mass., from complications of a ...Channel swapping in Rhode Island
Rhode Island’s WRNI is negotiating a channel-swap deal that would bring its NPR News to the FM dial on 88.1 MHz in ...Moyers outspoken as always in wide-ranging interview
“When representative government has been bought and paid for by the predator class, there’s no easy way to get it back,” says ...PubCamp goes west to California
The first-ever PubCampWest — an informal gathering of media makers, community organizers, and web developers sharing ideas for collaboration in media innovation ...Filmmaker Werner Bundschuh dies in fall; worked at WGBH-TV
Werner Bundschuh, a WGBH alum and documentary filmmaker who co-founded Blackside Inc., which produced the critically acclaimed Eyes on the Prize series, died Friday ...Moyers returning to public television in January with weekly show
Starting in January, veteran newsman Bill Moyers will provide a fully funded, hourlong weekly program — Moyers & Company — to public television stations. ...Genachowski won’t release spectrum model until Congress okays auction
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski says the agency will not release its Allotment Optimization Model (AOM) detailing how it will reconfigure ...
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